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How will Freeview HD work?

Crave It seems likely that Channel 4 will bid for one, because it already has an HD channel running.ITV and Five are less likely to be interested to start with, but Five has a large portfolio of acquired HD content (US shows such as CSI and NCIS, and...

Tags: channel, channels, bandwidth, sky

8 April 2008, 13:19

Google patent could spark network bidding war

Crave Google has filed a patent for mobile phones that could make various network operators bid against one another for each call or data session initiated by the user. The patent, which was filed in March 2007 but was only published by the US Patent...

Tags: published, session, locked, portable

30 September 2008, 9:14

RelacON: Rub-a-dub-dub, an iPod in a tub

Crave Gone are the days when dropping your hi-fi in the bath could only be interpreted as a suicide bid: now it's the height of fashion. The RelacON is an iPod amp and speaker combo that works at up to 10m underwater without any risk of frying you alive.

Tags: pop, water, bath, fi

24 October 2006, 10:53

LG 100-inch LCD TV: It's the big'un

Crave In a bid that would have had the late Roy Castle reaching for his trumpet and parping an impromptu performance of Dedication's What You Need, LG has entered the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 with the world's largest LCD TV.

Tags: screens, inch, lcd, plasma

20 October 2006, 11:11

Mio C250: Cheap sat-nav, great Christmas gift

Crave Are you tired of trying to describe nearby landmarks in a bid to get them to where you are? Are your friends or family members useless with directions? You might want to get your disoriented visitors a sat-nav for Christmas.

Tags: mio, family, interest, car

22 November 2006, 10:36

Not just HD Ready, but Ready for HD

Crave It's a fantastic service that offers a bunch of decent channels (and bid-up tv) for nothing but the cost of the box and a TV licence. Here at Crave we love Freeview. But we can still see room for improvement.

Tags: definition, high definition, mobile phone, hd

25 April 2007, 11:23

RSPCAibo says, "Bring back the robodog!"

Crave Following Sony's announcement last week that Aibo will be put down, angry protesters have gathered their forces across the Internet in a desperate bid to convince Sony to reverse its decision on the fate of the electronic dog.

Tags: sony, company, fans, events

3 February 2006, 14:00

Hell's Angel: Demonite OverXtreme

Crave This Demonite is London after winning the Olympic bid: fast, determined and slightly drunk with exuberance. Upgrading from a two-year-old Dell with genuine coffee-stained patina to the Demonite OverXtreme SLI would be an experience bordering on the...

Tags: released, frame, environment, fire

7 July 2005, 10:14

Logitech Z-5450: Wireless THX speakers

Crave You Hoover the carpet in preparation, put your lucky Y-fronts out to air, and hurriedly install an expensive surround-sound speaker system in a bid to set the mood. Picture the scene: you've been stalking your St.

Tags: logitech, speaker, trip, speaker system

13 February 2006, 10:42

CNET UK Podcast 110: Yahoo goes begging to Microsoft

Crave In this week's news, we laughed at the misfortune of Yahoo, which not so very long ago was rejecting a very generous Microsoft bid, but is now suggesting that Redmond might like to consider another offer.

7 November 2008, 14:58

Hi-def over Freeview? The BBC has a cunning plan

Crave So if we want hi-def via Freeview, what do we do that doesn't involve storming bid-up tv and forcing it off the air? Now the era of the flat panel has arrived, we're all falling in love with high-definition video.

Tags: bandwidth, air, high definition, channels

24 April 2007, 11:59

Yahoo CEO says 'time is right' for new leader

Crave For Yahoo, that dealt a blow to its plans to generate as much as $800 million in additional revenue, and had served as a cornerstone to ward off an earlier unsolicited buyout bid by Microsoft and later a search-only hybrid offer.

Tags: yahoo, continue, deal, advertising

19 November 2008, 10:12

Synchrotech CFMulti: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi for dSLRs

Crave Tell that to currently not-doing-so-well SanDisk, presently locked in a handbags-at-ten-paces takeover bid from Samsung. We love the sound of Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD cards, and we can't wait for them to cross the pond.

Tags: eye-fi, wi fi, eye, cards

22 October 2008, 11:05

Speedball 2 -- Brutal Deluxe: Mobile mayhem

Crave However, unlike games in which fouling is punished, this game encourages you to beat up and fight your opponents in a bid to take the ball off them. While Crave was lost in a storm of products, an email was sent to us regarding somebody's love of a...

Tags: crave, ball, deluxe, metal

24 May 2006, 11:06

Analogue spectrum sale: Anyone want to go twos-up?

Crave What that probably means is that TV companies won't bid and the whole lot will end up being used by mobile phone companies to push TV to phones or other wireless services that no one asked for. You know how rubbish TV can be, right?

Tags: channel, companies, analogue, spectrum

11 June 2008, 11:26