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Logitech targets the other ten per cent with left-handed mouse
Crave The new mouse has ten buttons, probably because its right-handed predecessor had ten buttons, but southpaws can treat them as a symbolic representation of the ten per cent (roughly) of the population that favours their left hand.
Tags: logitech, buttons, mouse, hand
9 March 2006, 8:00
Nvidia Triple SLI: 50 per cent more pointless?
Crave Remember the quad-SLI XPS Renegade PC doing the rounds a couple of years ago? It used four graphics cards, which prompted many to think quad-SLI was the future of gaming. But things never panned out that way.
Tags: resolution, cards, pixels, quad
7 November 2007, 10:38
Hands-on with the Casio Exilim EX-Z100: 100 per cent class
Crave You've got to hand it to Casio at the moment. Not content with debuting the frankly astonishing EX-F1 at CES 2008, our friends in Tokyo have backed up their 60fps machine-gun of a camera with a range of compacts that put the class in, er, Casio.
Tags: casio, scene, shot, zoom
17 March 2008, 11:23
Crave Talk: Is the mobile phone killing tech?
Crave According to figures produced by M: Metrics, 40 per cent of UK mobile phone users own a music phone. What's really interesting about this new research is that 31 per cent of those who use both a music phone and a digital music player in the US...
Tags: cent, mobile phones, mobile phone, standalone
26 March 2007, 12:08
Help others by recycling your phone
Crave According to Telephia's Q1 2006 European Subscriber and Device Report, 27 per cent of mobile phone users in Europe replace their mobile phone every year, and 60 per cent do so every two years. But 75 per cent of units shipped to Nigeria cannot be...
Tags: gadgets, cent, europe, mobile phones
21 November 2006, 12:51
Nokia 3110 Evolve: Nokia gets recycling
Crave SmartPlanet: Nokia is the latest in a long line of companies to 'commit' to going green, but the mobile phone giant has backed up its pledge with a new handset -- the 3110 Evolve -- that has casing composed of 50 per cent recycled material and...
Tags: nokia, material, cent, handset
6 December 2007, 9:00
Are you going to have Christmas in high definition?
Crave This means that nearly 10 per cent of all households will be HD Ready, compared to 2 per cent at the beginning of 2006. Is it going to be a high-definition Christmas for you? By the end of this year there will be 2.4 million HD Ready TVs in UK...
Tags: hd, christmas, enabled, ray
3 November 2006, 11:02
DRM-free music downloads outselling DRM by four to one
Crave We told you so.Not only that, but sales of complete albums account for 70 per cent of downloads by value -- an interesting contrast to the opinion that ad hoc downloading lets customers just pick their favourite tracks from albums.
Tags: labels, albums, tracks, sales
8 November 2007, 11:46
Camera costs to go crazy in Europe?
Crave Currently, there's a European Commission-imposed 4.9 per cent import tariff on camcorders, but not on cameras, whatever their video-recording abilities. Profits on cameras are sliced ultra-fine as it is, so an extra 5 per cent on the price is going...
Tags: cameras, cent, resolution, manufacturers
20 July 2007, 12:19
Crave Talk: Is Wi-Fi the 21st century plague?
Crave Will the fact it's used in 70 per cent of British schools give rise to a nation of cancer-ridden teenagers? As to the WHO's 3 per cent stat, there are 200 people in our Wi-Fi saturated office and six people are not experiencing headaches.
Tags: fi, children, wi fi, health
21 May 2007, 13:05
UK broadcaster axes DAB stations: Is digital radio doomed?
Crave Last September, the British trade body DRDB -- Digital Radio Development Bureau -- forecast (.pdf) household DAB penetration to hit 40 per cent by 2009, and almost 60 per cent by 2011. British commercial radio company GCap Media has decided to axe...
Tags: pure digital, demand, stations, cent
12 February 2008, 10:56
Samsung threatens to abandon the laptop market
Crave Hong, the senior manager of overseas sales and marketing for the company's computer division, said an extra 11 million units must be sold worldwide by the year 2011 in order to reach per cent market share -- a massive ask, considering Samsung's...
Tags: samsung, sony, market, laptop
14 May 2008, 13:57
Core 2 Duo Vs. Core Duo: Merom and Yonah square off
Crave Intel says they are up to 20 per cent faster than the current crop of mobile chips, but are they really as good as it makes out? The Core 2 Duo was around 5 per cent quicker, which isn't worth writing home about.
Tags: intel, laptops, core, processor
8 September 2006, 10:18
Dell Studio Hybrid: Low-cost, low-power and made of bamboo
Crave It's slightly fatter than the Mac Mini, but at 197mm tall (without the stand) by 72mm wide by 212mm deep, it's still -- according to Dell -- around 80 per cent smaller than an average desktop PC. If its calculations are right, the Studio Hybrid...
Tags: colours, cent, dell, intel
29 July 2008, 13:18
Lenovo ThinkCenter A61e: Green midget
Crave The A61e (and its packaging) is made from 90 per cent reusable or recyclable materials. It uses a lowish voltage AMD Athlon X2 dual-core or Sempron single-core CPU, 1 GB of RAM, an ATI X1200 graphics card and an 85 per cent efficient power supply.
Tags: lenovo, cent, core, mother nature
23 October 2007, 13:00


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