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Crave Talk: Not checking out Google Checkout

Crave So I, for one, won't be checking out Google Checkout. You name it, Google's done it. Last week, it expanded into what must have been one of the few remaining un-Googled areas, with the launch of Google Checkout.

Tags: google, stores, government, consumers

6 July 2006, 15:06

Toshiba 27WL56: Checking us into rehab

Crave If there was a charity to help us kick our addiction to flat screen TVs, we'd sign up now. LCD-aholics Anonymous might help us remember what a CRT actually looks like. Companies like Philips, Sony and now Toshiba have been feeding our addiction...

Tags: toshiba, input, lcd, carry

25 July 2005, 11:59

Photos: Hands-on with Commodore's new Gravels

Crave This petite music and video player is set to come out in the next couple of weeks and we were fortunate to get a hands-on with it out here at CeBIT, as well as checking out some of Commodore's other new kit.

16 March 2007, 12:12

Nokia N95 vs Apple, Canon, HP, Motorola and TomTom

Crave If you're looking for something to read your Outlook emails on then the iPaq hx2790 is probably worth checking out, but PDAs are a dying technology, particularly when you take into account connectivity options.

Tags: nokia, checking, canon, connectivity

23 April 2007, 15:32

Photos: Crave pays the BBC's R&D department a visit

Crave You can see an oscilloscope and laptop used for checking the signal quality, as well as a TV for checking the picture visually. We recently looked at a BBC R&D white paper about using MIMO to transmit high-definition TV using the space left over...

10 July 2007, 13:14

Toshiba Portege R500: The lightest laptop ever?

Crave We've just spent the morning checking out the Toshiba Portege R500 -- a laptop that Toshiba believes is the lightest in the world. Ever. It's so light, in fact, that Toshiba has asked feted explorer David Hempleman-Adams to carry it on a world...

Tags: toshiba, inch, weight, hard drive

22 June 2007, 11:15

Asus PW201: Shiny happy TFT

Crave There's a 1.3-megapixel camera at the top of the screen for video conferencing or taking self-portraits (yet another way of checking yourself out), and the stand lets you pivot, rotate and adjust the screen's height.

Tags: asus, anti, buttons, reflection

7 July 2006, 12:20

Mio C250: Cheap sat-nav, great Christmas gift

Crave Overall, we were impressed with its price and feature set -- this is definitely worth checking out if you fancy getting yourself or somebody else a gadget as a gift. Are your friends or family members useless with directions?

Tags: mio, family, interest, car

22 November 2006, 10:36

Why can't I: Get real-time bus information online?

Crave Every Brit loves to complain about the unreliability of train services, but you can cut down long waits by checking National Rail Enquiries' live departure boards. Equally, flights can be horribly late, which can be a pain if you've arranged to...

Tags: tracking, waiting, stops, bus

20 June 2006, 15:30

Podcasting genius: iTunes 4.9

Crave We've downloaded the new edition and spent the morning checking out what this software is capable of. Two days after its launch and iTunes 4.9 has racked up over one million podcast subscriptions already.

Tags: apple uk, itunes, downloaded, edition

1 July 2005, 11:23

Ten-year-old Apple Newton beats latest Windows UMPC

Crave Find out why by checking out the blow-by-blow account here. We pitted the Apple Newton Messagepad against the latest Samsung Q1 ultra-mobile PC (Origami project), and -- despite being a decade old -- the Newton won.

Tags: ultra, samsung, decade, newton

27 July 2006, 17:53

Crave gets excited about mobile phones at CES

Crave Shortly after we come back from the Christmas holidays, Crave is heading off to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and we're especially looking forward to checking out some of the hottest mobile phones of next year.

Tags: megapixel, iphone, jack, ces

18 December 2006, 13:52

The power of the atom ticks down to Argos

Crave Despite adjusting our clocks, watches, phones, cameras, MP3 players and central heating timers, and checking our computers, digital radios and PVRs, we can't help feeling that there's an out-of-sync gadget lurking somewhere, just waiting to trip...

Tags: clock, radio, clocks, sync

1 April 2005, 16:48

Haier Elegance: Listen, don't swallow

Crave If you lack pocket space then it's worth checking out. The Haier Elegance might look like a giant pill, but it's actually a very small phone. This handset is so small that when we put it in our pocket, it moved around as we walked.

Tags: usb, elegance, mini, bluetooth

6 June 2007, 11:35

Seven days of Vista -- day 4: Stacking and filtering

Crave Today we're checking out how the new OS, due on 30 January, can help you locate your files. We're four days into our hands-on with the final version of Windows Vista and all is well. All that is, apart from the Mac users in our office trying to...

Tags: microsoft, windows vista, vista, details

26 January 2007, 11:19