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Slingbox makes its UK debut

Crave The Slingbox has arrived in the UK and has just been awarded Crave's unofficial title of 'best thing ever'. Forget the Noxon 2 Audio, this is huge. The concept is simple: it lets you watch what's on your home television set from any Internet...

Tags: sling media, connected, watch, weekend

30 May 2006, 12:31

Round-up: PCs and laptops at CES

Crave Justin Jaffe saw Sony debut two new dual-core notebooks, the high-end VAIO FE series, and the thin-and-light SZ series. According to Rich Brown, this PC comes with an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 processor clocked at 4.26GHz, but more...

Tags: intel, core, inch, dell

9 January 2006, 11:47

Blu Monday: Hitachi touting world's first Blu-ray camcorder?

Crave Rumour is building that Hitachi will be first to debut a Blu-ray video camera, with pictures of mock-ups circulating on the Interweb and a 2007 launch apparently on the cards. Official information is still hazy (and mostly in Japanese) -- so don't...

Tags: hitachi, japanese, hd, disc

23 July 2007, 13:03

The IT Crowd: the geeks are taking over

Crave Geeks are clearly the target audience du jour for the UK's sitcom producers, with the recent BBC 2 debut of 'The Office in space' sci-fi series Hyperdrive and the heavily trailed The IT Crowd on Channel 4.

Tags: channel, episode, crowd, ted

25 January 2006, 17:05

DG Web Shop: DRM-free classicals courtesy of... Universal?

Crave One of the most notable DRM-free ventures this year (after the launches of iTunes Plus and 7Digital's unsheathed offerings) was AmazonMP3's debut, which included not only EMI's DRM-free catalogue, but also DRM-free portions of Universal's.

Tags: universal, shop, store, titles

28 November 2007, 9:39

Car Tech: Ford Focus 'Facelift' and the haunted sat-nav

Crave Britain's perennial bestseller has quietly been impressing critics since its 1998 debut, but even its staunchest supporters admit it's started to show its age. There are three certainties in this world: death, taxes and owning a Ford Focus hatchback.

25 March 2008, 16:33

Fujifilm FinePix F100fd: 100 not out

Crave We've been keen on the low-light performance of the F31, F40fd, and F50fd, so we're excited about the debut of this 12-megapixel compact. It's nearly time for PMA, and the next of the current rash of camera announcements to catch our wanderin' eye...

Tags: fujifilm, face, detection, eye

29 January 2008, 16:28

Losing its edge: mobiBLU Cube 2

Crave A year on from the Cube's debut, mobiBLU has finally got this shape nailed. In an age where excess blubber is airbrushed from the covers of leading fashion magazines, and models' teeth decay slowly from the purging of dreaded fat, mobiBLU is...

Tags: mobiblu, date, cube, sub

24 April 2006, 11:27

Planet CNET episode four: Technology and fashion collide

Crave The French office tell us all about a French special effects studio we can't spell the name of, and CNET Germany makes its debut with a hands-on of one of the hottest mobiles at the moment, the HTC Touch Diamond.

6 June 2008, 14:57

Macworld San Francisco: What to expect from Lord Jobs

Crave We also expect the iTV to make a full-scale debut, with its real name revealed. Some call him a god, others a visionary, but for all his charisma Apple high priest Steve Jobs is a human -- he does not have wings, and nor does he have a magic pony.

Tags: apple, mac os, jobs, steve jobs

5 January 2007, 9:59

Canon EOS 400D: Another SLR hits the 10-megapixel mark

Crave The most significant new feature is the EOS Integrated Cleaning System, which makes its debut in the EOS 400D. With Sony launching the 10.2-megapixel Alpha DSLR-A100 and Nikon announcing the 10.2-megapixel D80, Canon's 8.0-megapixel EOS 350D and...

Tags: canon, resolution, remove, megapixel

24 August 2006, 18:15

Civilization IV: Reinventing the entire bloody car

Crave In fact, while doing away with some of the duller management tasks, Civ addicts have been given lashings of new things to do -- religion makes its proper Civ debut, and Civ III's heroes have been upgraded to a variety of great citizens.

Tags: iv, civilization, meier, sid meier

10 November 2005, 16:23

Flickr puts new features on the map

Crave Before these features debut, it's worth taking a look at the Flickr page where people cleverer than us humble Cravers have built on Flickr's public API to create some snazzy extra features for the site.

Tags: flickr, places, tags, weather

19 November 2007, 10:42

Fujifilm FinePix F60fd: 0-60 in 12 megapixels

Crave But the F60's trump card will probably be the debut of face detection 3.0. Fujifilm has followed the popular F50fd with the new FinePix F60fd. It's an incremental upgrade to the popular F50fd, slotting into the range below the disappointing F100fd.

14 August 2008, 10:22

Photos from CES Unveiled: Vegas' opening night

Crave This particular dock is the Vestalife Ladybug, making its debut at CES. Crave was there, braving the enormous queue and assembled throng, and elbowing our way to the front of each stand. We barely got out with our clothes still on, but we did...

6 January 2008, 9:34