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CNET.co.uk has 63 stories on downloading
Q&A: Is Nokia Comes With Music a good deal?
Crave You can then start downloading as much music as you like on to your PC for free and then transfer it to your phone. You're also locked to one PC for downloading music. You buy a CWM phone and you get to download as much music as you like for a year.
Tags: nokia, downloading, listen, pcs
3 October 2008, 13:28
Crave Talk: What does your bit rate say about you?
Crave You don't use Limewire for downloading music. But you may have started downloading free music back when Napster was in its original illegal P2P form, and you may currently be a Limewire user, having never heard of or felt the need to understand...
Tags: rip, downloaded, listen, hard disk
8 May 2007, 12:13
Card games: iTunes' band freebies
Crave When a band you like hands you a card, you can type the card's unique code into iTunes and get downloading their tracks straightaway. We managed to fleece one of these as well and have been busy downloading a selection of the festival's finest...
Tags: apple uk, tracks, hands, cards
15 July 2005, 11:33
Xbox 360 update: New features galore
Crave There's also a low-power mode for downloading game demos and video content. The Xbox will shut its fans off while downloading, then when finished it will fully shut down. First of all, you'll be able to watch videos that are still downloading, so...
Tags: microsoft, xvid, downloading, profile
11 April 2007, 11:40
Crave Talk: Channel 4's 4oD hamstrung by UK ISPs
Crave Packet shaping examines what you're downloading -- or more specifically, how you're downloading -- and restricts your download speed to about 12kbps, which is little over what was possible on an old dial-up connection.
Tags: broadband, demand, connection, downloading
22 May 2007, 10:50
BBC iPlayer: Auntie launches the public beta of its IPTV app
Crave Downloading something is no harder than clicking a link and waiting for the file to transfer. It's far less hassle to just set the PVR to record Top Gear than it is to mess about for ages downloading a DRM-crippled low bit rate WMV file that only...
Tags: error, problems, beta, waiting
27 July 2007, 13:07
What does the future hold for BBC iPlayer?
Crave But of course, that's not going to please the ISPs, who are already close to tears about people downloading things.It's not clear what offends the ISPs most -- we know that streaming has many, many more users than the download service.
Tags: hd, downloading, bandwidth, streaming
10 April 2008, 12:40
Michael Bay: 'HD DVD vs Blu-ray is a Microsoft conspiracy'
Crave Microsoft does support downloading as the media distribution of the future -- so does Apple of course, but Bay doesn't mention that, possibly because it's a Blu-ray backer. And we think movie downloading has a future too, but we're some way off the...
Tags: hd, downloading, disc, ray
5 December 2007, 10:44
Nokia Comes With Music: Truly unlimited downloads?
Crave Customers will be subject to either data charges per song, or the network will provide a limited amount of data usable by the service in any given month -- even if Nokia offers truly unlimited downloads, it's highly unlikely the networks will...
Tags: nokia, universal, unlimited, downloading
4 December 2007, 11:09
Real Life: From zero to De Niro with LoveFilm
Crave I start downloading it again and regularly check my laptop over the next few hours to check that it downloads properly. The film has finished downloading. This is great news for movie fans, who today have only a few options if they want to download...
Tags: media player, film, clicking, laptop
22 June 2006, 11:21
We7.com: An ad with every free track
Crave Feel free to try the service for yourself, but don't waste your time in thinking this is going to do anything positive to the industry, let alone "provide a direct route for bands and fans to form even closer relationships" -- that's what happens...
1 May 2007, 11:48
Best plug-ins for Firefox 3
Crave Download Statusbar is a tool we use at work for discovering the absolute URL for files that we're downloading. It opens a second status bar when you begin downloading a file, and lets you manage the download via context menu options.
Tags: bookmarks, downloading, add ons, ons
18 June 2008, 12:30
Gamers fight back against Spore copy protection
Crave But in this case, it seems to have had the opposite effect, angering would-be buyers and DRM opponents to such a degree that they are illegally downloading it en masse, apparently to make a statement as much as to get their hands on the game.
Tags: itunes, arts, downloaded, electronic
15 September 2008, 10:56
Best of the forums this week: Why Earth hasn't imploded
Crave Downloading musicPokeh offers up his reasons for still buying CDs in this downloading age. As if all the iTunes news this week wasn't enough, our forums have been burning with musical discussion with the fury of a thousand suns.
Tags: physics, hole, drm, steve jobs
15 September 2008, 11:23
N-Gage platform launched: All your phones are belong to us
Crave Downloading games is possible via your mobile's over-the-air data connection, such as 3G or Wi-Fi -- be warned that you may be charged data for downloading games over a mobile network, depending on what kind of contract you're on.
Tags: platform, playing, air, gaming
7 April 2008, 15:44
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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