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Photos: Asus G71V quad-core laptop

Crave Here, you can also see a four-pin FireWire port, a memory card reader and a 2x Blu-ray writer. Yesterday, the boys and girls of Asus sent us the G71V gaming laptop, and it wasn't long before we were drooling everywhere.

4 December 2008, 12:08

Internet: The Movie!

Crave T-shirts and lunchboxes for the girls.Pin-up calendars and uncut DVDs for the boys.Branded chocolate mousse for the dads. Hooray for Hollywood, that screwy balleyhooey Hol-ly-wood. Oh hello there. Here at Crave Towers, we've been inspired by the...

3 December 2008, 15:58

Photos: Tesla Motors' new electric roadster

Crave The Tesla has a plug-in port on its rear cabin pillar, accommodating a special three-pin plug. We got a chance to test drive one fitted with version 1.5 of the power train. This new power train eliminates the two-speed gearbox from the originally...

26 November 2008, 11:26

Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Zune for Windows Mobile

Crave Microsoft has indicated for some time that it sees a Zune future in the mobile phone arena, but the company has been hard to pin down on just what its plans there are. There would seem to be two main scenarios -- the rumoured ZunePhone, or just...

Tags: zune, hardware, zune software, moment

3 October 2008, 9:22

Photos: Asus G50 Republic of Gamers laptop

Crave The left side of the laptop is home to a D-Sub video output port, two USBs, a four-pin FireWire port, HDMI output and a memory card reader. There's an unwritten law that gaming laptops have to be hella ugly, or at the very least garish enough to...

29 September 2008, 14:38

Photos: Asus N50V laptop takes leaf from HP's book

Crave The left side of the N50V is home to Ethernet, D-Sub, HDMI, two USB ports, four-pin FireWire, ExpressCard slot and a 4-in-1 card reader. Crave had an awkward run-in with the postman this morning. He turned up, handed us a package containing an Asus...

28 August 2008, 13:42

Photos: Samsung i8510 8-megapixel camera phone

Crave Our only niggle with the headphone jack is that it's on the side instead of the top, which means the headphone pin will stick out at a weird angle in your pocket. 'Anything you can do, Samsung can do better' is what we imagine Samsung's mentality...

22 August 2008, 16:27

Photos: ISDA awards honour design innovation

Crave What do a MacBook Air and a submersible rolling pin have in common? Both are winners in this year's International Design Excellence Awards. The competition, run by the Industrial Designers Society of America and sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine...

23 July 2008, 10:14

Gear4 Blustream RX: Hi-fi Bluetooth puck

Crave It's a very weighty unit, shaped like a hockey puck and roughly the size of a British three-pin plug. Gear4 popped by Crave yesterday to talk about a super-secret new product (which we're not allowed to talk about -- but you will be excited when we...

Tags: gear4, bluetooth, talk, fi

17 April 2008, 10:34

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave Who chooses which ports make it, and which are shuffled off to the retirement home for the permanently disconnected? The fickle finger of gadget fate has left many inputs by the wayside, and they often weren't the worst.

25 March 2008, 11:02

Testing Windows Vista SP1

Crave PIN -- access to Smart Cards. Within Vista, SP1 creates a more secure PIN channel for authentication. Unlike the last Windows Service Pack release, Windows XP SP2 -- which offered users a new Windows Firewall, an improved Automatic Updates feature...

19 March 2008, 12:12

Nokia N96 and N78: Hands-on with Nokia's new Ns

Crave As you can see here, there'll be absolutely no pocket shenanigans between the N96 and a headphone pin. But all is not lost, because these handsets are much more than mere upgrades. The Nokia N96 is a step up from the Nokia N95 8GB and offers some...

11 February 2008, 16:14

Dell laptops in electric shock shocker

Crave It's caused by the two-pronged connection between the mains lead and the power adaptor, which isn't earthed properly because of its lack of a third pin. When our colleagues rang Dell to complain, they were told Dell is willing to replace all...

Tags: dell, laptops, risk, safety

17 January 2008, 15:03

Deals of the day: Cheap TVs

Crave Sony Bravia KDL-46W2000, £1,305 from BT Shop If you're after a mammoth screen that still offers pin-sharp pictures then the 46-inch KDL-46W2000 will do the trick, thanks to its native 1080p resolution and Bravia picture engine.

Tags: definition, christmas, shop, inch

27 December 2007, 8:10

O2 Wallet: Oyster card, Barclaycard and phone in one

Crave Another issue is security and how safe the system is, relative to using chip and pin. Forget carrying around a separate mobile phone, credit card and Oyster card -- according to O2, in the future we'll only need one device.

28 November 2007, 14:35