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Last.fm reveals Earth's most popular music

Crave Last.fm, the music streaming site (and our CBS corporate sibling), released some data this week about the most popular music of the year, as 'scrobbled' by the site's 25 million users. To cut a long story short, Coldplay stole the show.

Tags: last.fm, songs, album, perry

4 December 2008, 10:27

Amazon UK MP3 store: Cheap and DRM-free

Crave As plain MP3 files, downloads are compatible with iPods, Creative Zens, Sony Walkmans, and every other music player on the planet. After initially announcing it would bring its popular MP3-only download store to the UK, Amazon has this morning...

Tags: itunes, labels, songs, amazon

3 December 2008, 11:42

Planet CNET Episode 23: Lasers on a Volvo

Crave Join CNET Australia's Ella Morton from the premiere of Baz Luhrman's wartime epic Australia for the 23rd episode of our global tech show. This week, our very own Rory Reid is in Scotland to drive a car with laser beams mounted on the front.No, he...

19 November 2008, 15:42

CNET UK Podcast 111: Deafening silence from the Mars Phoenix rover

Crave In space updates, we're discussing the sad news that Earth has perhaps heard its last words from the Mars Phoenix rover, which went silent from the surface of the red planet at the start of the month.

14 November 2008, 11:30

Planet CNET Episode 22: Wine-pouring, unicycling robots

Crave In this episode of Planet CNET, Kara Tsuboi introduces a wine-pouring robot sommelier from Singapore and a gyroscopic unicycling automaton from Japan.In other news, Ella Morton is getting all worked up because the Australian government has decided...

6 November 2008, 15:27

Welcome to the CNET UK Editors' Choice awards October 2008

Crave Eee PC S101We believe the Eee PC S101 is the currently the best netbook on the planet. With video rentals from the iTunes Store, thousands of useful third-party applications and games from the likes of Electronic Arts, full support for Google Mail...

Tags: editors, sound quality, ground, freeview

31 October 2008, 16:52

Google Earth for iPhone: We're not worthy

Crave Enter Google Earth iPhone, which allows you to zoom in and out of our lovely planet by pinching the screen, tilt the iPhone to see 3D geographical images, search for your location via GPS and tap Wikipedia and Panoramio links for location-based...

Tags: google, location, earth, iphone

27 October 2008, 12:23

Crave Podcast 108: Space stinks

Crave To be fair, they could have said it smelt like spoons and we'd have no choice but to believe them -- it's not like Crave is going to leave the planet any time soon. This week on the Crave Podcast, Ian, Nate and Andrew rake over the week in tech and...

24 October 2008, 11:50

Crave Podcast 108: Space stinks

Crave To be fair, they could have said it smelt like spoons and we'd have no choice but to believe them -- it's not like Crave is going to leave the planet any time soon. This week on the Crave Podcast, Ian, Nate and Andrew rake over the week in tech and...

24 October 2008, 11:50

Crave Podcast 108: Space stinks

Crave To be fair, they could have said it smelt like spoons and we'd have no choice but to believe them -- it's not like Crave is going to leave the planet any time soon. This week on the Crave Podcast, Ian, Nate and Andrew rake over the week in tech and...

Tags: apple tv, steve jobs, crave podcast, nintendo wii

24 October 2008, 11:50

Planet CNET Episode 21: Say hello to the HiPhone

Crave In this episode of Planet CNET, our German colleagues test out the 'HiPhone', a blatant iPhone copy with handy extra features such as a replaceable battery. If you've ever seen a Chinese tech knock-off on eBay and thought it was just too good to be...

23 October 2008, 15:35

Planet CNET Episode 20: Shops, teens and Nokia

Crave Hello Planet CNET fan! It's that time of the week again where we mind meld with our editors from across the globe to see what's hot in their country. First, we're off to Singapore to see how they buy electronics out there.

16 October 2008, 11:27

Photos: Exclusive Cowon O2 hands-on

Crave This flash-based PMP follows on from the Cowon Q5W and A3 of 2007, bringing with it support for almost every video and audio format on the planet, including MKV video and FLAC audio. Viewing angles are good, but it's not the single brightest screen...

16 October 2008, 9:35

Planet CNET Episode 19: Video tour of the giant Airbus A380

Crave The super-jumbo that's been on the telly lots, aka the Airbus A380, is finally in operation thanks to Singapore Airlines. The lucky folks down at CNET Australia have had a chance to take a look round one, with Ella Morton lounging on the double bed...

8 October 2008, 14:45

Honda Insight: World's cheapest hybrid car?

Crave But ignore that for a second, because Honda says, come spring 2009, the Insight will be the cheapest hybrid on the planet. Remember the hideous-looking Honda Insight launched in 1999? You know, the first hybrid car to go on sale in Europe?

Tags: hybrid, insight, prius, honda

6 October 2008, 17:05