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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

Windows 7 is not a service pack, Microsoft says

Crave The company released a pre-beta version of Windows 7 for developers at two conferences earlier this year, with a broader beta scheduled for early next year, followed by a release candidate. Microsoft is attempting a challenging task with its...

Tags: microsoft, case, upgrade, connect

4 December 2008, 9:49

Mobile industry not green enough, report says

Crave And although most vendors offer recycling options, less than five per cent of the world's handsets will be recycled ethically in the end, according to a report released by ABI Research Monday. Samsung released three models encased in corn-based...

Tags: ericsson, electronics, mobile phones, cent

4 December 2008, 9:22

Internet: The Movie!

Crave Released straight to UMD and Laserdisc, obv. Oh hello there. Here at Crave Towers, we've been inspired by the news that West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is to script a movie based on the story of Facebook.

3 December 2008, 15:58

Nokia Maps and Messenger services upgraded

Crave Nokia has released new versions of its mapping and navigation service along with a new messaging service in an effort to build out its mobile services The upgraded Nokia Maps offers new features, such as high-resolution aerial images and 3D landmarks.

Tags: nokia, maps, messaging, gps

3 December 2008, 9:19

Cloud: A new browser-based OS for netbooks

Crave The company says that such touch-screen netbooks running the Cloud OS and Windows will be released at CES next month. Good OS, the people who brought you the Linux-based gOS, announced a browser-based OS called Cloud at the Netbook World Summit in...

Tags: os, linux, dock, paris

2 December 2008, 10:03

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman

Crave Released next year, the W705 is perhaps the most beautiful Walkman we saw in 2008. Earlier this month we wrote about Sony Ericsson's latest Walkman slider phone, and it's a stunner. And we can reinforce that now we've got a working model in-house!

27 November 2008, 13:34

Company makes special Keyboard For Blondes

Crave According to its manufacturer, European Trends, the keyboard has already been released in the U.K to some success. Blondes have suffered decades of ridicule, and you can count this new product as one more jab.

Tags: keyboard, keys, pink, paris hilton

26 November 2008, 9:57

Video: Electric Mini E debuts at LA Auto show

Crave At its fastest, the Mini E's speedometer will hit 95mph.To charge the Mini E, you can conveniently plug it into any outlet -- a full charge takes roughly 8hours.Otherwise, you can use a wallbox specially created by BWM to work at a higher amperage...

25 November 2008, 11:44

Hello Kitty makes netbooks dangerously cute

Crave After months underground, during which time she released only a pixellated propaganda video, the felicitous feline has surfaced once again, bent on pursuing her plan for world domination. As evidence, we present to you the Hello Kitty netbook.

24 November 2008, 9:27

Adobe bringing fully fledged Flash 10 to phones

Crave Adobe released AIR 1.5 on Monday, a version that inherits Flash Player 10 abilities such as better text rendering, support for right-to-left text scripts such as Arabic, multichannel audio and 3D effects.

Tags: enabled, operating system, air, offline

18 November 2008, 10:15

Photos: World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King UK launch

Crave While official figures are yet to be released, the queue stretching right the way around the store was longer before the store opened than it had been for last year's event, and showed no signs of dissipating even after doors opened -- more fans...

13 November 2008, 15:32

iPhone has half the failure rate of BlackBerry

Crave The SquareTrade study, released a few days ago, looked at more than 15,000 handsets that were covered by the company's policies. Figures from the analyst firm Canalysys, released last week, showed Apple has now overtaken RIM in the global smart...

11 November 2008, 9:13

Apple quashes rumours of Mac Mini and iMac

Crave Apple has debunked the rumour mill's latest obsession, declaring that no new Macs will be released before Christmas. Reports surfaced yesterday that Apple was getting ready to release an updated version of the iMac and the Mac Mini next week.

Tags: mini, imac, lineup, macworld

4 November 2008, 10:12

Hands on with the Casio Exilim EX-Z19: N-n-n-n-nineteen

Crave In the week that MTV released every video ever shown on the channel to people in the States -- and people who know how to work a proxy -- we've revisited several of our favourite 80s synthpop landmarks.

Tags: casio, scene, ex, portrait

31 October 2008, 11:20