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Windows 7 is not a service pack, Microsoft says

Crave Bill Veghte, the senior vice president of the Windows business, put it this way in a speech to investors on Wednesday: Microsoft is attempting a challenging task with its positioning of Windows 7. The company is trying to make the case that the...

Tags: microsoft, case, upgrade, connect

4 December 2008, 9:49

Runco's drool-worthy 100-inch VideoWall

Crave OK, enough of our bitter 'We don't make as much money as Bill Clinton and Larry King and never will' hate speech. A few weeks ago former US president Bill Clinton was a guest on CNN's Larry King Live discussing the financial crisis and Bill said...

Tags: runco, contrast, operation, frame

27 November 2008, 8:35

Microsoft hails choice in Windows 7 as advantage over rival

Crave A key part of Windows 7 is to enable a full spectrum of choices," senior vice president Steven Sinofsky (pictured) said in a speech. Microsoft touted its new Windows 7 as having more choice than its rival Apple's offerings at the Windows Hardware...

Tags: machines, handle, beta, enable

6 November 2008, 10:00

Photos: 8-year-old tests XO laptops

Crave Among the built-in programs in the Linux version is this animated speech synthesiser that reads aloud anything typed onto the screen. Our friends over at sister site CNET News.com wanted to find out how the two models of the XO-1 (One Laptop Per...

27 October 2008, 10:00

LG 50PG6900: 50-inch plasma goodness with built-in Freeview+

Crave Luckily, LG has put some effort into perfecting this as well, and backs up cunning speaker placement with a technology called 'clear voice', which you'll be surprised to hear is designed to make speech as clear as possible.

Tags: lg electronics, waiting, lg, panel

6 October 2008, 10:57

Photos: Robots at Ceatec 2008

Crave Using facial recognition technology, she guides people by interpreting and using facial expressions, speech and her touch tablet. In addition to all the concept mobile phones and paper-thin OLED screens we've been ogling at this year's Ceatec...

2 October 2008, 9:45

Government to spend £300m on free broadband

Crave In his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference on Tuesday, Brown outlined a £300m programme which will see the government pay for broadband connections, software and computers for all children aged between seven and 19 in low-income and...

Tags: school, broadband, children, speech

24 September 2008, 8:10

Jamo A 402 HCS: 5.1 speakers with bonus marital harmony

Crave The centre channel features a pair of woofers and a tweeter to handle the nuances of speech, and is also easily wall-mountable. If you've persuaded the love of your life to accept a large-screen TV into your lounge, please accept our hearty...

Tags: jamo, speaker, speakers, ports

30 July 2008, 11:00

Car Tech: Fiat 500 -- the iPod of cars, powered by Windows

Crave The 500, voted European car of the year, uses Microsoft Automotive technology -- a special combination of hardware and software that lets drivers interact with the vehicle using speech. Can you believe it?

30 June 2008, 17:00

Planet CNET Episode 7: Talking plants and cars

Crave Next, we're off to Japan for a toy plant that reacts to speech, and finally Rory Reid takes a look at the talking Fiat 500 -- check back on the site soon as we'll have more on this in a new episode of Car Tech.

25 June 2008, 10:08

Crave Live: Apple iPhone 3G unveiled at WWDC

Crave CNET.com's Molly Wood reports from the Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Francisco with all the salient iPhone details from Steve Jobs' keynote speech -- including how the new third-party apps can help us become brain surgeons.

10 June 2008, 8:05

Crave Live: Apple iPhone 3G announcement -- in 5 minutes!

Crave Okay, hands up: who really wanted to sit through the entire keynote speech last night? Check out Jobsy's speech, compressed into a gloriously short five minutes. Anyone. Bueller? For those of you with other things to do besides listen to applause...

9 June 2008, 20:00

LG 50PG6000: A plasma TV that will make you go 'ooohh'

Crave There's even something called 'clear speech' that aims to make dialogue easier to hear. Here at Crave you can usually tell when an interesting product turns up, because a little crowd forms, making comments, coming over to have a look and possibly...

Tags: lg electronics, box, inputs, plasma

3 April 2008, 15:13

Nokia 6220 Classic: 5-megapixels for lost, travelling bloggers

Crave Other features include up to 8GB of internal memory, an FM radio, Web functionality and something Nokia calls 'Adaptive Multi Rate' -- a "wideband speech-coding technology, giving a more natural sound to human voice in phone calls".

Tags: nokia, carl zeiss, speech, megapixel

11 February 2008, 10:17

Samsung i70: Stainless steel showgirl

Crave The keypad can be used as a mobile phone-style keypad for entering notes or adding text in speech balloons to images. Samsung has shown admirable commitment to the all-singin', all-dancin', all-convergin' camera.

Tags: samsung, recorder, colours, user interface

7 February 2008, 11:04