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The Queen visits Google's London headquarters

Crave Google European president Nikesh Arora headed up a group of 50 staff and senior management in a meet and greet with the Queen. The Queen joined the Web 2.0 generation yesterday when she uploaded a clip to YouTube for the first time.

Tags: channel, youtube, visit, face

17 October 2008, 9:26

Five ways the Japanese are technically better than us

Crave The staff will be rude and unhelpful, and will either try to fine you for not having a valid ticket or deafen you with their incessant whistle blowing. We're British, so we know when we're being beaten at something.

9 October 2008, 16:58

Crave Podcast 96: Microsoft punks Vista haters

Crave Then, ex-Google staff attempt to upstage their former employer by making Cuil -- a search engine of their own. It's podcast Friday, y'all! Rory Reid returns to the helm after a two week hiatus, to join Nate Lanxon, Kate Macefield and Richard...

Tags: windows vista, podcast, prisoners, fans

1 August 2008, 11:17

Photos: Opel Flextreme car, complete with built-in Segways

Crave We've seen swans eating pigeons, we've seen our own staff go mental after eating too many sweets and today, we've just seen a car with built-in Segways. Crave has seen many things during its existence.

25 July 2008, 16:46

Apple can't activate UK iPhone 3G without Internet Explorer

Crave According to one disappointed customer, as he left the store without a handset, Apple staff couldn't access the O2 phone network's activation system. For the crowds of patient Apple fans queueing outside Apple's flagship UK store in London this...

Tags: iphone, store, customer, handset

11 July 2008, 9:48

Exclusive hands-on: Philips GoGear SA2820 and SA2840

Crave This player is more realistically up against the Creative Zen Stone Plus -- something of a staff favourite here -- than the iPod shuffle, what with its screen and voice recorder built-in as standard. Philips has had a line of consistently easy-to...

24 June 2008, 11:01

Etopia Music: Paul Young's DRM-free store for unsigned bands

Crave Users can also alert staff if they see questionable material.Managing director Ricky Simmonds told us that experience with a similar Web site -- Audiojelly (a company that owns Etopia) --  told him that people who pay for accounts tend not to...

Tags: etopia music, songs, label, upload

31 January 2008, 8:23

Dell laptops in electric shock shocker

Crave We know this because several CNET staff were hit with an electrical charge while using Dell's new XPS M1530 -- and we're not the only ones. We've discovered a worrying new feature in some Dell laptops: if you touch them, you may get an electric shock.

Tags: dell, laptops, risk, safety

17 January 2008, 15:03

Crave TV: Microsoft pushes journalist out of plane

Crave In a fit of undeniable lunacy, Gates' staff invited us to jump out of a plane last week, so that we could experience some new features in Vista. You can call Microsoft many things -- but you definitely can't call it boring.

11 October 2007, 14:33

Top ten geek holiday destinations

Crave Reason to visit: Because it's a bloody spaceport Almost 20,000 people keep the Kennedy Space Center running, including the staff that peddle hats and whatnot in the visitor centres. Location: Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UKReason to visit: Gargantuan...

24 September 2007, 13:22

Dell targets kebab shops with new Vostro range

Crave In other words they're loaded with simple-to-use tools to monitor the health of your PC, perform easy backups, and have specialised tech support with dedicated IT staff. Dell's marketing types have been busy developing a new brand for small...

Tags: dell, ram, hard drive, cpu

11 July 2007, 10:28

Crave Talk: Is Flickr's German censorship sinister or clumsy?

Crave A continued failure by Flickr staff to say much more than 'er.we're working on it' and assorted flaws in the safe-search filter system have damaged trust in both Flickr's good intentions and in its competence.

Tags: flickr, law, community, german

20 June 2007, 11:30

LG's eco-friendly wooden plasma TV

Crave Many of our more environmentally enlightened staff members have hounded our bosses to the point where our recycling addiction makes us look like bag ladies and we plant whole trees for every piece of A4 used.

Tags: lg electronics, components, lg, equipment

16 November 2006, 14:52

How to photograph fireworks on Bonfire Night

Crave Fireworks and Fun on the PBS Web site has tips from the staff photographers at the Smithsonian Institution, who explain how they cover events on the National Mall in Washington, DC. In schools around the UK, children are chanting the old nursery...

Tags: night, shoot, shooting, plot

3 November 2006, 11:59

Crave's guide to World Cup gadgets: Part One

Crave If you're not able to persuade your tech support staff that you need a larger monitor to see all the columns in the company's financial spreadsheets, then it may be worth investing in a laptop of your own.

Tags: eye, watching, desk, listening

13 June 2006, 11:37