stations

PURE Digital Avanti Flow: Slick Net and DAB radio

Crave PURE's Internet radio system is called The PURE Lounge, and is essentially a media portal for Internet radio, podcasts and 'Listen Again' stations from the likes of the BBC. Back in the day, Avanti was the name of a superb map on the original Half...

Tags: pure digital, name, radio, wi fi

26 November 2008, 10:56

tikitag: RFID for the masses

Crave This consists of a small USB scanner, rather like the Oyster readers at London train stations, and a bag of tikitags -- small stickers, which when scanned can trigger pre-programmed, PC-related tasks.

Tags: development, community, readers, firebox

25 November 2008, 11:01

Better Place eRogue starts trials

Crave Building the battery-swapping stations -- essentially electric versions of today's petrol filling stations -- is expected to cost $1 billion. The electric motoring project Better Place has announced a partnership with California and launched a new...

Tags: city, car, range, stations

21 November 2008, 11:06

BBC One and Two to broadcast live online

Crave Other BBC channels, including BBC Three, BBC Four and BBC News, have been available in simulcast form for some time, along with various BBC Radio stations. BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live on the Internet from 27 November at the...

Tags: broadcast, bbc, bbc radio, research

21 November 2008, 9:14

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave It receives DAB digital stations and transmits them to your car radio on a free FM frequency, but also doubles up as an FM transmitter for your iPod. We can't do much about the first three, but we can help you out on the last one by providing you...

11 November 2008, 16:50

Wi-Fi Tiguan: Volkswagen tests Internet car

Crave Imagine driving along and being told by your car which nearby restaurants have special offers, which petrol stations have the lowest prices, or which pubs are having a happy hour in your current location.It might sound far-fetched, but Volkswagen...

Tags: fi, wi fi, wireless, updated

31 October 2008, 11:48

New Zunes: Buying songs from radio and more

Crave Some playlists are programmed by Microsoft, and some by outside music authorities such as radio stations and the US music magazine Billboard. More than 450 stations will be live at launch with the enhanced data format, Microsoft said.

Tags: song, stations, zune, fi

9 September 2008, 10:44

Photos: Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 rock-solid emailers

Crave The GPS receiver itself is superb, combining data from base stations and satellites to lock your position down much faster than the original N95 did, for example. Anyway, back to reality, and while these handsets don't come with touchscreens they...

17 June 2008, 12:00

Hands-on with the Tangent Quattro Internet radio

Crave It's amazing how long you can spend browsing radio stations from Japan, Kazakhstan and Egypt when something makes it so utterly simple. Along with FM reception, the system pulls Internet radio listings from the Reciva portal, and sorts stations by...

Tags: tangent, wi fi, stations, radio

25 February 2008, 11:34

UK broadcaster axes DAB stations: Is digital radio doomed?

Crave British commercial radio company GCap Media has decided to axe two DAB stations -- theJazz and Planet Rock -- despite almost a million listeners, claiming that DAB was "not economically viable. Together, the two axed stations had 927,000 listeners...

Tags: pure digital, demand, stations, cent

12 February 2008, 10:56

Intempo 'Daisy': Wi-Fi Net radio for your pocket

Crave You'll be able to use the new radio -- codenamed 'Daisy' -- with about 6,000 Internet radio stations, or with Real or Windows Media audio streams. Though if you do find yourself stuck without a hotspot, you'll be able to tune into FM stations instead.

Tags: intempo

14 January 2008, 10:55

Arcam Solo Movie 2.1: Meet the king of DVD players

Crave You also get a DAB/FM tuner, to listen to the nation's digital and analogue radio stations -- it can even act as an alarm clock. Good news for those hard-working City types who've just received their massive yearly bonuses.

Tags: arcam, dvd player, bass, high end

24 December 2007, 8:05

Intempo RDi iPod speaker dock: Dabbling with DAB

Crave presets for saving favourite stations, alarm clock functionality and it looks pretty too. So you're thinking about Christmas gifts? Perhaps on one hand you're considering a new DAB radio. On the other, you might be considering an iPod speaker system.

Tags: intempo, radio, hands, functionality

13 December 2007, 9:20

O2 Wallet: Oyster card, Barclaycard and phone in one

Crave Similar to Londoners' current Oyster cards, you simply have to tap the phone against card readers in Tube stations for it to debit the appropriate fare. Forget carrying around a separate mobile phone, credit card and Oyster card -- according to O2...

28 November 2007, 14:35

Hands-on with the PURE Digital Chronos II

Crave There's a bunch of preset slots for saving your favourite stations and multiple alarm options. PURE Digital's original Chronos bedside digital radio scored an impressive 8 out of 10 last year. It was also nominated for our prestigious 2006 Editor's...

Tags: pure digital, radio, chronos, alarm

27 November 2007, 10:22