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Google dumps Yahoo ad deal

Crave The deal's demise is a new blow to the struggling Internet pioneer, whose stock has plunged to under $14 (£9) since Microsoft offered as much as $33 per share just months ago in an unfriendly acquisition attempt.

Tags: yahoo, deal, ads, ad

6 November 2008, 9:34

Welcome to the CNET UK Editors' Choice awards October 2008

Crave WiseLink Pro allows you to view video, photos and listen to music and the InfoLive system pulls news and stock market information from the Internet. Welcome to the first instalment of our new monthly awards programme.

Tags: editors, sound quality, ground, freeview

31 October 2008, 16:52

Photos: RUF's electric Porsche 911

Crave We wonder if RUF has replaced the stock ones with super-light alternatives to help keep the weight down. Porsches aren't known for their eco-friendliness, but that could soon change if German modifier RUF Auto Centre has anything to with it.

14 October 2008, 15:31

Samsung LE40A856: Size 14 features in a size 8 case

Crave Also included are Samsung's most recent revisions of WiseLink -- the photo, video and music playback system -- and InfoLive, which displays news, weather and stock market data, based on RSS feeds from Yahoo, so you can keep an eye on the global...

Tags: samsung, eye, depth, sockets

14 October 2008, 11:26

Doomed tech: Calacanis talks 'Recession 2.0'

Crave Despite the vast recession the US and UK is fast plummeting into, Yahoo, whose stock this week hit a five-year low of little over $12 per share, is rumoured to be looking not to shed unprofitable little companies from its portfolio, but acquire a...

Tags: ups, employees, cash, aol

13 October 2008, 17:34

Google patent could spark network bidding war

Crave Our friends at CNET UK's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk, contacted Google to inquire about its plans regarding the application, but only received Google's stock response to patent queries: "We file patent applications on a variety of ideas that our...

Tags: published, session, locked, portable

30 September 2008, 9:14

Gamers fight back against Spore copy protection

Crave In its first week, it seemed to do pretty well -- at least anecdotally, with stores around the US reporting they'd sold out of their stock. After years of anticipation, the coming-out party for Electronic Arts' new evolution game, Spore, seems to...

Tags: itunes, arts, downloaded, electronic

15 September 2008, 9:56

Samsung at IFA 2008: Women, ultra high definition and widgets

Crave The ability to have stock and weather information pop up at the touch of a button is likely to interest some, although those of us who grew up with Teletext 25 years ago are slightly less in awe of the whole thing.

1 September 2008, 14:58

Samsung at IFA: A 200Hz LCD and other TV treats

Crave The company was keen to push its new RSS-capable TVs under the banner Infolive -- something we spotted at CES when it was called Infolink and got told off for photographing --with included widgets for stock prices, weather and such.

Tags: samsung, model, pixels, tvs

29 August 2008, 11:58

Sharp Aquos LC-32XL8E: Slimline 32-inch 1080p LCD

Crave Here at Crave we often get asked about 1080p 32-inch LCD televisions and our stock response is that at such small sizes the benefits of a high-resolution screen are small. You might as well save your money and get a 720p TV.

Tags: sharp, space, inch, money

7 August 2008, 13:47

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W902

Crave Not content with just specs and stock shots of the phones, we've got you an ultra-early hands-on report. If last month's posts about the new Sony Ericsson W902 and W595 Walkman phones had you excited, wait 'til you see what we've got for you today.

4 August 2008, 11:31

Sony Ericsson W902: Style dictator, headphone hater

Crave It's usually a shame because the handsets are almost always able to produce audio quality leaps and bounds better than what their stock earphones can reproduce. There are two key features a portable music player needs: first, the ability to play...

22 July 2008, 10:31

Sanyo VPC-CA8: Waterproof camcorder braves British weather

Crave It's JIS IPX5 and IPX8 certified, which means it can be fully submerged underwater at depths of up to 1.5m for up to an hour at a time, which if you live in Gloucestershire is probably enough to film your swim to the corner shop to stock up on...

Tags: sanyo, orange, faces, xacti

7 July 2008, 10:48

Photos: Panasonic's HDC-SD9, as simple as ABC(NET)

Crave That could be enough for judicious use at a wedding or family event, but you'll have to stock up for a week in NYC, the UAE or Pakistan -- which is an acronym coined for the regions of India wishing to create an independent Muslim state.

30 June 2008, 11:20

O2 sold out of iPhones: Sign of 3G iPhone's arrival?

Crave Could O2 be clearing out stock, prepping itself for a better, 3G-tastic version? Update: The O2 Web site is now offering the 16GB model but the 8GB is still out of stock. Shazam -- and the iPhone is gone.

Tags: apple, iphone, deal, stock

8 May 2008, 10:05