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Internet: The Movie!

Crave Format War 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. We've long dreamed of breaking into showbusiness -- there's no business like...

3 December 2008, 15:58

CNET UK Podcast 111: Deafening silence from the Mars Phoenix rover

Crave We also talk about a new way America is dealing with the war on fat kids, by means of encouraging text messages. Though they'll probably spend even more time in front of the computer now full-length films are coming to Google's YouTube.There's an...

14 November 2008, 11:30

Samsung i85: Mad as a bag of hammers

Crave There's no image stabilisation, but you do get something vastly more interesting, in our opinion: the camera comes pre-loaded with the trailer for D-War. We love the Samsung i series: it's just so wonderfully bonkers.

6 November 2008, 11:00

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

Crave No doubt Casio was heavily involved in the creation of such classics as Paul Hardcastle's anti-war electro anthem Nineteen. In the week that MTV released every video ever shown on the channel to people in the States -- and people who know how to...

Tags: casio, scene, ex, portrait

31 October 2008, 11:20

Hands-on with New Xbox Experience: Welcome to avatar city

Crave With the existing Xbox Live, a big fan favourite was what are called themes, essentially imagery from games such as BioShock or Gears of War that are used to customise the Live experience. Microsoft has named a date for the launch of its revamped...

9 October 2008, 11:45

Crave Podcast 105: The Great Game Robbery

Crave In other gaming news, we've got wind of a new Internet game designed to raise awareness about victims of war in Uganda, but is it all the designers intended it to be? It's podcast Friday, y'all! Episode 105 is brought to you by Rory Reid, Ian...

Tags: wind, podcast, playstation, itunes

3 October 2008, 13:00

Onkyo TX-NR906: Darth Vader endorses this AV receiver

Crave Darth was unlucky enough to pick HD DVD in the format war, which is one of the reasons those Blu-ray lovers on Alderaan had to die. He may enjoy killing the innocent, blowing up planets and generally keeping a stranglehold on those around him, but...

Tags: onkyo, planets, hd, inputs

3 October 2008, 11:01

Google patent could spark network bidding war

Crave Google has filed a patent for mobile phones that could make various network operators bid against one another for each call or data session initiated by the user. The patent, which was filed in March 2007 but was only published by the US Patent...

Tags: published, session, locked, portable

30 September 2008, 9:14

Xbox 360 gets UK price cut

Crave Naturally, Microsoft was keen to promote the exclusive titles in its Christmas lineup, including Gears of War 2, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, Scene It? Pick-and-mix merchants Woolworths may have jumped the gun with...

Tags: christmas, console, xbox, pack

17 September 2008, 8:20

Micro Four Thirds vs Samsung: This means war! (eventually)

Crave We're about due a good format war. For better or worse, the dust has settled on the Blu-ray vs HD DVD scrap, and anyone looking for the next tech donnybrook will have to look elsewhere. Fortunately, fight fans, the camera market has seen competing...

Tags: olympus, micro, film, mirror

9 September 2008, 11:26

Toshiba Regza 40ZF575D: Improving bog-standard video

Crave Toshiba began its press conference at IFA in Berlin by denying that it would be announcing a Blu-ray player -- this didn't come as much of a surprise, as the company is still hurting from a very expensive loss in the great format war of 2007.

Tags: tvs, definition, ray, blu

28 August 2008, 15:46

Photos: Sony announces 80GB PS3 -- and more from E3 2008

Crave Although he did not announce a publication date, Tretton said God of War III would be coming to the PS3. The E3 game expo kicked off this week in Los Angeles, California. Microsoft has already given us updates to the Xbox Live service and now Sony...

16 July 2008, 9:20

Pioneer creates 400GB optical disc: Like 16 layers of Blu-ray

Crave Barely half a year after Blu-ray won the format war we're now being told that Pioneer is working on the next big thing, and when we say big, we really do mean it. The Japanese company has announced that it has successfully created a 400GB optical...

Tags: disc, discs, ray, storage

10 July 2008, 10:47

HP Voodoo Envy 133: Laptop to swap a wife for

Crave Measuring in at just 18mm, the Envy 133 is a 13.3-inch LED screen-toting performance laptop with instant-on capabilities which, over a lifetime, might save you enough time to read War and Peace. HP's Voodoo PC brand has unveiled its answer to Apple...

Tags: hp, envy, north american, voodoo

10 June 2008, 15:02

Photos: Nokia N96 vs Nokia N95 8GB vs Nokia N95 vs iPhone

Crave Let the smart phone war begin. Earlier this year we treated you to a sneak peek of the incoming Nokia N96, the N95's successor. Now we've managed to get one in the office and we thought you'd like to see it next to its predecessors -- and its...

3 June 2008, 16:53