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Photos: Hands-on with the LG Cookie KP500

Crave A series of widgets are on offer, such as an on-screen clock or memo pad, which you can drag on to the KP500's homepage. Two days ago we brought you news of a new LG phone, the Cookie KP500, but unfortunately LG's press release didn't exactly give...

8 October 2008, 13:24

UK goes DRM-free: 7digital gets MP3s from all major labels

Crave Consumers will also be able to use snippets of HTML to add 7digital widgets to their blog or social network, allowing them to promote, sell and profit from music by their favourite artists. As we predicted earlier this month, UK music download...

Tags: 7digital, cent, label, itunes

16 September 2008, 10:20

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

Crave In an ongoing battle to be the biggest exhibitor at IFA, Samsung no longer considers hall 20 at the Messe Berlin to be large enough, despite the fact that it's 96m long by 39m wide. To make up for these cramped conditions, this year it erected a...

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

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta hands-on

Crave Google Gears, Opera Link, and Opera Widgets are slated to join the app in subsequent waves of development. Long overshadowed by Opera Mini -- the light, server-fed browser for Java phones -- Opera Mobile is a robust browser built on Web standards...

Tags: opera, symbian, beta, browsing

17 July 2008, 9:10

Samsung Tocco: A phone that wants to be touched

Crave Samsung has introduced a new user interface that lets you drag and drop widgets on to the main screen. Tocco isn't a taco gone wrong: it's the Italian word for touch and Samsung has seen fit to use it as the name of its latest touchscreen phone.

23 May 2008, 11:21

Photos: Samsung F480, G810, i780, F490 and Soul

Crave If you look closely you'll see an option on the bottom right of the screen that allows you to add widgets to the start screen. It would be a massive understatement to say that Samsung announced a few new phones at the Mobile World Congress this year.

18 February 2008, 14:04

Opera Mobile 9.5: Faster, zoomier, more interactive

Crave Users will also be able to add Widgets to their phone's start page, giving them one-click access to Web content. Today Opera unveiled its latest mobile browser, the catchily named Opera Mobile 9.5. It brings together desktop and mobile browser...

Tags: browsing, opera, widgets, user interface

5 February 2008, 10:46

Archos TV+: Half PVR, half media streamer

Crave There are also widgets, for weather and RSS feeds, which extends the use of the machine even further. By now, everyone understands that Apple TV is a disappointment. Not only is the original hardware not up to much, but the new firmware update is...

Tags: archos, hands, machine, apple tv

4 February 2008, 11:39

Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac

Crave This is a layer that pops up over your desktop and holds all your widgets. Or widgets. To get gadgets -- or widgets -- going on Windows, simply download Konfabulator. Widgets this week? Then you can add widgets to keep you updated on whatever...

26 November 2007, 8:52

RCRD LBL: Music meets Web meets record label

Crave There's something of a Web 2.0 feeling about this new project, though not in the social sense: many widgets around the site can be embedded into other sites, in iGoogle or even on the OS X Dashboard, letting users have new content delivered to...

Tags: labels, commercial, project, label

16 November 2007, 11:00

Photos: Nokia's vision of the future

Crave According to Nokia, WidSets and Widgets are something to watch out for. Over the past couple of days Crave had the privilege of visiting Nokia's R&D facility in Oulu, Finland. The event was entitled the 'The Way We Live Next' and hosted by the...

25 October 2007, 11:42

7digital: Legal MP3s from EMI, linked to Last.fm

Crave This also means Last.fm widgets in sites such as MySpace and Facebook effectively become micro-portals for buying digital music legally. We have some Cravetastic news for the online music world -- 7digital just cornered us in a dark, very comfy...

Tags: 7digital, digital music, labels, itunes

12 June 2007, 13:33

viewmy.tv in really good IPTV service shocker

Crave Gadgets and Widgets are also planned, so you'll soon be able to watch TV on your PC or Mac desktop. We've just stumbled across a lovely new Web portal that gives you access to hundreds of global TV channels for free.viewmy.tv aggregates over 700...

Tags: channels, watching, stations, clips

29 May 2007, 10:49

Seven days of Vista -- day 6: Vista arrives in London

Crave And you can explore the amusing new world of Vista Widgets, er, we mean Gadgets, in our third day of Vista story here. Well, the long five-year wait is over, and Microsoft's brand-spanking new operating system, Windows Vista, and Windows Office...

Tags: microsoft, story, gadgets, windows vista

30 January 2007, 12:09