Domino's mobile: When the noms hit your iPhone like a big pizza pie
It's Friday, you've had a hard week of checking out Crave's informative and entertaining features -- it's time you kicked back with a slice. We tried out Domino's new iPhone site at www.dominos.co.uk/m, as powered by Vexed Digital.
Pizza in your pocket
Like Papa John's mobile site, this is an iPhone-optimised version of the Domino's site, rather than a standalone app. Non-iPhone users can use the text-ordering service, but that requires fiddly setup.
While it will spot you're on an iPhone, the site doesn't automatically grab your location from your GPS. Instead, you have to type in your postcode. Registering allows you to go straight to the nearest branch, and save your details. Each store has a direct link to phone up, or a Google Maps link. Continue reading...
Twitter vs the world: Ten scandals that set Twitter alight
2009 has been the year of Twitter. The number of users has exploded, and where there's people, there's people getting brassed off about something. From the Hudson river crash to the Bombay bombings, Twitter has seen users tweeting from the heart of the news. But the site also allows for instant, spontaneous mass reaction to events. We've picked ten of the scandals, shocks and controversies that have got our knickers in a knot and tweets in a twist over the past year. Continue reading...
Digital Economy Bill confirms copyright proposals, turns Mandelson loose
The government unveiled the Digital Economy Bill today, confirming tortuously complicated proposals to combat copyright infringement by to-ing and fro-ing between ISPs, rights holders, Ofcom and the courts. It also paved the way for business secretary Lord Mandelson to rewrite copyright law.
The bill implements the proposals of the Digital Britain report. There are no big surprises, but not much in the way of specifics either. Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms announced that Internet service providers will be forced to send cease-and-desist notices to customers they suspect of copyright infringement. Continue reading...
CNET UK Podcast 162: How's Android doing? 
This week on the show, Rory Reid, Nate Lanxon and Ian Morris decided to sit down and have a chat. As luck would have it, the chinwag happened at the same time as the regular podcast recording, and by sheer fluke, in the podcast studio. This amazing coincidence means this week you'll hear us berate Rory for being annoying, discuss how Android is doing after passing some important landmarks, and we ponder the legality of confiscating a child's Xbox 360.
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Convicted murderer sues Wikipedia under privacy law
Microsoft denies Windows 7 is based on Mac OS
O2 builds bigger network, perhaps now we can make a call
Power-guzzling TVs to be banned by California
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Britain's cheapest mobile phone contract: Is it worth it?
The cheapest mobile phone contract in Britain right now will lock you in for more time than the minimum sentence for burglary -- but it's only a fiver a month.
Orange's 'Orange 5' plan offers 50 minutes and 50 texts a month for £4.89, and throws in a free Nokia 2330. We haven't reviewed the 2330, but Nokia can be trusted to make decent inexpensive phones, even this cheap. And you won't be stuck with the 2330 forever -- you'll get a free upgrade to a similar low-end phone after 18 months.
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Top ten tech records
In the 15 years since genial trumpeter Roy Castle went to the great Book of Records in the sky, technology has moved faster than his tap-dancing toes. The majority of the biggest, fastest and most powerful tech mentioned here wasn't even dreamed of back in 1994, which makes us wonder what futuristic world records are yet to be set. Strongest prosthetic exoskeleton? Fastest sub-orbital ramjet? Deadliest virtual-reality mind virus? Here's our current cutting-edge top ten tech records... Continue reading...
Firefox coming to PlayStation 3?
"Firefox? In my PS Triple? Sacre bleu!"
That's what you should be saying right about now. Tipsters have been fingering keyboards towards the PlayStation Insider blog, which we'd never heard of until Engadget linked to it, and apparently "sources very close to Sony" say Mozilla might be porting the Firefox Web browser to the PS3. Continue reading...
Sony Online Service: iTunes rival attempts to Save Our Sales
Sony has announced an online store selling music, films, games and ebooks. The iTunes rival is tentatively titled Sony Online Service and aims to recue Sony's struggling finances. SOS is an apt name.
BusinessWeek reports the intiative was announced at a management strategy meeting in Tokyo today. As well as selling content, the store will allow users to upload pictures and videos to personal accounts. Continue reading...
Eee PC 1201N: Fastest netbook yet? 
Good news, portable computing fans -- Asus has just announced the Eee PC 1201N multimedia netbook, which packs a twin-core Intel processor and dedicated Nvidia Ion graphics. In other words, it's one of the first netbooks to offer decent processing power and the potential for complex 3D graphics.
Whereas many of its rivals resort to either an Intel N270 or N280 CPU, the 1201N uses an Intel Atom 330, which has two cores, each running at 1.6GHz. If this sounds familiar, that's because it's the same dual-core chip used in Asus' Eee Box 1501 mini PC. Continue reading...
Google demos Chrome OS: Out late 2010
Netbooks running Google's own operating system -- Chrome OS -- rather than Windows, yesterday took a giant step forward as the company released the underlying source code to the developer community.
At a conference in the US, Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, announced the lightweight operating system is about a year away from release. He also promised it would ship pre-installed on Chrome OS-optimised netbooks, rather than be provided as a free download for anyone to install on any computer. Continue reading...
