Nate Lanxon
Nate is CNET.co.uk's expert on digital music and portable media. He was born just long enough before the beginning of the digital age to grow up with it, become one with it and then be utterly consumed by it. 'Geek by profession' has been his career goal for two decades.
Tuesday 15 April 2008, 9:26am
Lost Odyssey: Best game since Final Fantasy X
The Final Fantasy series are my favourite games of all time, and I'm lucky enough to have a partner who's as obsessed with them as I am, so I still get to play them with the same dedication I did when I was younger. I was eagerly awaiting the release of Lost Odyssey -- a Japanese RPG for the Xbox 360 created by the legendary Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who created Final Fantasy. Click here for more
Wednesday 2 April 2008, 4:31pm
Ceiling Cat watches over CNET.co.uk
We at CNET.co.uk are enthusiasts, fond of many things: technology, music, cars, coffee, midgets. But there's one more we all adore -- especially me -- and that, ladies and gentlemen, is lolcats. Click here for more
Monday 17 March 2008, 12:33pm
Beatles albums should go lossless on iTunes
A £200m deal between iTunes and Sir Paul McCartney to have the popular digital music store offer the entire Beatles back-catalogue for download has recently been all over the news. The Daily Mail broke the story, which was later denied by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, though I assume the deal is likely to happen eventually. Click here for more
Wednesday 12 March 2008, 9:20am
The 10th anniversary of the MP3 player
In 1998, the late Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi was born. In the same year, Robert B. Laughlin won the Nobel prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect -- a joint success shared with Daniel C. Tsui and Horst L. Störmer. But closer to my heart, 1998 saw the birth of the first portable MP3 player. It was Eiger Labs' MPMan F10, and it had just 32MB of on-board flash memory. Click here for more
Tuesday 11 March 2008, 2:53pm
A century before Web simulcasts, there was Theatrophone
Humans have been bending their considerable ingenuity to the challenge of delivering music remotely longer than you might think. Recently I came across one of history's most attractive pre-radio broadcasting solutions -- the Théâtrophone, a French system from more than a century ago that delivered stereo audio from opera houses and theatres via telephone wires. Click here for more
Tuesday 19 February 2008, 11:11am
Official: Yahoo has NOT booted The Pirate Bay
There's plenty of buzz about Yahoo booting The Pirate Bay from its search results, but it's not entirely accurate. True, a search for 'The Pirate Bay' doesn't give you any results for the torrent site's homepage. But switch to advanced search and hit up, say, 'Spiderman 3', and request Yahoo to only look at the site 'thepiratebay.org', and you get plenty of results. Over 3,000 at the time of writing. Click here for more
Monday 18 February 2008, 4:07pm
Apple TV will be Apple's new games console
Apple TV could lend itself to being something of a console, albeit in a slightly unusual fashion. Like all consoles it spends its time hooked up to a TV, it has plenty of storage and processing power to run similar games to the iPod, and the ease of using a simple handheld remote as a controller is an obvious benefit for people who aren't typically hardcore gamers Click here for more
Thursday 14 February 2008, 10:15am
Firefox 3 beta 3 is a browser nirvana
One of the most complained about issues with previous Firefox releases is that its determination to consume every last megabyte of RAM was beyond problematic. The so-called "memory leaks" were capable of forcing a PC to slow to a crawl as it desperately tried to utilise what little memory it had left, meaning systems of only average spec were left in a state of perpetual uselessness. Click here for more
Articles by Nate Lanxon
Sennheiser IE 7 sound-isolating earphones
Review If you read our reviews, you'll know that as far as mid-range sound-isolating earphones go, we have a soft spot for the Klipsch Custom-3s. Well, now we have been introduced to the Sennheiser IE 7s, and boy are they giving the Klipsches a run for their money. The IE 7s are reasonably-priced, superb all-rounders
Sennheiser IE 8 sound-isolating earphones
Review We loved the way the Sennheiser IE 8 sound-isolating earphones added warmth and depth to our broad music collection. With the added bonus of being able to manually adjust the bass, these earphones are more than worthy competitors to the Shure SE530s. Be prepared to have your music rocked
Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman
Photo We've got Sony Ericsson's latest Walkman phone in-house -- the beautiful W705 -- and this one is for sure a hot contender for sexiest phone of the year
Woo Audio WA2 headphone amplifier
Review To put it simply, the Woo Audio WA2 is the best headphone amplifier in its price category by a mile. It provides an experience that is completely luscious -- deep, smooth bass, rich vocal reproduction, and a sweet, spacious, notably airy treble that's smashing for live classical performances, although can handle anything you throw its way. Superb
PURE Digital Avanti Flow: Slick Net and DAB radio
Crave PURE Digital's latest DAB radio is the second Net radio-enabled system from the company, and it could make one hell of a good gift for the Consumermas season.
Apple releases iPhone 2.2 firmware
Crave The brand new firmware for Apple's iPhone is out, and it includes Google's Street View service and wireless podcast downloading, among a heap of performance improvements
Sony NWZ-S639F Walkman
Review Sony's NWZ-S639F Walkman S series is an affordable model that delivers. It supports BBC iPlayer downloads, so you can take full advantage of its crisp -- albeit small -- screen. Its stylish design and incredibly easy-to-use navigation system is coupled with superb Sony sound quality, making this MP3 player music to our ears
Photos: Ears-on with the wireless Sleek Audio SA6 earphones
Photo Sleek Audio's high-end SA6 earphones are now available with Kleer wireless technology, and it's a whole load better than Bluetooth. Here's why
