Nate Lanxon
Nate Lanxon is CNET UK's Senior Editor of News and Features, and covers every aspect of technology for Crave. He also enjoys popular-science books, obscure Japanese animation and plays 'technical metal' on the drums, whatever that is.
Wednesday 5 August 2009, 4:06pm
MacBook survives plummet on to concrete
Something truly horrifying happened last night. Something so horrific, so inexcusable, silence smothered the air, gagging the mouths of dozens of witnesses: I dropped my unibody MacBook from waist height on to solid concrete. Click here for more
Friday 31 July 2009, 6:21pm
Are you trending on Twitter because you've died?
I have this problem: Whenever I see a celebrity's name trending on Twitter, I immediately assume they've died and I just haven't seen the news yet. Click here for more
Monday 27 July 2009, 2:10pm
Head of AVG uses a Mac
Last week, I didn't just discover AVG is planning an iPhone antivirus app, or that OS X is getting a full-size AVG suite next year -- I discovered something even more curious about the company's CEO, JR Smith. Click here for more
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 5:57pm
Wait -- the best netbooks are still to come
Hey, Google's making an operating system. You probably heard. It's quite big news. Like someone really famous having a baby. Only it's a really underweight baby with its heart and organs being pumped artificially by a beeping machine -- no wonder the press has gone crazy for the netbook-specific OS.
But there's something I do not, and will not use: any kind of netbook, regardless of how well it'll run Google's OS. Click here for more
Monday 15 June 2009, 5:28pm
N97: Greatest disappointment of 2009
The haggard offspring of a one-night stand betwixt horse and sheep would be a frightening beast indeed. Whether body of a sheep and head of a horse, or body of a horse and legs of a sheep, such a mammal would perform neither a sheep's, nor a horse's tasks terribly well. Nokia's N97 feels like the spawn of a similarly ill-advised liaison, but in this case involving the iPhone and the N95. And it, too, should receive both barrels squarely to the face. Click here for more
Friday 12 June 2009, 4:50pm
Your grief is lucrative for Facebook
"By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness." -Emily Bronte
Surprise! Googling classic English literature has not been the only thing I've done this week. Recently, I had the unpleasant job of changing my relationship status on Facebook from 'In a relationship' to 'Single'. Not something I've had to do for over four years. Well, I wasn't on Facebok then, but you get the idea. Click here for more
Friday 29 May 2009, 4:27pm
Geek saves Mac, not cat, from burning flat
We were watching Death Note when we smelled the unmistakable stench of something burning. 11:30pm, and the entire block of flats we live in erupted in fire alarms, and we dashed out of the flat in a hot panic. Click here for more
Friday 22 May 2009, 3:51pm
iPhone speed boost could spell trouble for iPod touch
Rumours are circling that the next iPhone will run considerably faster than the current model. As plausible as the rumour appears, a significant bump in iPhone processing power could spell trouble for iPod touch users Click here for more
Articles by Nate Lanxon
Firefox coming to PlayStation 3?
Crave Tipsters have been fingering keyboards, and apparently "sources very close to Sony" say Mozilla's Firefox Web browser might be in the process of being ported to Sony's PlayStation 3
Camino 2.0 tested: The Safari alternative you've been waiting for
Crave Camino has been one of the simplest and cleanest Web browsers for Mac OS X for a while. It just hit version 2.0 and we've loved every minute of testing it for you
The greatest CNET features you've never seen
Crave You may not even have known CNET UK when we published some of most popular features. Collected together here are our essential collection of favourites from the entire history of CNET UK
Modern Warfare 2 headshots entertainment industry records
Crave Activision Blizzard, which publishes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has said it estimates the game has made entertainment industry history by raking in over half a billion dollars in just five days
Win a Sonos S5 music system and CR200 controller worth £600!
Crave In our recent Sonos ZonePlayer S5 story we said the S5 was the most affordable entry into the world of Sonos. That was a total lie, we're afraid: the cheapest way is to win one from us
Asus G51J 3D: Nvidia 3D technology comes to gaming laptops
Crave Asus has built Nvidia's 3D image-processing system into its latest high-end gaming laptop, the G51J 3D. Although the laptop itself might be great, we still hate 3D glasses with a passion
Terrestrial 3D TV: A short history
Crave To celebrate the week of 3D TV coming our way on Channel 4 this week, we thought you might enjoy an excursion down memory lane and into the history of terrestrial 3D telly
Google to penalise slow Web sites?
Crave Should slow-loading Web sites be pushed down Google's search rankings? According to one Google engineer, possibly. The company is mulling the idea over
