Regular readers of Kitguru will be aware that Apple are currently in the middle of a legal trademark wrangle with Amazon, trying to get them to stop using the term ‘App Store'. Apple have claimed that Amazon have used the term to confuse users as ‘App Store' is associated immediately …

The WII U won't make for an ideal media console as it won't support either DVD or BluRay technology, according to Nintendo. Currently the Xbox 360 supports DVD and the Playstation 3 both DVD and Bluray discs. Nintendo spoke to analysts at a question and answer sessions at the E3 …

Google have released information on a new search feature, which they are calling ‘Instant Pages'. This will give Chrome users faster connections to websites from links on search results. Instant Pages will apparently reduce times taken with a search process and it will be included in the latest test version …

Microsoft haven't had the best launch for their latest Windows Phone 7 operating system, but they might take some comfort that the latest IDC WorldWide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report indicates that they could surpass Apple's iOS platform by 2015. IDC are making predictions that Android will have 43.8 percent …

KitGuru gets access to a lot of data as it flows across the interwibble. With launches and delays part of the ebb and flow of modern computing, it must be particularly annoying when one company's glory is interfered with by another product's failure to launch. KitGuru fills a glass of …

Back in the nineties, computer companies were opening up all over the place and everyone seemed to know someone who was working in the UK system building industry. Now things are very different. As news of a spate of closures reaches KitGuru, we look around to see who's fallen and …

Cupertino City Major has given his full support for Apple's new campus in the city. Gilbert Wong said “Cupertino is ready for this.” KitGuru reported on this a few days ago and Steve Jobs will be very happy that his plans can go ahead. Their new building will be able …

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has presented the companies plans to build a second campus in Cupertino, California which could hold 12,000 Apple employees. The current campus at One Infinite Loop holds around 2,600 employees. Jobs said “Apple's grown like a weed. And, as you know, we've always been in Cupertino. …

Microsoft have a lot riding on the upcoming release of Office 365 and CEO Steve Ballmer has said that it will be launching in the very near future, later this month. “We're pushing hard in the productivity space. We'll launch our Office 365 cloud service, which gives you Lync and …

A thief in Oakland, California wasn't so lucky when the laptop he stole was calling back with images of the crook to the legal owner. Muthanna Aldebashi of Alameda was arrested this week on suspicion of possessing stolen goods, according to a police spokeswoman who spoke to the San Francisco …

Sony are finding themselves under constant attack, with the latest news emerging that Sony Ericsson servers have been targeted in Canada. Worse, it appears that email address and encrypted passwords of 2,000 customers are now with the hackers. Sony have been constantly reeling over the last month, as groups of …

Preparation for Computex is never a quick and painless ordeal for the companies involved. We chatted this morning with Arctic Cooling and they are really excited about Computex this year. Representative Timothy Yun said “We have worked wholeheartedly in every part of the exhibition including booth design, product and display …

Macintosh users love the fact that they get very few virus infections, but there is a new and rather sinister program which is targeting the user base. Research is showing that the infection is four to five times higher than normal. The Malware is devious, because it is posing as …

An Israeli couple have decided to call their baby after the ‘like' button on Facebook. In Israel, the most popular names are Noa, Tamar and Maya. Parents Vardit and Lior Adler have broken with all tradition in naming their new baby after a Facebook button. The couple who live in …

When a friend tells you that there are plenty of fish in the sea, they don’t normally mention the sharks. That was a policy followed by the world’s number one dating site myedate.com, Match.com, until now. KitGuru takes a peak over the blind date wall to see what really lurks …

Top secret information on Britain’s nuclear forces is something that we’d all like to believe are, well, secure. Seems that some of the important controller types at the MoD have missed a few of the ‘Microsoft Word for Beginners’ course on offer – with serious results. KitGuru slips past Checkpoint …

It has been pretty well covered since the release of its predecessor, with a mountain of conjecture and hopes piling up across gamer forums, but now it looks like Rockstar has confirmed its target date for the release of GTA 5. KitGuru fakes a pit pass and heads to the …