Apple owners rejoice because Napster have finally released an application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Historians among us will remember that Best Buy bought Napster for $121 million which has helped its survival in this tough climate. The NAPSTER application allows the end user to list to over …
Read More »31,000,000 Halo Reach games have been played in 5 days
Halo Reach is quickly becoming one of 2010's biggest success stories and latest statistics in from Bungie are certainly verifying that gamers are really enjoying the newest title in the franchise. Since the game launched 31,000,000 games have been played across the world. 78,499,560,895 credits have been earned. Campaign mode …
Read More »AMD Drivers available in Steam
AMD have announced that their drivers will now be available via Valve's STEAM software package. Nvidia have yet to commit to any move – although if STEAM ratings are anything to go by it looks as if AMD dominate 87% of the Direct X 11 marketplace. Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice …
Read More »Android showing staggering growth: iPhone down, as predicted
As KitGuru predicted all the major players are starting to lose ground in the US market to the Android machine which is only starting to gain momentum. ComScore, marketing intelligence leader has published its quarterly Mobile Subscriber Market Share findings which has been tracking smartphone subscribers for three months ending …
Read More »iPad pushed to all 1,093 US Best Buy stores on September 26th
The Apple monster continues to roll and US leading retailer Best Buy are going to start selling the ipad in ALL of the US stores from September the 26th to boost holiday sales. Chris Burritt reported the information on BloomBerg and Apple's Chief Executive officer Brian Dunn said: “Expanding iPad …
Read More »Google scary teen stalker fired
Google have been at the center of a rather unpleasant story lately. A google engineer has been caught spying on four underage teens for months. David Barksdale, a 27 year old ex engineer with Google took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the …
Read More »iPad doesn’t dent Mac sales, 3.8 million target for September quarter
Sales Data shows that Apple are on track to sell up to 3.8 million Macintosh computers in the September Quarter, up 23 percent from the same period a year ago. The NPD group data released yesterday charts Apple tracking ahead of Wall Street's expectations of 3.7 million for September quarter. …
Read More »Android OS sales to surpass Blackberry and Apple
Make no mistake, Android is going to take over the world. At KitGuru we firmly believe that Googles smartphone operating system is going to dominate the market, if not this year then in 2011. After we reviewed the Dell Streak a while ago, we were in no doubts this would …
Read More »Apple stop free iPhone 4 bumper case deal
Apple have published a statement on their website saying that they are stopping the free bumper case offer for iPhone 4 users. They are claiming that the antenna issues are ‘smaller than they originally thought'. Their statement says: “We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even …
Read More »Dell and Apple, who is ten times bigger in 2010 ?
Dell's top man Michael Dell has always been an outspoken CEO and in 1997 when asked what he would do if he was in charge of Apple he said “I'd shut it down and give the money back to shareholders.” Unfortunately this was the start of a ‘CEO-style' feud between …
Read More »AT&T spend billions on networking enhancements
AT&T have been sending out news releases and letters to their customers in the last few days which is firing speculation that the carrier may be coming to the final days of the exclusivity deal with the Apple iPhone in the U.S. AT&T have said that this speculation has been …
Read More »are Apple really going to sell 28 million iPads in 2011?
UBS Investment Research have estimated that Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, causing delayed customer purchases of traditional notebooks. “Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,” UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um said. “We …
Read More »Is Android the future?
We have been publishing many stories recently on Google's Android operating system and we even reviewed the new Dell Streak which makes full use of the platform. What many people aren't realising however is that the platform is undergoing some staggering growth trends lately. Android in August has taken share …
Read More »Oracle hire ex HP CEO Mark Hurd
KitGuru reported yesterday that Oracle would be hiring ex HP CEO Mark Hurd and today confirmation has came in that he will be replacing co-represident Charles Phillips, who resigned. Ellison was very outspoken when Hewlett Packard removed Mark Hurd, calling the board ‘idiots‘. “Mark did a brilliant job at HP …
Read More »Google Android phones race to surpass Apple iphone sales
Google will be very happy with the growth of their mobile phone platform. Android sales in August mean they now have a 25 percent marketshare, still some way to go before they catch Apple's 56 percent, but certainly on track. Data firm Quantcast have been analysing sales and Apple are …
Read More »AMD VP details why they ditched ATI brand, but ‘Radeon’ stays
KitGuru were the first to break news that AMD were dropping the ATI name, weeks ago. We might not have gotten credit for it, but we are big enough to take it on the chin. AMD Corporate Brand Vice President John Volkmann has explained in his blog why AMD decided …
Read More »Samsung targeting smartphone market with potential 25 million sales
Samsung, the world's number 2 handset maker are expecting to sell up to 25 million smartphones this year which has exceeded their earlier estimations of 18 million units. JK Shin, the leader of Samsung's Mobile Communications division has told reporters at the IFA trade show in Berlin that the 2010 …
Read More »Toshiba recall 41,000 computers over burn risk
Toshiba has announced the recall of around 41,000 computers across the globe, due to potential overheating and related burn risks. The models they are recalling are the Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite Pro T130 notebook systems according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toshiba are offering customers a …
Read More »MSI N460GTX Hawk – triple overvoltage support for 1GHZ+
MSI have been releasing some brilliant products in 2010 and KitGuru was first to review many of them. Today they have announced the new N460GTX Hawk which comes with Triple Overvoltage function which supports adjustments for core voltage, memory voltage and PLL voltage – which allows overclockers to exceed 1GHZ …
Read More »Apple Live Keynote Stream, limited only to Apple devices?
Apple have announced that they will be live streaming their video of the September media event across the web. This exciting news has somewhat been dulled however by the fact that the stream appears to be only viewable on OS X 10.6 or an iOS device, such as the iPad, …
Read More »Google release ‘Priority Inbox’ – is it any good though?
Google email is still widely adopted by millions of people every year and recently Google have released a new system called “Priority Inbox” which apparently helps to unclutter an overcrowded inbox. The system works based on algorithms which sort through email and move the good content to the top while …
Read More »Foxconn labour cost increases cause gross margin down 1H10
Foxconn have been in the press for all the wrong reasons lately and yesterday they announced their revenues and profits for the first half of 2010. While their revenues for the first half of 2010 went up by 47.6% on year ($36.5 billion) their gross margins were down 0.99 pp …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S Phone sells 1 million units in 6 weeks
Samsung will be proud of their latest achievement – selling over 1 million Galaxy S Phones in the USA across a 6 week time peroid. While this falls way short of the 1.7 million iPhone 4's sold in a single weekend (!), it still proves that there is a large …
Read More »Apple and LG catch up with iPad demand – only 24 hour wait time
iPad sales have been both a blessing and a curse for Apple – they have broken records but have been struggling to meet with the extraordinary demand. With 3.27 million iPads sold to date the demand has been higher than expected and Apple has been forced to push back release …
Read More »Microsoft dedicate $1 billion to be taken seriously in phone market
Microsoft are taking their reentry into the smartphone sector seriously as they will spend over half a billion dollars in marketing costs alone for the Windows Phone 7 launch. TechCrunch posted information according to guest poster Kim Mai Cutler which detailed the fact that Microsoft are throwing serious wads of …
Read More »Microsoft Russia leaks new IE9 appearance
A Russian website has revealed details about the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) which showcases the user interface – highlighting new features such as quick release tabs and a ‘Chrome' style address search bar. Microsoft have issued several developer previews of IE9 since March but they have all, to date, …
Read More »Canon announce 120MP digital camera sensor
Those among you who long for the ‘biggest numbers' when buying new hardware will be over the moon to hear that Canon have announced a 120M megapixel camera sensor. The ‘APS-H' as it will be known can deliver a 13,280 x 9,184 pixel image and the CMOS sensor is so …
Read More »Mac OS X 10.7 to become a hybrid iOS ?
Apple have a fairly unifed operating system which shares similar code algorithms between the main OS X and iOS platforms. Patently Apple have discovered a patent application filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation earlier this year which points to potentially major interface changes. Apple love touch input, the iPad …
Read More »Google purchase visual engine like.com
Google confirmed a few days ago that it has bought search engine like.com – a visual search engine which aids people to match clothes online then purchase direct from retailers. The cost of this purchase has not yet been announced but the latest information released by TechCrunch says it is …
Read More »BitFenix Colossus case to ship September
Bitfenix, a hot new company dealing with chassis designs have a spanking looking case being released in September – entitled the Colossus. The case has undergone some changes since it was originally announced with focus now on adding a steel storage box to improve rigidity and strength. The top and …
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