OCZ have been highly regarded over the years as producing some of the finest memory available on the market and much in the same way as Corsair they have expanded over the years into other hardware markets to enhance their product range. They have recently updated their StealthXStream range of …

Coolit informed us yesterday that they have a large scale competition starting on the 4th August. The concept behind this is to find a use for your old heatsink. Users simply have to take video footage of uses for an old air cooler which they are no longer using. “We …

Microsoft have released a new patch which is an out of band security update for the Windows Shortcut vulnerability. This out of band patch is important as it locks down a loophole which allowed hackers access to user rights of an affected system by code related to Windows Shortcut Files …

Yesterday KitGuru reported on a web based Jailbreaking software interface for your iPhone and today we have found out that there is a very cool feature set available to those who have a hacked iPhone – FaceTime video conferencing over 3G. 9 to 5 Mac have reported on it and …

We currently have some Powercolor and XFX single slot HD5770s heading into our labs and we wanted to show you a picture of the new XFX model. Single slot is the new ‘in thing' for the HD5770s and we feel its long overdue, we have reviewed a plethora of HD5770's …

Not many of us have the luxury of being able to afford three 1080p monitors in the home, however if you are lucky enough to already own a multitude of screens then these prebuilt systems might appeal to you. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 GPUs generate the graphics horsepower to drive …

Jon Peddie Research just in shows that nVidia are suffering from double digit drops in sales within most market segments. Intel and AMD are gaining ground. KitGuru has reported AMD and Intel's successes many times recently, but some of that growth will, naturally, at the expense of nVidia. Let's see …

A few days ago the Library of Congress has said that jailbreaking is legal with their appended Digital Millenium Copyrights Act (DMCA) and since then hackers have introduced a new web browser based iPhone 4 unlocking software package. This software is available on jailbreakme.com which allows the iPhone to be …

Apple have changed the antenna performance page on their website removing references to the performance of competitors smartphones compared directly to the iPhone 4. Apple originally launched this page after the iPhone 4 press conference to demonstrate how a number of other phones see signal attenuation when gripped tightly in …

It seems that performance figures for the first Fusion product from AMD have leaked online. Hardware Info – a german site, appear to have gotten their hands on a leaked table that details the Ontario based accelerated processing unit (APU) is capable of 1.352 GFLOPS of floating point performance. When …

ATi have just released the new beta 10.7a drive for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. This update brings Anti-Aliasing support (which must be enabled through the ATI Catalyst Control Center) for StarCraft II, as well as a performance enhancement for Eyefinity users running with Quad ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. …

KitGuru has been very impressed with Thermaltake this year, their product range keeps getting stronger. We have reviewed a plethora of their products in the last couple of months, such as the very capable 775w PSU, The Contact 29 and Frio Coolers and the cost effective Armor A60 Chassis. They …

Dutch Company A.C. Ryan are a well known organisation who have been supplying after market parts and modding supplies to the community for many years. Today we are taking a look at several of their units, the Playon! HD Media Player with a 1TB Hard drive, and the ‘Mini' version …

Microsoft have been coming under attack due to the £129.99 price point on the Kinect Controller for the Xbox 360 – many feel this is just too much money for the device. Brett Siddons, Microsoft UK's marketing manager spoke to Techradar and he says that the price was fair because …

KitGuru has been covering StarCraft 2 news for the last couple of weeks, in what is assuredly one of the biggest games to be released in 2010. We were even at the crazy launch event in London days ago. If you haven't seen our review of the game yet, then …

If you have been following the news and reviews lately you will have assuredly seen mention of nVidia's stellar new ‘mass market' Fermi card the GTX460 – KitGuru reviewed the overclocked eVGA version and it walked away with very high praise indeed. While it is capable of delivering a fantastic …

Most of us have seen some cool ‘hacks' in movies – but the most widely dreamed about is when we can walk up to an ATM in the street and take out all the money, without anyone knowing. While many people believe this is fictional, it appears that with the …

While many people have been focusing on the ‘antennagate' ordeal with the troubled iPhone 4, Apple have been quietly dealing with issues with the release of the white version of the phone. “As has been suggested before, one of the main dilemmas is argued to have been getting the right …

KitGuru has been reporting lately on the success of the Amazon Kindle price drop which has led to massive sales – which have been so high that Amazon recently published on their site that there was a temporary sell out of Kindle units. Amazon announced two lighter, more advanced units …

A University of Abertay Dundee researcher believes his studies into facial expressions could shape the future of animation by making film and computer game characters more credible. Robin Sloan, PhD student and lecturer based in the Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games, has devised a set of rules to …

KitGuru has reviewed quite a few Buffalo products since we opened a few months ago and so far we have admired their combination of competitive pricing and performance. Many people don't know however that Buffalo offer alternative open source firmwares for their wireless routers which are meant to deliver an …

For a long time now there has been a legal battle between Rambus and nVidia over the use of three specialised patents. The Trade Commission (ITC) has finally delivered a verdict, in favour of Rambus. This case has been centered around the use of three patents which handle the control …

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google are holding talks with gaming companies with the aim to create a new competiting social networking service to go head to head with the ever popular Facebook. Google have been in discussions with the makers of online gaming which include Electronic Arts …

Apple has announced a new Macintosh Pro line up with support for up to 12 processing cores and 50 percent greater performance when compared with the last generation of machines. Apple are going to be using the new Intel quad core and 6 core Xeon processors with clock speeds up …

Many analysts thought the success of the iPad would spell the death of the Kindle, but thankfully the $189 e reader has been riding the iPad wave and has sold out at Amazon. Helped in part by a very successful and well timed price reduction. The company has placed a …

Intel Corporation today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers. The company has developed a research prototype representing the world‟s first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers. The link can move data …

Silverstone have created some stunning products and we have always been avid followers of the Sugo Range which redefined small form factor chassis designs when they were first released, making HTPC both practical and quite beautiful to look at. The Sugo range has been in production for many years now …

ATi have released a new set of drivers – Catalyst 10.7 (which stands for 2010, July month) and they bring some interesting new features to the table. 10.7 driver has GPU acceleration for H264 content in the ever popular VLC media player V 1.1.1. This pull down detection has been …

Wired have been the subject of much discussion lately as Leander Kahney's ‘Cult Of Mac' blog, published by Wired has been the centerpoint of a ‘superguide' showing the end user how to jailbreak their phone and access stolen software. Wired have tried to defend their reasons for publishing the guide …

Dell have stopped selling laptop and desktop machines with Ubuntu preinstalled, but they say they aren't ditching the OS completely as its going to be offered via phone sales. Dell spoke to PC Pro, and a spokesman said “we are currently making some changes to our Ubuntu pages, and as …