Having cemented its position as the dominant player at the top end of the processor market, Intel is looking to spread its wings over the coming years – to evolve and permeate every part of society – leaving no (st)one unturned. Now, it seams, the tech giant wants to get …
Read More »Pirate Bay’s power footprint is equivalent to vacuum cleaner
Since moving to the cloud last week and ditching its servers altogether, The Pirate Bay has reduced its power requirements to that of the average vacuum cleaner, according to the sites current unnamed staff – who presumably aren't the founders, who've been tangling with the Swedish court system for the past few …
Read More »GameStation online shop shuts doors 29th October
The website for high street game retail outlet, GameStation, will be closed officially this time next week, continuing the shut down of the entire chain and its conversion to GAME outlets. Anyone that has a Gamestation account or existing preorders, will have them transferred to GAME's website and any outstanding …
Read More »Sony to drop PS3 Folding@home support
Sony and Stanford University have announced that at the end of October, PS3 consoles will lose their support for the protein folding project, Folding@home, ending a five year relationship, as the Life With PlayStation section is removed from the PS3 dashboard. While some have expressed dismay that they will no …
Read More »Windows 8 ‘non event’ for most companies
Many companies are unlikely to adopt Windows 8, according to experts in the field. Reuters report this morning that many companies used to test a new operating system for adoption, but that Windows 8 released on Friday is likely to be a ‘non event' for most businesses. Doug Johnson, head …
Read More »AMD bundle AAA games with graphics cards
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are hoping that a new campaign will help drive sales of their graphics cards in Q4. They are bundling a series of high quality AAA games with their video cards. The ‘Never Settle' bundle campaign targets a wish list of AAA games such as Dirt ShowDown, …
Read More »Megaupload to be reborn as Mega
Despite Kim Dotcom also pushing next-gen music service, Megabox, he also has plans to bring back Megaupload, under a new banner simply titled: “Mega.” This will be more of an homage to the original service, providing a file locker that is designed to circumvent the legal issues of its predecessor. …
Read More »Hot weekend offers at ARIA!
Had a rough week? Feeling a bit down. Why not treat yourself to some cheap tech goodies courtesy of ARIA? They are currently selling 8GB of the Jet Black Corsair Vengeance low profile DDR3 memory for only £23.99 inc vat. This 1600mhz memory ships with 9-9-9-24 timings and would be …
Read More »Tablets and smartphones continue to hit laptop sales
The growing demand for tablets and smartphones is still hitting global laptop sales hard this year. Intel's financial report for Q3 this year indicates that the notebook sector sales are still not picking up. According to sources close to Digitimes the demand for notebooks will not pick up until 2013. …
Read More »Samsung & Google release ARM based Chromebook
Google are attempting to answer some of the pricing criticisms of their Chromebook range of computers with partner Samsung. The two companies are planning to release an ultrabook style Chromebook laptop which will only cost around £160 in the United Kingdom. This is a huge drop in price from the …
Read More »AMD begins to move away from PC industry
Alongside the news that over 1,000 jobs would be lost to redundancy, last night's Q3 earnings call gave AMD the opportunity to discuss the changes it sees happening in the market – and how it sees itself ten years down the line. One thing was loud and clear, it won't …
Read More »AMD loses over 1,000 jobs during evolution
During last night's Q3 financial call, AMD executives delivered the news that KitGuru has expected for almost a year – a significant reduction in workforce going forward. It simply doesn't need the same workforce going forward as it did in the past. KitGuru pulls out the abacus to calculate the …
Read More »Nintendo is investigating Foxconn child labour claims
Nintendo has announced in the wake of the Foxconn child labour reports – and the company's admission – that it was investigating what happened and how much truth there really is behind the story. As a quick catch up, Foxconn admitted yesterday to taking part in the illegal hiring of …
Read More »Twitter censors neo-Nazi account in Germany
Twitter has blocked German users of the site from viewing the page and tweets of a certain neo-Nazi group, after a request was sent by German police officials to have the page deleted. However it still remains online and viewable elsewhere in the world. The group in question is known …
Read More »Leading Lawyer comments on Apple losing Samsung appeal
Kim Walker, Partner at leading law firm Thomas Eggar, comments on Apple losing its UK court appeal relating to Samsung copying its iPad: “Apple has lost its appeal against the UK ruling that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad. This is an endorsement of Samsung’s tablet design, …
Read More »UK mobile providers team up to speed 4G release
Considering the back and forth arguing of the different mobile providers in the UK about how the 4G auction should be completed, you'd be forgiven for not believing that they've now banded together to speed up the release of the 4G spectrum: but that's exactly what's happened. Vodafone, Everything Everywhere …
Read More »Samsung follows OCZ lead on large-sized SSD pricing
It's like a tiny glimpse into the future. OCZ has been pushing out some very aggressive deals into the market on large scale SSD – and now the big boys are following. The latest game of price-based kiss-chase is happening around the 240/256GB drives. Both Samsung and OCZ have something …
Read More »Moon may have been part of the Earth – scientists claim
The most accepted modern theory of the existence of the moon states that a giant body struck the Earth and this subsequently created the Moon. A new paper published yesterday however by Sarah Stewart and Matija Cuk argues against this theory. The scientists claim that their theory better explains why …
Read More »Win Razer Star Wars: Old Republic laptop – valued at $15,000
It may look a little like a high end Apple laptop, but its not. Razer are giving away their stunning one of a kind Star Wars: The Old Republic gaming laptop which is valued at around $15,000. This sweepstake contest has already been hit hard by the public who are …
Read More »Microsoft Surface tablet – will it be an iPad beater?
Microsoft have enjoyed huge success over the years with their software, including Windows operating systems and Office. Earlier this month however we reported that they wanted to be ‘revinvented as a Devices & Services‘ company. This is a challenging move for the Microsoft Corporation as they have yet to experience …
Read More »The Pirate Bay takes to the cloud, ditches servers
The Pirate Bay has announced the next step in its fight against authority take downs, by ditching its servers in favour of, “ascending into the next stage, the cloud.” “So, first we ditched the trackers. Then we got rid of the torrents,” begins the post on the website's blog. “Now? Now …
Read More »Win a Level 10 Limited Edition Silver Chassis
Beyond Technologies and ThermalTake are offering people the chance to win a stunning, Limited Edition Silver Level 10 Chassis with every purchase of the new Level 10 M Mouse in the United Kingdom. If you missed our review of this fantastic new mouse, then make sure to head to this …
Read More »14 year old Foxconn interns helped build the Wii U
While Foxconn facilities manufacturing Apple products might have drawn the most ire from the world at large in the past couple of years for the way the employees are treated, it looks like those making Nintendo parts have also been cutting corners – by using underage workers. Foxconn has apparently …
Read More »G.Skill free SSD & DDR3 kits Giveaway on event on Facebook!
G.SKILL is hosting a giveaway event on facebook, starting from today until 31st Oct, all users from all countries are allowed to be in the draw! Enter over here!
Read More »Foxconn employed 14 year old schoolchildren
Foxconn Technology Group said they found that interns as young as 14 years old had worked at a facility in Yantai in China. A company investigation located the underage staff, who ranged in ages 14-16. They worked at the campus for three weeks, according to an emailed response send to …
Read More »Apple to release new Mac Mini lineup
Apple are holding an event next week, the time when they are expected to announce the iPad Mini device. Latest reports from 9to5Mac indicate that Apple are going to announce a new range of Mac Mini computers. The new range are said to include new processors and storage options and …
Read More »Google privacy policy breaks European law
Google has been ordered to make changes to its privacy policy after several EU organisations found it to be breaching European law, by not providing enough information to users on the amount and categories of data being collected about them and used for advertising purposes. The search giant revamped its privacy policy …
Read More »Biggest music pirates also buy the most music
A new study by the American Assembly at Columbia University has presented more evidence against the copyright lobbyists' claims that pirates are the biggest music ‘thieves,' suggesting instead that those that download the most music illegally, tend to buy the most music as well. The research analysed the music listening habits of …
Read More »Asus drop price of P8Z77-V LX to £81.32 at Scan
We reviewed the Asus P8Z77-V LX back in July this year and it earned our Worth Buying award. While we had no concerns with the capabilities and performance of the board the issue we had at the time was that the competing Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H was around £12 cheaper. ASUS have …
Read More »Aussie Woolworths ditch Blackberry for iPhone
Woolworths, the largest supermarket chain in Australia are ditching the Blackberry phones used by their staff, in favour of the Apple iPhone. Woolworth's head of customer technology Chris Stanley said that the staff would receive new iPhones shortly. The Australian.com.au wrote a detailed report on the change over. This blow …
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