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Security experts at Venafi, the leader in enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, warn that an estimated 67,000 mobile phones are likely to be lost or stolen during the Olympics in London. Numbers of smartphones and other portable networked devices have exploded over the past few years. As a …

HTC Desire HD users are getting used to feeling like the iPad's poor cousins, especially now it seems that they won't get access to Android's Ice Cream Sandwich. KitGuru licks around the edge of the story to prevent dribbles. While there are, no doubt, benefits to Microsoft's ‘pay big or …

Back in June, an act hired to entertain a Microsoft ensemble, decided to engage in some four-letter jokes, which caused the software giant some embarrassment. Now it's emerged that an ‘in joke' from its HyperV Virtualisation team has caused an issue. KitGuru examines this boob for size and impact. Someone …

Amazon has slipped under the sheets with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, in a bid to bring TV programmes like The West Wing and Fringe, to the Amazon Prime Instant Video library. Now with this deal locked down, Prime Instant Video users and owners of the Kindle Fire tablet, will …

Megaupload founder and current defendant facing money laundering and copyright infringement charges, Kim Dotcom, has released a music video entitled “Mr President,” that challenges Barack Obama to weigh in on the cloud storage firm's case. Arrested in the early days of 2012 shortly after Megaupload was taken down, Mr Dotcom's …

Microsoft have officially reported their first quarterly loss in its history. As we reported a short while ago, they were forced to write off some of the value of their online advertising business. They had to write down the value of Aquantive by $6.2 billion, which failed to bring the …

Four Youtube videos were removed earlier this week, apparently due to copyright claims for the music involved. They featured US president Obama singing the opening line of Al Green's ‘Lets Stay Together'. One of the videos was used by the Mitt Romney Campaign to show the president as ‘too friendly …

Yahoo have said in a regulatory filing that the new CEO Marissa Mayer could be earning close to $60 million to turn the company around. The giant salary includes stock options, equity grants, a payment for the Google shares she left behind and a one time $30 million ‘retention award'. …

Honda are recalling around 321,000 cars and small SUV's around the globe because the doors may not close properly. The recall affects 314,000 CR-V small SUVs from the 2012 range and 7,300 Acura ILX small luxury cars from the 2013 range. The problems are related to the doors. Honda claim …

Following AMD's early heads-up to the market that it could miss its stated target for 2012, it comes as little surprise that today's numbers are not strong. So what next for AMD and how should it react?  KitGuru leans against a Wall in the Street and ponders whether money ever …

The world's third largest bot net, known as Grum and  thought to be responsible for around 18 per cent of the world's email spam, has been shut down. While the confirmation of the downing was made by security firm Fireeye, several other groups were also involved, including: anti spam network …

Senators in the US have been grilling Facebook's privacy and policy manager Rob Sherman, over the company's facial recognition technology. While they saw little wrong with the traditional manual photo tagging tools made available to users, the Senate was keen to learn more about Facebook's tag suggestions: how they work …

Each generation of graphic card contains a champion, one card that not only outsells most of the market – but does so at a sensible price point and healthy margin. For nVidia, in 2012, that card is the GTX660. KitGuru finds launch plans on a train to Timbuktu and informs …

In one of the more interesting stories this morning Apple have been ordered by a UK judge to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of their iPad, according to Bloomberg. They said that the judge has forced a notice to remain on Apple's website for a period …

Microsoft are launching Windows 8 on October 26th this year. Steve Sinofsky, the Windows OS chief unveiled the date at the Microsoft annual sales meeting. To add weight, Microsoft updated a blog post with the information. Having tried the operating system I do remain completely unimpressed, particularly with the Metro …

Vivendi SA, the company with a 61 per cent stake in Activision Blizzard, has purportedly called in the assistance of both Barclays and Goldman Sachs to help facilitate and broker the sale of the publishing house, though to whom, is currently unknown. One of the rumours circulating around sites like …

YouTube has announced new privacy pro feature that allows video uploaders to blur the faces of everyone in a video with just a simple click. According to the blog post detailing the feature, the idea is to allow anonymity for those that need or deserve it. Examples given include children …

While many companies have been centered in the sights of copyright lobbyists over the past few years, one of the biggest that performs the same sort of search functions as many a torrent site, Google, seemed to skate by with ease – presumably because in most instances its staggering financial …

Electronics manufacturer Foxconn, is set to open a new fabrication plant in Indonesia, that will purportedly cost around a billion dollars to build. However once created, it's said that it will open up a million jobs for the local inhabitants. This would be a welcome investment in the region, where …

Here at KitGuru, we run regular polls to know what you, dear reader, think. Sometimes the results are predictable and sometimes they are balanced. But every now and then, we get a huge surge in opinion – and it's all leaning one way. The single biggest emotion/response to Facebook's new …

Following on from the Amazon river safari and its whistlestop tour of certain Antarctic areas in 2010, Google's Streetview has now added a host of new images to its library, making it possible to further explore the region. Now available are shots of Shackleton, Scott's Hut, the South Pole telescope, …

In a world full of doom and gloom, it's nice to see a little rainbow glow coming from Castleford. With today's announcement, Target Components can draw a positive line under its efforts in recent years, to combat the nation's negativity and offer something a little more chirpy. KitGuru peers through …

Research conducted by Varonis Systems Inc. (http://www.varonis.com), the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, has found that while 80 percent of companies do not allow their employees to use cloud based file synchronization services, 70 percent of companies would use these services if they were as robust as internal …

Jack and Coke, Cheese and Onion, Thelma and Louise. Some things are just better in combination with each other. The cooks down at Aria have been analysing what it is that customers actually buy (as opposed to what combinations you think they will be interested in) and created a new …

Valve have been working hard on getting STEAM ported to Ubuntu. They have also placed focus on Left 4 Dead 2 as a first, ‘showcase' title for the platform. The popular software company talked about this recently on their blog. Phoronix were the first to break the story back in …

Customers wishing to get their hands on the $35 Raspberry Pi mini ARM PC have had to register their interest with their partners up until today before they could place an order. Fortunately for everyone else, from now on it will be considered as a general delivery item which means …

Microsoft have been showcasing their upcoming Office 2013 release. Quirky CEO Steve Ballmer has described the upcoming release as the companies ‘most ambitious release' to date. The software is targeting mobile devices, social networking and cloud computing. With a user base of a billion people worldwide, it is also the …

The largest internet service providers in the United Kingdom were ordered at the end of April to bloc access to the Pirate Bay file sharing website. The BBC filed a report today which highlights that the action has had little effect on file sharing. Not really a shock to us …

The move from desktop to laptop was gradual. Given that we've had portable computing solutions since 1981, it took until the last part of 2008 before the laptop became the dominant PC life form. The latest research shows that Apple's forte will take a lot less time to pass laptops. …

Two of the biggest BitTorrent trackers in the world, OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) have gone offline to protest a silence by the makers of Utorrent, over a money saving protocol enhancement – or lack thereof. Being not-for profit trackers, both OBT and PBT are sensitive to waste, especially when …