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The release of Windows 8 looms ever closer and the operating system is already getting a mixed reception. Windows 7 has proven to be almost as popular for Microsoft as Windows XP, so a little hostility was expected, especially with such dramatic interface changes. Microsoft let consumers try the latest …

Very few game makers are bigger than Activision Blizzard, however even they need to monitor their staff count. They currently employ 7,300 people, according to the last reports in January this year. 600 people are going to be culled in a ‘clean up' campaign inside the organisation. This is said …

The Pirate Bay has just completed a rather large upgrade to their website with its ever-changing URL. They are nearly 100% .torrent file free and are resorting to magnet links from now on. This has been done in order to future proof and protect the website while barely affecting users. The …

AMD look to be taking their battle against Intel to the next level by acquiring SeaMicro Inc for $334 million. SeaMicro are a start up company who produce ‘micro servers' that cram many processors into small chassis. This helps to reduce the physical footprint for businesses and lowers the energy …

Apparently Apple is seriously thinking about producing a 14-inch sized MacBook Air with primary motivation for this sized notebook stemming from the Asia market. It's been determined that Asians are particularly fond of 14-inch notebooks and this size makes up between 35 and 40% of the total notebook market across Asia, …

This morning, every person involved in selling memory in the UK channel was sent an update from their suppliers to say, with immediate effect, all system memory will be jumping in price by at least 20%. Ignoring the ignorant chit-chat, KitGuru goes straight to the sauce and gets the inside …

Hewlett Packard have sacked another 275 people, almost half of the 600 people working in the business unit acquired with the $1.2 billion takeover of Palm in April 2010. The recent redundancies hit after 500 webOS employees were sacked last September after they decided to shut down the TouchPad tablet …

The team behind the cheap-as-chips ARM mini-PC have just announced you can now pre-order your Raspberry Pi Model B units. If you're lucky enough to get a sucessful pre-order you should get your unit within 4 weeks or so by my estimates. The Raspberry Pi team have partnered with Premier …

While it wasn't to be for Samsung's Galaxy S III to rattle the cages at MWC this year, we are at least starting to get some real meat on what Samsung has in store for us with its next flagship handset and we're sure you'll really like the sound of …

With the launch of the iPad coming ever closer, there is much hype about the new ‘retina' display. But what exactly does this mean for the customer? Well we know that the resolution will be much higher than the iPad or iPad 2, coming in at a staggering 2048×1536 pixels. …

The legal action over the ‘iPad' name is being taken to the next level by Proview as they seek to regain ‘worldwide rights'. Proview Electronics are suing Apple for alleged fraud and unfair competition, hoping that they can reclaim ownership after a 2009 sale of the name. Proview, a Taiwanese …

AMD are adding two new models to the AMD FX desktop CPU line-up, the quad-core AMD FX-4170 and the six-core AMD FX-6200. Utilizing the “Bulldozer” multi-core architecture with completely unlocked processor clock multipliers, the AMD FX CPUs continue to provide PC users the enjoyment of higher CPU speeds and related …

Yahoo are claiming that Facebook are infringing on 10 to 20 patents which they own. The NyTimes say that the two companies spoke on Monday to discuss the concerns and the sources involved in leaking the information are not authorised to discuss the issue publicly. Yahoo are asking Facebook to …

Remember all that hype from Nokia last week about getting ready for something pure? Cat's out the bag and now we can give you the Pure details. At MWC just a short time ago Nokia announced the 808 Pureview, its new flagship Symbian device sporting an astonishing 41 megapixel camera. …

Some more info has come to light on the whole delayed Ivy Bridge subject that surfaced a week or so back. When word initially surfaced about the delays we were lead to believe it was the entire lineup that would be affected, but thankfully within a couple of days We …

ASUS decided to launch an Ultrabook striving to gain attention with its stylish, elegant design cues in an equally fitting manner at the Milan Fashion Week in Italy. Say hello to the new Zenbook UX21 Rose Gold Ultrabook. The Rose Gold edition of its UX21 stays with the 11-inch sized, …

Wikileaks have started to publish more than five million emails from a U.S. based global security analysis company which has been likened to a shadow CIA. These emails have been taken by hackers and sources claim they could ‘unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering …

Facebook, the social networking giant have been accused of accessing and reading personal text messages from users on their smartphones according to a report published yesterday in the Sunday times. Facebook have apparently admitted that they accessed personal data on users phones during a test of their own messaging service. …

Today Opera Software is showing off a labs version of the Opera Mobile web browser for Android, now optimized for Intel architecture. This Opera Mobile Labs release will include advanced HTML5 and WebGL demos on the latest mobile devices powered by Intel chipsets. Opera and Intel have been working together …

The latest word on the HDD situation post Thailand's devestating floods last year is a somewhat frustrating one with a report indicating that while the global production capacity of hard drives will increase to 140-145 million units before the end of this quarter (which equates to 80% of the level …

Thanks to the recent addition of Intel's Core i7-3820 to its LGA2011 (Sandy Bridge-E) lineup, the cost of ownership for this platform has dropped by a good chunk. What many of us were wanting to know however is how well this entry level quad core LGA2011 processor can overclock. Does …

The subject of porn is a delicate topic for many people. Teenage men may build up a large collection on their computers at home, but for other people it can be extremely offensive. I think the majority of people reading this will feel that there is a time and a …

Apple CEO was grilled at the annual shareholders meeting yesterday and some of his answers hit hard. Cook said that the company direction without Jobs is still under debate, indicating that he is carefully weighing all the options. Replacing Steve Jobs is no easy task. The iconic Apple leader has …

Although wildly different in terms of size and product portfolio – Intel, AMD and Microsoft are all suffering from the same kind of illness. The world plus dog turned left, toward a future of smartphones, tablets and low-cost-lightweight thinking, while the traditional leaders stayed on the path toward the hugely …

A short time after hearing of supposed lengthy delays in bringing Ivy Bridge chips to market, it's since been more positive news for Intel's third generation, 22nm based Core processors. It came to light a short time after rumours first begun circulating about Ivy Bridge not arriving in the flesh …

According to an upcoming profile of AMD, Forbes said that the companies range of Fusion APU processors were almost included in the 2011 revision of the Macbook Air. AMD lost out to Intel however due to late delivery and reports of high failure rates. “AMD struggled with its new fabless …

If you are in the market for a new laptop, you may want to hold fire on a purchase…. well for another month or so anyway. The channel in Taiwan are expecting to see a drop of 20% on current models, as Intel prepare to release the new Ivy Bridge …

It was hard to miss the news months ago that the CERN lab near Geneva claimed they had broken the speed of light. Einstein's theory of special relativity was apparently defunked. Well until the news hit that it may have been a ‘connection' problem. A source close to the experiment …

Steve Jobs would turn in his grave if he found out that a startup company have managed to stream Adobe Flash onto the Apple iPad. This week the company announced a new version of OnLive Desktop, an iPad application that allows the end user to run a virtual Windows desktop …

While Intel might have coined the phrase ‘computing continuum', the ongoing state of flux seems to belong well and truly to AMD at the moment. Even more changes are being executed as we type. This time it's the channel that's changing. KitGuru checks AMD's inventory for any missing spices. At …