Adobe have finally admitted in a blog post that there is a ‘weakness' in the implementation of Flash cookies, or as Adobe call them ‘local shared objects (LSOs). This issue allowed other websites, not Adobe, to track user behaviour, even after a user has cleared the traditional web cookie. This …
Read More »Youtube mobile views triple – causing issues for providers
Google, owner of YouTube has announced statistics which show that mobile viewers tripled by headcount in 2010. Today, they are receiving over 200 million video views a day from mobile devices, with the highest percentage from smartphones. This is a healthy indication of just how many people are using smartphone …
Read More »AMD’s perfect CEO candidate revealed by KitGuru
Using KitGuru's ring of global spy satellites, we have managed to piece together the job description for Dirk Meyer's replacement as CEO. It does not really look like a normal job description, but we're certain that this the basis of AMD's search for an ideal candidate. KitGuru prepares to reveal …
Read More »Wikileaks Julian Assange charged in US with ‘treason’
Julian Assange, the controversial founder of Wikileaks has been accused of treason by a Florida resident who is seeking damages for ‘distress' caused by the site's revelations about the US government. The unhappy chap, otherwise known as David Pitchford, is a trailer park resident in Florida and he names Assange …
Read More »Nintendo 3DS UK pre-orders up to £300
One of the most hotly awaited pieces of mobile hardware is coming to the UK on March 25th. The asking price is still pretty much guess work, but some retailers are asking for up to £300. WHSmith, Woolworths have targeted the price to be £300, but they are saying that …
Read More »Microsoft fight Apple for ‘App Store’ trademark
Microsoft are appealing to the US Patent and Trademark Office to get the term ‘App Store' from the clutches of Apple. Apple applied for this trademark in 2008, just before it opened the iPhone Application Store and when online software delivery was only starting to take off. Microsoft seemingly want …
Read More »OCZ leaving Ram behind to focus on SSD
OCZ has shocked the industry by announcing that they are leaving the RAM market behind to concentrate on the SSD sector, which is the source of much profit for the company. OCZ only make 22 percent of their overall profits from memory in the third financial quarter. Ryan Petersen, CEO …
Read More »MySpace suffering badly, firing 500 workers
MySpace, the once popular social networking site is suffering from big advertising losses due to a declining user base. The latest news is that they are paying off 500 people in a restructuring change. Yahoo are already showing an interest in the business plan. Robert Murdoch, the chief honcho of …
Read More »Intel and nVidia shake hands with $1.5B deal
nVidia and Intel have announced a six year cross licensing deal worth $1.5BN which resolves a long term patent dispute between the two companies. This could mean a potential integration of Nvidia GPUs with Intel's processors. The agreement announced earlier this week means that Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion …
Read More »Dirk Meyer moves from AMD: Dirk Shirked? – KitGuru Exclusive
In a shocking revelation coming at the end of the most successful CES in more than a decade, KitGuru has learned that Dirk Meyer will not be in charge of AMD for 2011. Likely to be announced in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times over the next 72 hours, …
Read More »Facebook revenues $1.2 billion across nine months
Facebook growth is staggering in recent months. Latest reports from Goldman Sachs show that they raked in $1.2 billion across the first nine months of 2010. Facebooks net income in the first nine months of 2010 peaked at $355 million and Goldman values the company now at $50 billion and …
Read More »Asus to release Kinect clone ‘WAVI Xtion’ for PC audience
If you have been eyeing the Kinetic for the Xbox 360, but aren't willing to move to a console platform, then ASUS might just have the product you want in 2011. Their Kinetic clone will be called the WAVI Xtion and they are planning to showcase it at the CES …
Read More »Nintendo 3DS pictures hit the web
Pictures claiming to be the upcoming 3DS handheld console from Nintendo have been circulating on the internet today. The images, which first appeared on a gaming forum, show the 3DS in a black shell. The latest images show the start, home and select buttons level with the plastic under the …
Read More »Nintendo issue 3DS health warning for young kids
Many gamers are waiting anxiously for the new Nintendo 3DS, the 3D portable gaming device which is set to take the portable gaming market by storm. Strangely, Nintendo have issued a warning that the device should not be used by children under 6 when in full 3D gaming mode. Nintendo …
Read More »Google TV is failing to generate a buzz
Google do many things right. They still have the most comprehensive online search engine and their Android operating system is taking the world by storm. But for every success story there has to be a product sitting in the shadows, failing to excite customers. Google TV was expected to be …
Read More »Microsoft Kinect, some cool mods and uses
The Microsoft Kinect device for the Xbox 360 has been a surprise success story, selling millions of units since it was released. As with many popular pieces of hardware, the modding community are out in full force finding weird and wacky uses for the motion sensing device. Many owners found …
Read More »Looking forward to 2011 – and don’t forget the freebies
Yes, It is the time of year for a little bit of a wind down. When we relax with friends and family, eat far too much, have one drink (or more) too many and play with new tech gadgets. As I have a cool bottle of champagne open right now what better …
Read More »Logitech tells Gigabyte to stop shipping Revue
Logitech have instructed Gigabyte Technology to stop shipping Revue set top boxes from December 2010 to January 2011 while it waits for Google to complete software updates or release a new version of the Google TV software package. Market analysts had predicted that shipments of the Revue STB's would exceed …
Read More »Catalyst Maker Terry Makedon moves to Fusion
Public hero and driver guru Terry Makedon, known to everyone as ‘Catalyst Maker' will be moving jobs within AMD. He wanted to let our readers know of his plans and he is excited about what lies ahead in 2011. I had a chat with him earlier today. He told us …
Read More »Apple aim iAd Producer as code free replacement for Flash
Apple have released iAd Producer, a new software package to design interative, media rich adverts using web standards for distribution through its iAd network within iOS applications. This is a direct attack on Adobe's Flash developer tools, todays industry standard suite for the same thing. Apple's new HTML5 development package …
Read More »Futuremark release 3DMark 11 update
3DMark 11 has been released now for a week, and already Futuremark say they have received around 200,000 result submissions from overclockers and enthusiasts across the globe. They have found a few issues that they didn't catch during their own testing phase and they have just released an update to …
Read More »Relive your childhood with RC Arctic Cooling Land Rider
At Christmas I would imagine many of us would like to relive our childhood. The good old days when we got remote control cars and Lego boxes under the tree. Arctic Cooling have just announced that they are selling a series of remote controlled vehicles to help all us geeks …
Read More »Bank Of America next for DDOS attack?
The Bank Of America may very well be making the shortlist for a new raft of DDOS attacks as it has been announced that they have stopped their payment handling for the Wikileaks website. The Bank Of America have said “Wikileaks may be engaged in activities that are… inconsistent with …
Read More »EU announce concerns over Intel McAfee takeover
The European Union are showing an interest in the recent takeover of McAfee by Intel. Since Intel were fined $1.45 billion for anti trust behaviour they have been on the radar of the EU. The Wall Street Journal published a news story stating that a questionnaire is being circulated by …
Read More »Google add a ‘hacked site’ alarm into search results
Google have recently added a new feature to their search engine algorithm – a new warning to try and steer users away from compromised sites in their search results. Google now have a system in place that can tell if a site has been hacked, and a sentence will appear …
Read More »BPI claim that 1.2 billion songs were stolen in 2010
The BPI is painting a rather damning picture of the music download scene in 2010, claiming that 1.2 billion songs were illegally downloaded in 2010, costing the music industry £984 million. On the BPI site they say: “In 2010, illegal music downloading continues to rise in the UK. The number …
Read More »Swedish prosecutor website gets hacked
‘Anonymous' are clearly proving the critics wrong, having been branded by other groups as a bunch of script kiddies. They have managed to hack and take down the Swedish Prosecution Authorities website – the organisation set on going after WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange. The attack by Anonymous caused the site …
Read More »Government websites could be hacked in Wikileaks revenge attacks
Websites which hold personal data of British taxpayers could be next in line for computer hackers – who are keen to target organisations who are seen as enemies of Wikileaks. A wide range of companies have been attacked by ‘Anonymous', an online network, after withdrawing support for Wikileaks in response …
Read More »Gawker Media get hacked
Gawker Media had a rough weekend, as websites they owned stopped publishing new content over the weekend after hackers gained access to their servers. Sites such as Gizmondo and Jezebel published information telling their readers to change passwords – issuing a statement saying “our user databases appear to have been …
Read More »Diskeeper release viral video to highlight fragmentation issues
It seems that many companies try the ‘viral' video approach now when trying to highlight a computer problem. The latest to join the fray are Diskeeper who have released a rather amusing little video showing how a business executive loses his cool when he finds that his computer is taking …
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