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Foxconn have been in the press for all the wrong reasons lately and yesterday they announced their revenues and profits for the first half of 2010. While their revenues for the first half of 2010 went up by 47.6% on year ($36.5 billion) their gross margins were down 0.99 pp …

Microsoft are going to increase the monthly price of Xbox Live Gold starting November 1st – the price will be rising by £1 to £5.99. The UK are not the only region to suffer from a price increase as similar rises are due for the USA and Canada. UK gamers …

With Intel's recent $7.68 billion takeover of McAfee many wouldn't have been expecting the latest $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG's wireless unit. Intel's purchase of Infineon marks an expansion into the wireless device market, an area which has been a struggle for them in the past. This purchase …

The ever popular YouTube website, owned by Google are in talks with Hollywood movie studios to launch a worldwide pay per view video service at the end of 2010 to challenge Apple's dominance for online digital video distribution. Google have been hard pitching to studios on the appeal of streaming …

KitGuru spent the weekend at Newbury Racecourse attending the UK's largest LAN gaming event, Insomnia 40 (i40).  Being gurus of kit, we were mostly interested in the hardware on show from the numerous exhibitors. First of all we had a look at Immacula's stand, displaying products from Alienbags, SteelSeries, Synology …

UK scientists have taken the first step toward helping to solve global food shortages by decoding the wheat genome, meaning they can take the DNA data to help improve annual yields. Dr Anthony Hall and Professor Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool and Dr. Gary Barker and Professor Keith …

Microsoft are taking their reentry into the smartphone sector seriously as they will spend over half a billion dollars in marketing costs alone for the Windows Phone 7 launch. TechCrunch posted information according to guest poster Kim Mai Cutler which detailed the fact that Microsoft are throwing serious wads of …

HP are going to be removed from Dell's Christmas card list after outbidding them again with a $1.8 billion offer for computer storage company 3Par Inc. HP's latest bid works out 11 percent more than Dell's at $27 per share. 3Par had already accepted a $24.30 a share offer earlier …

Mafia was one of the greatest games ever made, when it was released gamers across the globe embraced its combination of rich story line with Grand Theft Auto style game elements. With the successor to be released in a few days, many predict that this game alone will help push …

Here at KitGuru we've been eagerly awaiting the Android 2.2 update on our Vodafone HTC Desire, especially since the recent 2.1 update that added a vast amount of bloatware to our phone!  This update removes all this bloatware (due to numerous complaints on Vodafone's forum) and brings with it all …

A week after Dell agrees to buy 3Par for $1.13bn, HP throws a spanner into the works by offering $1.5bn for the storage specialist. 3Par specialise in software for organising data on corporate servers and provide their services on a subscription based service over the  web.  Their software is designed …

Google confirmed a few days ago that it has bought search engine like.com – a visual search engine which aids people to match clothes online then purchase direct from retailers. The cost of this purchase has not yet been announced but the latest information released by TechCrunch says it is …

The name Foxconn might not be the first you would jot down as a ‘dream employer', but it seems that many people are jumping at the chance to work for them with 400,000 more jobs marked down within the next year. In recent months 12 people of the Foxconn workforce …

News has just reached KitGuru that Intel are purchasing McAfee for $7.68 billion. If that makes your eyes water, then rest assured it won't make much of a dent in Intel's coffers. This move is one of the most dramatic in Intel's history as they clearly want a shift into …

We've all heard of Black Monday, when the world's stock markets collapsed. Wikipedia sums it up nicely here. If you were HP and your biggest reseller moved all of its data centres to Cisco, would that urge you to update the company diaries to read ‘Terrible Thursday'? KitGuru investigates. It …

With the recent removal of CEO Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard are hunting for a new leader. They have named firm Spencer Stuart as the company to spearhead this search. Analysts are saying that possible candidates so far are EMC's Pat Gelsinger, IBM's Steve Mills, Microsoft's Stephen Elop and Motorola's Greg …

Foxconn have been featuring in the press recently after news of 12 suicides among employees, apparently caused by extremely tiring working conditions with dire salary terms. In an effort to improve public relations and company moral Foxconn are initiating rallies with the theme “Treasure your life, love your family, care …

One of the leading UK performance system designers Cryo computing are announcing a range of new laptops. If these are anything like their previous systems I have reviewed then we are in for a treat. The systems are named after ancient Celtic tribes of Britain, Iceni being probably the best …

We published a story yesterday on the Apple executive who was under fire for accepting kick backs for leaking sensitive information. Plantiff Mr Devine yesterday pleaded not guilty to these accusations. Paul Shin Devine was lead in handcuffs and an orange prison suit to appear in Federal court in San …

The world of advertising is a complicated one and almost all sites on the internet need it to survive. Apple have been keen to get into the application market and since June they have been selling ads to run in applications for the iPhone. A potentially massive audience of tens …

KitGuru was speaking this weekend with industry insiders in Taipei and we were informed that capactive touch technology is set to grow to around 50% marketshare in the handset sector in 2011. Young Fast Optoelectronics chairman TJ Lin also spoke to Digitimes about the growth and he said that around …

It seems we can't go a single week without a lawsuit and this week is no different as news has just filtered in that Oracle Corporation are suing Google over patent and copyright infringement in the development of the Android smartphone software. According to Reuters this suit was filed yesterday …

If you happen to like gay porn then you might want to be a little more careful using Bitorrent. Lucas Entertainment has filed its first lawsuit, targeting 53 Bitorrent users said to be sharing the film ‘Kings of New York'. Lucas Entertainment have yet to give detailed reports on why …

South Korean police have raided Google offices yesterday as part of their investigation into whether the search engine giant had illegally collected and stored personal wireless data. Google are already facing several lawsuits in various countries in relation to claims of private wireless data being stored for use in ‘Street …

It would be hard this week to have escaped the name “Mark Hurd” – Hewlett Packards infamous CEO who resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle has been speaking out in defense of Hurd and condemning HP's board for their actions. Hurd and Ellison are apparently …

KitGuru has reported recently that the Apple share in the PC world is slowly growing and it appears that Microsoft are starting to acknowledge that this may prove an issue, long term. They have launched a new section on their Windows 7 website which directly compares their latest and greatest …

KitGuru reported on the forced resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd a few days ago due to sexual harassment allegations. His ‘victim' Jodie Fisher issued a press release saying she was saddened he has lost his job. “I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this. …

Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd has resigned after embarrassing allegations of sexual misconduct – not an ideal way to be leaving such a high profile company. Mark Hurd has had a rather successful five years as HP CEO with his leadership driving the company into generating high levels of profit …

Two months ago Microsoft filed a federal lawsuit against Salesforce.com stating that the online CRM software company was infringing on nine patents which were granted to Microsoft between 1997 and 2007. Microsoft said they they first notified Salesforce.com of this infringement over a year ago. Ironically Microsoft are often on …

Latest news has reached KitGuru that Motorola are working on a new digital tablet device that will allow people to watch their television shows via it, a market obviously dominated right now by the Apple iPad. This device will also have a 10 inch screen and will be running Google's …