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Nokia were once the outright leaders in the mobile market but in the last few years we have been watching the company weaken, every month. In the last three years their shares have fallen by 49 percent and they have dropped 30 places across 12 months in a global brand …

Best Buy are hinting that the Apple iPad is killing the notebook market, cutting sales by as much as 50 percent. Best Buy announced earlier this week that all 1,093 of their stores in the US would be stocking the iPad later this month. They have also announced a 61 …

Whether you love them, or love to hate them, 2010 has been a very strong year so far from the shiny fruit maker from Cupertino. Their shares lately have been reflecting their business strength and shares closed at an all time high with an increase of $6.35 (up 2.35%). Apple's …

As KitGuru predicted all the major players are starting to lose ground in the US market to the Android machine which is only starting to gain momentum. ComScore, marketing intelligence leader has published its quarterly Mobile Subscriber Market Share findings which has been tracking smartphone subscribers for three months ending …

The Apple monster continues to roll and US leading retailer Best Buy are going to start selling the ipad in ALL of the US stores from September the 26th to boost holiday sales. Chris Burritt reported the information on BloomBerg and Apple's Chief Executive officer Brian Dunn said: “Expanding iPad …

Intel have launched their new AppUp Centre Software store which focuses on application support for their Atom based Netbooks. The whole concept of Appup is to give netbook users a one stop shopping experience for applications catered specifically to support their devices. This project grew from the Atom Developer Program …

Nokia held an event yesterday in London called ‘Nokia World' and they presented four new smartphones to help win back customers from rivals such as Apple. Nokia's design strategy director said that he expects attractive hardware design to become increasingly important in order to win new smartphone buyers as the …

Amazon have released a new Kindle advertisement which mocks Apple's iPad while highlighting the low price of the third generation Kindle device. The advertisement shows a man at the side of a pool trying to read an iPad. Unable to make out the writing he asks the women next to …

Sales Data shows that Apple are on track to sell up to 3.8 million Macintosh computers in the September Quarter, up 23 percent from the same period a year ago. The NPD group data released yesterday charts Apple tracking ahead of Wall Street's expectations of 3.7 million for September quarter. …

The iPad has generated a lot of money for Apple, with geeks across the globe latching onto its portable goodness and high quality screen. Latest rumours in however show that a new version is already in the cards for release next year. The Apple iPad is a great product, but …

Microsoft delivered a rather wacky ‘celebration' a few days ago when their Windows Phone 7 OS achieved ‘release to manufacturing' status. They held a rather weird funeral parade for the Blackberry and iPhone. This parade was held through the companies Redmond Campus, and was initially reported on by NeoWin. The …

On Saturday Apple opened a new store in the York Region at Upper Canada Mail in Newmarket, Ontario. As with every Apple store launch, it was an almost religious experience with hundreds of people waiting in line for the final moments. By 8 a.m., hundreds had staked out a spot …

Make no mistake, Android is going to take over the world. At KitGuru we firmly believe that Googles smartphone operating system is going to dominate the market, if not this year then in 2011. After we reviewed the Dell Streak a while ago, we were in no doubts this would …

Apple have published a statement on their website saying that they are stopping the free bumper case offer for iPhone 4 users. They are claiming that the antenna issues are ‘smaller than they originally thought'. Their statement says: “We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even …

Intel top dog Paul Otellini said in an interview yesterday that the first Google TV devices will start shipping in September. He has also launched a rather scathing attack on Apple TV – probably because it is using an ARM chip rather than a Pentium M. Otellini said that he …

UBS Investment Research have estimated that Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, causing delayed customer purchases of traditional notebooks. “Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,” UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um said. “We …

When we were at Insomnia 40 last weekend we came across the Alienbags stand, who were displaying a selection of Alienware-branded laptop bags.  Well we managed to talk them into letting us have a sample of the Orion Messenger bag from their stand for review. As we mentioned in our …

We have been publishing many stories recently on Google's Android operating system and we even reviewed the new Dell Streak which makes full use of the platform. What many people aren't realising however is that the platform is undergoing some staggering growth trends lately. Android in August has taken share …

We reported a few days ago that Samsung have high hopes for their Android based smartphone sales this year and it looks as if they may be expanding into the television market to tackle Sony and Apple, according to Bloomberg. Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung's TV business told reporters …

Apple's iPad has been one of the biggest success stories in the tech world in 2010 with many millions being sold since launch a few months ago. The latest news in is that Lloyds of London are going to be testing out the iPad as a replacement for the paper …

Google will be very happy with the growth of their mobile phone platform. Android sales in August mean they now have a 25 percent marketshare, still some way to go before they catch Apple's 56 percent, but certainly on track. Data firm Quantcast have been analysing sales and Apple are …

On paper, Apple's new social media service Ping was a great idea, but unfortunately according to Sophos it has already been abused by people spamming the system and trying to offload phoney gadgets. The Ping network service integrates with iTunes 10 to let users follow their favourite artists and to …

Samsung, the world's number 2 handset maker are expecting to sell up to 25 million smartphones this year which has exceeded their earlier estimations of 18 million units. JK Shin, the leader of Samsung's Mobile Communications division has told reporters at the IFA trade show in Berlin that the 2010 …

Cryo Computers are a UK system builder at the top of their relevant market, I have reviewed many of their systems in the past, including the stunning carbon fibre Cryo Nano and the watercooled, overclocked high end 980X based Nemesis SE. If you want a sexy custom system build then …

Apple have announced a much smaller and cheaper version of the Apple TV set top box. This new release also heavily promotes the introduction of rentable TV shows, a move that many people have wanted to see from quite some time. The new Apple TV is smaller than a quarter …

Microsoft are investing hundreds of millions into their new Windows Phone 7 SmartPhone platform and they reached their release to manufacturing phase yesterday, September 1st 2010. Microsoft are keen to take mobile market share from big players Apple and Google and the RTM stage means that Microsoft's partners can integrate …

Intel have been spending a huge amount of money lately … $7.7 billion dollars on security company McAfee and recently $1.4 billion on Infineon. It is clear they are focusing on the mobile marketplace with these purchases, especially when the MeeGo mobile operating system partnership with Nokia is taken into …

For the last couple of months, Apple have been taking a high priority in the press with the iPhone 4 antenna issues. The solution was to give everyone who experienced issues a free case. Telcel, a Mexican mobile carrier have said that after September 30th Apple are releasing revised iPhone …

Apple have announced that they will be live streaming their video of the September media event across the web. This exciting news has somewhat been dulled however by the fact that the stream appears to be only viewable on OS X 10.6 or an iOS device, such as the iPad, …

Technology advances at a staggering rate, and researchers at the University of Michigan have created a new display with nanometer thin sheets of metal that use slits to create pixels eight times smaller than those used on the iPhone 4. These Nanoresonators could possibly be the future for high quality …