Most of us like a drink on a Saturday night however due to accidents and dangerous drink driving concerns, a new ‘pee analyser' has been developed. A nightclub in Singapore is trialing the product with the hope that they can persuade people to go home safely. Sinagpore's Zouk nightclub has …
Read More »Microsoft stock drops by 11%
Shares of Microsoft dropped badly on Friday, wiping out billions of dollars of the software companies value. This happened after they announced earnings below Wall Street expectations. They dropped by $4,04 or 11.4% to $31.40 in trading on Friday. As we reported earlier in the week, Microsoft missed their financial …
Read More »A Day In The Life Of Carl – Episode Ten
Our Facebook personality Carl – the german geek who interacts with thousands of readers daily is being immortalised with his own Comic strip. We plan on updating this cartoon strip fairly regularly, depending on how popular it proves to be. We like to try and educate, entertain and bring something …
Read More »A Day In The Life Of Carl – Episode Nine
Our Facebook personality Carl – the german geek who interacts with thousands of readers daily is being immortalised with his own Comic strip. We plan on updating this cartoon strip fairly regularly, depending on how popular it proves to be. We like to try and educate, entertain and bring something …
Read More »Tesco’s Blinkbox boosted by Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones continues to be a media force to be reckoned with, as the introduction of the show's third series on Tesco owned and operated on-demand service Blinkbox, saw an increase in year-on-year revenue boost of a massive 632 per cent. Granted we're only comparing the revenue earned on …
Read More »Uber delivering ice cream – same day via taxi
UK'ers are struggling with the heat wave lately, although very few people are really complaining. We all love the sun after all, right? Well to help deal with the temperatures, UBER, the luxury taxi service are delivering ice creams throughout London today. Generally you would book an Uber car through …
Read More »HTC One Mini preorder price set at £379.99
HTC have released the HTC One Mini in the UK with a pre-order price of £379.99. The smartphone has 1GB of ram, 16GB of internal storage (12gb free) and a 1.4 ghz dual core processor. The screen is 4.3 inches with a 720p resolution, less than the HTC One's 4.7 …
Read More »THQ receives approval for official liquidation
That's it folks, the 23 year history of THQ has finally come to an end, as it has received approval for liquidation by Judge Mart F Walrath at a Delaware court heading. Creditors will now be paid using whatever can be made of THQ's remaining assets. THQ filed for bankruptcy …
Read More »WarZ community manager threatens Steam bans and FBI over stolen source code
While it's been a few weeks now since The War Z, changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories (ISS), because of a confliction with the upcoming movie, World War Z adapted from Max Brooks' novel, that doesn't mean the drama over that buggy, ban happy, pay-to-win game is over with. …
Read More »Nokia Lumia outsells Blackberry
Nokia have generated an operating loss of £98.8 mllion in the second quarter and revenues have fallen 24% as they have struggled to turn their handset business around. It isn't all bad news for the company however as their Lumia smartphones have outsold rival Blackberry. This is seen as very …
Read More »Acer Iconia A1-810 8 inch Tablet Review
Today we are going to take a look at the Acer Iconia A1-810 tablet which is designed for those users who are looking to enjoy the benefits of a tablet without spending a fortune. In fact, this particular model is available from around £160, which sounds like an exciting proposition if …
Read More »Power your mobile phone with urine
A group of scientists at Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the United Kingdom have managed to create a new power source for a mobile phone – urine. While not exactly the most practical or hygienic way to keep your iPhone or Samsung smartphone running, it is part of a project to …
Read More »A Day In The Life Of Carl – Episode Eight
Our Facebook personality Carl – the german geek who interacts with thousands of readers daily is being immortalised with his own Comic strip. We plan on updating this cartoon strip fairly regularly, depending on how popular it proves to be. We like to try and educate, entertain and bring something …
Read More »Google earnings below expectations. Mobile is blamed
Google have announced second quarter earnings which are below analyst estimates. The details have been shared on this page. It seems they are still struggling to get to grips with mobile advertising. Google's CPC (cost per click) rate dropped a noticeable 6 percent. This is an indication of how much …
Read More »Samsung release new high capacity 840 EVO SSD range
This year has seen the addition of many high capacity solid state drives, with prices continuing to be driven down. Samsung have announced that they are adding a new EVO line to their ever popular 840 SSD line up. The new 840 EVO models will be offered in capacities up …
Read More »Toshiba claim Exceria Pro is world’s fastest SD card
Buying an SD card is not normally the most exciting task. Online there are literally hundreds to choose from and often the focus is on just getting the best deal. For sports photographers however it is important that some of the focus is placed on the performance. Toshiba are claiming …
Read More »Big tech firms urge Obama to allow PRISM disclosure
One of the biggest problems with the US government's PRISM information gathering program, is that it forbids many of the companies involved from being open about what information has been shared – making it hard for anyone to know exactly what data has been collected about them. Yesterday though, many …
Read More »NVIDIA Splinter Cell Blacklist competition winners announced
Nvidia partnered up with us for a very cool competition to win codes for SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST – we had hundreds of entries on our facebook page in the last week and the five winners have been announced today. They are Sanzhar Ramankulov – Benji TheReverend Sharpe – Farouk Hussein Dimaporo Alonto – Ryan Lee and Jordan Melecio – we …
Read More »OCUK offering to-your-rig hardware delivery at next iSeries LAN
While LAN parties are great for many things, they're not great for rig-envy. You know that feeling, when a nerd as classy as yourself feels totally outdone by someone sporting a nicer case than you, a newer GPU, a better watercooling loop. Fortunately, when your wallet gets that itch to …
Read More »Netflix and Spotify combat piracy, by just existing
Who'd have though it? If we'd all been drinking the media lobbyist cool-aid for the past decade, we'd have been under the belief that the only way to tackle piracy, was to crush individual uploaders and downloaders under massive fines and scare them into never touching a PC again, when …
Read More »No dawdling in Team Fortress 2 from now on
Valve's item system for Team Fortress 2 has been a resounding success, but it's seen an unscrupulous few, idle in games simply to get their hands on new ones. No longer though, as Valve has updated the game, meaning you have to be actively playing in order to receive the …
Read More »Cult classic Firefly to continue in new mobile game
The internet might often be considered a hateful place but there's a lot of love there too. It loves babies doing dumb things, cats and Joss Whedon's Firefly series. Unfortunately, the space-faring TV show only ran for one season and one feature length movie, with fans left with nothing to …
Read More »Exclusive interview with Joran Schoonderwoerd from MSI
Anyone who can remember progressing from a Commodore 64 to a PC – largely with gaming in mind – can rest assured that it's a very familiar path for the KitGuru editorial team. When we got the opportunity to interview MSI's Product Manager, Joran Schoonderwoerd, we were definitely interested. Read on …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and 8.0 launched in India
Samsung have launched The Tab 3 211 7 inch and the Tab 3 311 8 inch in the Indian market. They are charging Rs. 17,745 and Rs 25,725 respectively for the devices, which are both 3G capable. The Tab 3 310 8 inch is also going to be available as Wi-Fi …
Read More »Android gets BitTorrent share ‘n’ sync tool
The new BitTorrent share ‘n' sync tool called BitTorrent Sync has been released after Alpha testing, available to download for Android devices. Having used the Alpha for a short while, I can say there really isn't much in the software to make it stand out from competitors such as DropBox. …
Read More »Women paving the way for tablet growth
Men may be seen globally as being most interested in new technology but UK research has detailed that more women are using tablets than men. A survey of 3,824 British adults by YouGov show that women claim 52 percent of tablet market share in the UK, up from 43 percent …
Read More »Autonomous cars on UK roads by end of year
A government policy paper was published this week, showing that Autonomous cars will be tested on UK roads before the end of the year. The BBC say that trials will take place on less busy rural and suburban roads using the ‘semi autonomous mode' which will allow a driver to …
Read More »A Day In The Life Of Carl – Episode Seven
Our Facebook personality Carl – the german geek who interacts with thousands of readers daily is being immortalised with his own Comic strip. We plan on updating this cartoon strip fairly regularly, depending on how popular it proves to be. We like to try and educate, entertain and bring something …
Read More »Honda create 130mph mower with 1000cc motorbike engine
Sometimes we like the bizarre side of technology and nothing I have read this month has been more bizarre than Honda deciding to turn a lawnmower into a high performance vehicle capable of speeds up to 130mph. Their new HF260 Lawn Tractor is capable of hitting 60mph from a dead …
Read More »Whatsapp dropping up-front fee on iOS
Whatsapp, one of the world's most popular communication platform – the owners even claim it has more messages and regular users than Twitter – has announced it is finally going free on iOS – at least for the first year. After that, you'll need to cough up the princely sum …
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