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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 …

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 …

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 …

We all know companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and others, have been sharing information with the authorities in the US for quite some time, but now it's come to light that Microsoft even allowed the NSA to record video conversations people were having using the VOIP service, Skype. This …

You'd be forgiven for not really taking this research about Apple and Google seriously, considering how many smartphones and other devices each company has sold in the last year, but apparently it is the case. According to YouGov BrandIndex, Americans really aren't as fond of both firms as they were …

ARMA I, II and III, developer Bohemia Interactive, has announced that its website was hit by hackers and that some personal information may have been copied out from its user database. As a safety precaution, it has announced that all passwords will be reset. “We have unfortunately discovered that an …

League of Legends is a popular game in its own right, but it's also a flagship competitive esports title and that means the best teams in the world get a lot of support. To help improve that, Riot Games has now introduced team badges for average Joes, meaning you and …

All our polls show the opposite, but PC World and Currys are predicting that the Microsoft Xbox One will be the UK's best selling tech gift at Christmas this year. DSG, the parent group of both PC World and Currys were accurate with their predictions last year. They said that …

The traditional mouse we use today has been around for decades. While the optics have improved and the designs look more futuristic every year – the style of operation is still the same. The SkyMouse is a KickStarter campaign which is set to revolutionise the way we use a computer. …

The good old days of summer holidays and running out shooting friends with Nerf guns. Why does life get less exciting as we get older? Britt Liv Ulrike Michelsen, a chemical and biological engineering student from Germany is taking the familiar concept of a nerf gun to the next level …

A girl has been hit with a staggering £3,800 mobile phone bill, just by using Facebook. The Metro ran a story that said Casey Snook was sending updates to friends as she enjoyed a holiday in the Big Apple. She was visiting landmarks such as The Empire State Building, Times …

The Apple Store is celebrating their 5th birthday and the company are giving away 5 applications and games, free of charge to everyone. Apple have grown in the last 10 years to the world's most successful technology company. In 2007 they launched their first mobile phone and it was an …

The Samsung Galaxy Note III as been the subject of many rumours recently and the latest indicates that a full HD display may be coming. According to the Korean manufacturers site the device has been officially listed, as well as some details of the screen. The information was seen by …

Microsoft are having an interesting year. They have seen Google and Apple stake a claim in the mobile device and internet services market. Yesterday they announced a thorough reorganisation at the software company around devices and services. It is true that the bigger the company, the more convoluted the staffing …

Nokia has just unveiled the Nokia Lumia 1020.  Boasting a second generation 41 megapixel sensor, it reinvents zoom, enabling people to discover more detail than the eye can see. With Nokia’s innovative PureView technology, including optical image stabilization, the device is able to produce some of the sharpest images possible …

Poor Hideo, he's all excited about the release of the Metal Gear Solid Legacy edition (his legacy, if you think about it) and then he goes and watches the trailer for Rockstar's next instalment in the GTA series and it looked so good it got him all depressed. “GTA V” …

Desura might often find itself playing second fiddle to Steam and second fiddle to GoG and second fiddle to Origin and second fiddle to GameStop's Impulse… which I suppose makes it fifth fiddle, but that doesn't mean it's not important or valuable. Why else would the developer of Second Life, …

The Humble ebook Bundle II is still going apace, despite not selling quite as many as the average gaming bundle. However now, if you pay above the average, you'll get a few extra ebooks added to your library, including volume 0 of the XKCD comics. The basic stack of ebooks …

While it's less of a hot topic now than it was a couple of weeks ago, the NSA's PRISM scheme (and to a lesser extent, the UK's Tempora) freaked people out. Cloud providers in the US and UK saw their business fleeing to more privacy protected Europe and articles have …

The new Splinter Cell BlackList is due to be released on the 23rd Of August 2013 in the United Kingdom and Kitguru has partnered up with NVIDIA to give away not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4 but 5 game codes to lucky Kitguru readers! NVIDIA announced it is …

With all that focus on the Xbox One's connectivity and features recently, it's not surprising that Sony is playing a bit of “look-at-me,” right now. However, this newly announced feature should capture gamers' imaginations, since it's one of the ones that Microsoft initially promised but then withdrew – playing your …

Kitguru likes to hand out sexy hardware every month and in July we are working with our good friends over at PCSpecialist to give away a kick ass laptop. PCSpecialist have donated the Optimus V 17x system which features a 4th generation Intel Core i7 4700MQ processor and a Nvidia …

The global PC market shows no sign of stabilising, latest reports from Gartner show that 76 million units were shipped in Q2 this year. This is down 10.9 percent from the 85.3 million systems shipped in Q2 2012. This is the fifth quarter highlighting continued declining shipments. The Gartner data …

The University Of Southampton have recently developed a new storage medium which is said to offer both long term data storage and outstanding data density. The new tech is said to resemble the ‘memory crystals' shown in Superman films, so it has been given the nickname ‘Superman memory crystals'. Right …

The Wall Street Journal have said that Google will be spending a whopping $500 million marketing their flagship smartphone of the Motorola Mobility unit. This figure is greater than the marketing budgets of both Apple and Samsung, the smartphone market leaders. The Moto X phone is due out sometime in …

A year has passed since the government accused Apple of conspiring with major book publishers to raise E-book prices. A Federal judge has said that Apple played a ‘central role' in the price fixing when the iPad launched in 2010. The government was able to show that Apple and the …

Instaburst, a small team of not-for-profit developers, has announced that it's producing a League of Legends inspired fighting game, known as League of Fighters. It's designed to pit characters from the MOBA title against one another in a 2D beat 'em up – and there's a new trailer out to …

Microsoft has today changed over all of its Xbox Live prices, from the traditional Microsoft point system, to dollars and pounds – depending which part of the world you reside in. However, this has resulted in some countries – the UK specifically – being hit with price rises for everything. …

Remember when Microsoft announced all those features earlier this year for the Xbox One? TV viewing, cloud saves, cloud computing, game lending, family sharing – and a little thing called every-24-hour activations? Of course you do, because you screamed in the software giant's face to have it ditch all of …

Sony has updated both its Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the image below and text that reads, “When World's Collide.” Much speculation and guessing has taken place in the hours since its release, but what do you guys think? Some have pointed to a similar looking image in the PS3 …