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Opera browser for Android is now out in a beta version, providing mobile web navigation that is sleeker and easier to use than ever. The completely redesigned Opera for Android is the result of a passion for design combined with 17 years' worth of know-how and innovation. The web browser …

We have reported before on the Apple iWatch and even though it has yet to be confirmed by Apple, the rumours keep persisting. A new Bloomberg report would suggest that the Apple ‘iWatch' is expected to release this year. Apple are also said to be working with flexible, curved glass. …

Infamous bittorent tracking site The Pirate Bay have announced that they are relocating to North Korea, a country well known for limiting their internet service to citizens. The Pirate Bay wrote in a blog post “The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal …

Running out of juice is a pain. Whenever it happens, you just wish that you had half an hour spare to stick your phone or other cool electronic device into a hotel wall socket and get a few bars back. But what if you're no where near a hotel?  Arctic …

Hackers hit some of the major news websites in the Czech Republic this morning, bringing many of them to their knees and making most hard, if not impossible to access. These include the country's biggest news sites: ihned.cz, dnes.cz and novinky.cz. The attacks were nothing out of the ordinary, just …

The whole “getting into hardware,” gimmick seems to have become just that for many companies. I appreciate that the likes of Ouya and Nvidia are shaking up the traditional big three dynamic of consoles, but do we really need another? According to a cryptic image posted by Infinity Ward, it …

Clothing and accessories firm, The Hut, is now offering PS4 pre-orders on its website, for such games as inFamous Second Son, Diablo III, Destiny, Killzone Shadow Fall and Knack – all for the princly price of £69.99. Fortunately a statement has been released by the company, suggesting that these are …

Are you waiting to get hold of Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

German parliament has now given the voted approval for a licensing fee should the search engine wish to reproduce more than just a few short excerpts of a news story. Fortunately to come into play it still needs to be ratified by the upper house of German parliament, but that's …

Kim Dotcom's file locker sequel to Megaupload, Mega, is now looking for a chief financial officer ahead of an intended public offering of the company. The hiree will be in charge of readying the firm for its flotation. Announced by Dotcom just a few hours ago via his twitter feed, …

The days of building a slightly better mouse trap and waiting for the customers to bang down your door are gone. These days, marketing is everything. Ahead of CeBIT 2013 and the showcasing of its latest APU products, KitGuru catches up with the chap who's taken over generating demand for …

Google have publicly commented on the Motorola pipeline, after buying the company last year. This will come as a blow to many people who had hoped that the Google/Motorola deal would lead to an array of exciting smartphones in the near future. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, Google …

Evernote, the popular online personal organiser have had to issue a password reset for all their users after hackers penetrated the company's protection systems and accessed login credentials. The company sent out an email to customers. The Evernote team found out about the attack and subsequently blocked ‘suspicious activity on …

Asus have announced that there is an over the air update for their Transformer Pad 300 in America. The update will reach other countries later this month. The update fixes bugs and delivers performance gains and some new features. The tablet version of Android 4.2 includes multiple user account logins. …

Having VP-ed at the highest levels in the tech industry, Patrick Moorhead has now started his own consultancy and he came over to Monte Carlo to share his latest insights with an eager crowd of EMEA's top buying and selling talent. KitGuru operatives managed to sneak out some telling shots. …

Learning to ‘follow the money' is one of life's most important lessons. It helps answer so many questions – in every walk of life. Sure sex and drugs and rock-n-roll plus the need for weapons and violence figure into the equation, but the money trail is crucial. For graphics, that …

This weekend we have something special for our readers – the chance to win one of the meanest, most powerful graphics card and power supply combinations you could ever want! Nvidia's GTX Titan has been getting enthusiast users all hot around the collar and we wanted to give one away …

Are you waiting to get hold of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

The Ouya is set to begin shipping to Kickstarter backers at the end of March (28th to be precise) meaning that gamers will get their first in-the-wild glimpse of the little Android console that could shake up an industry that has been dominated by the big three for the past …

A new update to the Shield Act in American patent law could see those that buy up patents in an effort to extort cash payouts from companies become liable for the entire legal costs of both sides – but only if they lose the court case. The reason behind this …

HMV has until the end of this month to get some funds together or go under completely. Fortunately it looks like Hilco, the company that bought up HMV's debt back in January, is not putting up the cash to take the beleaguered firm off the chopping block. £50 million is …

Maker and runner of League of Legends, Riot Games, has announced that it has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia and is already looking for new blood to staff it. Do you have what it takes? The two new positions available – who will presumably be joining others, it …

Today we are going to look at the Aerocool Strike-X Air which is a very innovative chassis, designed to appeal to those enthusiasts who spend a lot of time inside their PC and change hardware frequently.  It uses an open design, similar to a test bench, which features a large mesh cover …

Throughout the extradition war between Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and the US authorities attempting to send him to their homeland for a full criminal trial, one of the battlegrounds has been whether Dotcom's legal team should be given access to all the evidence against their client, or simply be given …

Another very popular competition, we received many thousands of entries for this one over the last month. Having to pick two was difficult! The answer was very easy, it was ‘C'. Prize Number 1: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe Motherboard The winner of this prize is Liam O'Donnell. Check your email Liam …

This was a very popular competition, with many thousands of entries over the last month – sorry to all those people who didn't win, but we are going to be putting a smile on a lot of faces today as we announce the many winners in this competition ! FIRST …

We know you guys never get enough hardware, so we are working with Aerocool over the coming weeks to give away some very tasty prizes to five very lucky people. Is there anything better than free tech goodies? 1st Prize AeroCool GT-1050SG Power Supply which we reviewed back in January …

I remember my ATARI ST with fondness. There was something about having the complete computer inside the keyboard which appealed to me, and still does. If you are like me, the computer in this story will bring back very warm memories. A Chinese company called FocusWill Information Technology have created …

Code.Org created a video to encourage kids to learn computer programming. The video has proved very popular and has been attracting the attention of a very wide audience, there are over 5 million views already on the YouTube video. The non-profit organisation created a video which includes people such as …

Facebook said yesterday that they have agreed to buy the ATLAS digital advertising service from Microsoft. Facebook are driving forward to tackle rivals Google in online advertising. Neither company has detailed the terms of the deal. Facebook want to strengthen their money making platform, targeting their one billion users with …