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Hilco saves HMV

HMV

For those of you that were feeling sad and nostalgic for the long time high street retailer HMV, fret not, as Hilco, the company that bought up HMV Canada a couple years ago, has now stepped in and put the brakes on HMV's demise and has promised to restructure and …

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How fast will Sky Go eat your data plan?

For anyone with an iPad and Sky, last night was really fun. Sky's programming team forced through an update, which didn't work, and services across the land were severely disrupted. One reader send us an interesting screen grab and we'd like to share the contents with you. Sky Go runs …

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Steve Jobs threatened Palm if they employed Apple staff

Steve Jobs had apparently threatened Palm with a patent suit if they didn't agree to not hire Apple employees. The report came from Reuters which was made public yesterday. The court filing is part of a class action lawsuit against Apple, Google, Pixar, Lucasfilm and others over an agreement those …

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Apple pull photo sharing apps: too many nude pictures

500px are a Toronto photo sharing startup and they reported that both of their applications 500px for iOS and ISO500 have been pulled from the Apple Application store due to concerns over nude photos. Both of the applications are popular, and have acquired over 1 million downloads, according to a …

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New Laser Pegs light-up construction toys launch

Laser Pegs, the originators of light-up construction, is the world’s only patented range of illuminated construction toys.  Laser Pegs is the first unique toy construction set in the world in which each piece feeds the next piece low voltage current.  A must-have for any construction fan, the new Laser Pegs …

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Ouya could have Firefox support

Mozilla

While you might be looking forward to the Ouya Android console for many reasons, there could now be one more. Mozilla is currently working on making a Ouya compatible version of its Firefox browser, as well as making it easily navigable with a controller. The announcement was made on the …

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Blockbuster closing 160 stores

Blockbuster

The administration firm for Blockbuster, Deloitte – which is becoming more of a household name at this point than the companies it's administering – has announced that 160 Blockbuster stores will close. “Having reviewed the portfolio with management, the store closure plan is an inevitable consequence of having to restructure …

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Adata and Kingston disect 32GB memory price jump

Most of the time, technology manufacturers keep the underlying cost of a product ‘masked' from us, the consumers. When a component suffers a temporary increase in cost, that amount is swallowed and the price on the shelf remains the same.When the price drops, the manufacturers also hang onto the difference …

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Samsung launch Galaxy Grand phablet

Samsung India have launched their Galaxy Grand which features dual sim functionality. This phablet has been released just a day after Micromax announced their Canvas HD with 5 inch screen. The Times Of India reported on the new product which has been announced at RS 25,000. The Galaxy Note and …

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Five of Steve Job’s biggest mistakes

The Harvard Business Review posted an article detailing mistakes that Steve Jobs made. The point they are trying to make? Even the most successful leaders have a string of failures during their career. They say “any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect …

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Asus ends 2012 on top of UK component market

At KitGuru, we're always playing the ‘old geezer' card, using our grey hair and pot-bellies to bring back factoids from yesteryear. That means we can remember a time when current Asus board-level executives were driving up and down the UK countryside – working hard to generate any mainboard orders they …

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Napster documentary Downloaded to premier at SXSW

A documentary directed by Alex Winters, the most excellent companion to Keanu Reeve's Ted, from Bill and Ted, called Downloaded, is set to debut at the South by South West festival, chronicling the rise and fall of the internet's first dominant, Peer to Peer file transfer service, Napster, and its …

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HMV accepting gift vouchers once again

If you tore up your HMV gift vouchers in disgust since the announcement that it would no longer be accepting them due to its administration, you're about to get more annoyed, as they've just been reinstated by administrator Deloitte. When it was initially announced that vouchers could no longer be …

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Mega launch plagued by heavy load

File Upload

When launching a website, every developer wants to see the popularity of their new property explode. They want the media talking about it and people watching their press conference, reading their tweets and above all, using the site itself. While that has happened in the case of Kim Dotcom's new …

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Windows Phone 7.8 roll-out to commence January 31

In mid-November last year we heard that Microsoft will commence the Windows Phone 7.8 roll-out for first and second generation handsets by the end of the year. For reasons unknown this schedule was pushed back and the latest date appears to be January 31st. Windows Phone Colombia has informed users …

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Armored Toyota Sequoia built by Lexani Motorcars

We like cars and fancy transport at Kitguru. A new fully kitted out Toyota Sequoia has been created by Lexani Motorcars which features an incredible list of internal changes. This is a car that the President would be proud to drive around in. This armored vehicle features state of the …

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Apple want writer to improve Siri dialogue

Apple have posted a job on LinkedIn which shows that the company are wanting to enhance the SIRI software, which has its roots in a Pentagon-funded artificial intelligence research project. Apple want SIRI to be ‘smarter'. The ad read “[S]omeone who combines a love for language, wordplay, and conversation with …

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Dotcom opens ‘Mega’ sharing site

Kim Dotcom – the owner of Megaupload.com which was closed a year ago has started a new website. The new file storage and sharing site has already received a lot of attention and Dotcom says that innovation won't be stopped. The new Mega website started accepting registrations from the public …

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Batmobile for sale at £3m – Holy Auto Trading

In recent times, the Batmobile has been overhauled again and again – until it has turned into a self-aware, 21st century death-dealer, capable of balancing the odds in any armed conflict. But that's not where it started. Now the actual, original Batmobile has been sold for almost £3 million. KitGuru …

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German laser weapon cuts steel at 1km

When H.G. Wells published The War of the Worlds in 1898, he helped the world envision a future where enemies would cut Earth's forces apart with powerful heat-rays. Now Germany’s Rheinmetall Defense has successfully tested something very real and very effective. KitGuru balances its wonder of all things science fiction …

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