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While we might often seem to be writing sad stories here, about how the high street is dwindling, with hardware and gaming stores closing down all over the place, it is leading to better online sales. In 2011, the UK digital games market made over £500 million. This has come …

As part of a call for a global crackdown on tax avoidance, it has been revealed that Google is one of the biggest culprits. In 2011, the search giant pushed 80 per cent of its revenue, some £6 billion, through the island of Bermuda, thereby avoiding over £1 billion in …

Ian Livingstone, a man who's career reads like my childhood, is set to receive a CBE. He was named on the New Year's honours list, on the same day that his 63rd birthday rolled around. If the name Livingstone rings a bell but you can't put your finger on it, …

We first heard about the Sony Yuga back in early November and even then it was apparent that phones like it would set the trend for 2013. A press shot of the device has leaked online revealing its launch name will be the Xperia Z. The smartphone on the left …

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USB drives are available now for only a few pounds in the United Kingdom, with prices dropping all the time. Even if you lose one of them on the move it isn't a big expense to replace it. A company has taken this concept to a new level by creating …

CES is quickly turning into a showcase event for new television sets and Samsung have released a ‘teaser' image for an upcoming set which is sure to cause much debate among the enthusiast audience. The image above was released by the company to show the portrait mode, useful for internet …

Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan have stopped production of the Playstation 2 console. Games however will continue to be produced for the aging but ever popular console. The Playstation 2 is a success story and is rated as the second best selling console of all time, with more than 150 …

LG have said that they are taking pre-orders in Korea for their 55 inch WRGB OLED television set. Pre-orders have not yet been announced in other countries, but they are expected to roll out between now and April. Korean customers are expected to get their hands on the new set …

Following on from its announcement earlier in the year that it planned to end the lives of 13 of its games, Zynga has begun that process, closing down 11 of them, including: Petville, Mafia Wars 2, Vampire Wars, ForestVille and Fishville among others. Don't worry though, Zynga has recommendations for …

Many people missed the iPad 4 launch. While it was clear to KitGuru, back at the start of September, that Apple was going to run foul of UK Trading Standards law with accessories – we knew that the solution was a new iPad. However, with all the Mini iPad hype, …

Hot off the back of its Instagram gaff, Facebook has suffered another blow to its reputation, as its Midnight Message Delivery app, that was designed to allow people to leave messages for loved ones that would be sent automatically as the New Year rolled around, had a gaping hole in …

Throughout 2012 we had a lot of attacks on piracy. There was the blocking of sites like The Pirate Bay, the confiscation of a nine year old girl's laptop, porn stars going after torrent users and loads more. However despite the number of anti-piracy stories, we've also had BitTorrent Inc. …

I was surprised in late November to see the HTC HD2 running Windows Phone 8. Afterall, the Windows Mobile 6.5 device was released only a few months before the launch of Windows Phone 7 in March 2010. The HD2 has a massive developer community behind it and has also had …

As Big Ben struck midnight and 2013 began, a huge wave of personal messages swept through the UK's mobile networks. And yet, the networks survived. That's some serious infrastructure. KitGuru pulls out the TallyMan Pro and does some counting. We've all had issues with mobile networks. The most common happens …

While the digital distribution model has taken a while to get going, it's certainly picked up steam now, as more and more of us find ourselves listening to music through services like Spotify, watching movies through Netflix; we're renting access to content. However, while there's been a big push with …

Many users complained of an outage on Christmas Eve, which stopped them watching their TV shows and movies via Netflix. Amazon have blamed ‘human error' for the server downtime. Amazon have said that a developer mistakenly deleted part of the ‘ELB state data' which handles the load balancing, streaming content …

The Nintendo 3DS has been under attack by hackers for the last couple of years but Nintendo has been steadfast in its defence of the handheld's security. A couple of weeks ago though, we saw the beginnings to what could be a hack that opens the system up and now …

As if letting people know you're out of the house and ripe for a burglary wasn't enough, Foursquare has pledged to serve up more information on its users, including full names, thanks to a change in privacy policy. As of 28th January, Foursquare will begin showing a user's entire name, …

While it still remains a rumour mere days before the annual electronics show begins, Intel could be set to debut a new type of set top box at CES, that would allow for what is being described as, “virtual cable TV.” The idea behind it is that it would offer streaming …

Since September 2012, Pakistan has had a block in place, preventing its citizens from accessing Youtube. However on 29th December, the country's higher ups lifted it temporarily in an effort to set up an in-house filter that would simply prevent people from seeing content it deemed inappropriate or blasphemous. Unfortunately, …

Hackulous, a name that should resonate with owners of jail broken iPhones for its links with cracked apps, has officially closed its doors, presumably for good, with little official word as to why. As of yesterday, Hackulous went down meaning community news and updates would never be heard from again …

Today we are going to look at one of Corsair's latest liquid CPU coolers, the H55.  This is an improved version of the existing H50 cooler which is popular with those looking for a high performance cooler at a very reasonable price point.  We look forward to seeing how it …

Back in January 1971, Richard Branson opened his first Virgin Records store at 24 Oxford Street, the ‘cheap end' as Dickie put it. Until March 1992, when he sold out to Thorn EMI for $1 Billion, his business was a huge success. Virgin's attempts to sell phones on the high …

Hands up if you think you are Eddie Van Halen because you could beat Guitar Hero on expert level? Well the next stage in the evolution to true Guitar genius has opened up thanks to the Peavey AT-200 electric guitar which features the Antares Auto Tune pitch correction technology. This …

Doctor Who, the cult UK science fiction show has attracted many geeks over the years right across the globe. It appears it has as many followers in America as anywhere else in the world. If you have followed the show at all over the years, you will know that his …

Apple were hit in China with a £102,000 fine after a ruling which said they were responsible for applications which appeared on its App Store containing unlicensed content. The Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court said that Apple had violated China's Copyright Law and have ordered it to pay up …

Data from Net Applications shows that Windows 8 is less popular than Windows Vista, the operating system that proved unpopular with the enthusiast audience. Windows 8 usage uptake has slipped behind Vista's in the same point in its release. Windows 8 online usage share is around 1.6% of all Windows …

As a youngster, you loved Black Sabbath, AC/DC and The Avengers. But , somehow, the whole world was 30 years behind you. Now, as we enter 2013, the overall market demand for classic rock bands and Marvell Comics seems to know no limits. According to IBM, you've been right about …

There have been rumors now for months that Apple may be releasing an iOS based watch, called the ‘iWatch'. The news is failing to subside and TGBus, a Chinese Tech website are still claiming that Apple are planning to release a 1 – 1.5 inch OLED screen watch, The reports …