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Tis the season to be running amazing competitions with stunning prizes, it seems!  If we had a dollar for every prize being offered in December, we'd have a lot of dollars. Still, NEVER SETTLE, that's our motto – and it seems to be the motto down at Aria as well. …

We reported a few days ago that Microsoft were aiming to get their Surface RT tablet stocked in retail stores, in the efforts to generate more sales. According to The Register the deal is close to being signed, but the fine details are holding it back. Microsoft are pushing the …

Dell has never been overly active or popular in the smartphone arena. Their only modern day attempts have been the Android powered Streak series and the Venue Pro Windows Phone 7.x device. None of these devices ever gained traction in the highly competitive smartphone market. At the recent Dell World …

A bizarre story hit the net yesterday, when the police used a taser on a woman after she tried to buy too many iPhones at a local mall. The woman's daughter Jiao Jay said her mother bought two iPhones last Friday and was told that she wasn't allowed to buy …

According to the latest rumours, it would appear that Apple are planning to upgrade the iPad Mini to include a higher resolution display. Digitimes has quoted sources in the backlighting industry who claim that the next generation mini tablet will join the modern age of Apple products. The details are …

When Thermaltake launched the Elements series a few years back, reaction was mixed. Knowing that the world economy was in a bad place, the company tried to be creative at the low end of the market, with mixed results. Ironically, with so little money in the market, it was the …

Along with four other publishing giants, Apple has agreed to settle an antitrust case with EU regulators over Ebook price fixings. This should lead to a reduction in price restrictions on Ebook sales sites like Amazon. The big five involved were Apple, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Livre, Macmillan and Harper …

My good friend Terry Makedon is running a PC game of the year poll on his excellent website which deals with music, movies and culture in Canada. Terry says “What is the best PC game of 2012? Simple – it is the one that gamers vote as their favorite. I …

We had a nice surprise package today straight from the AMD factory – a tray of 8 core wonderbeast chips! Yes, we going to be giving away some 8 core high end FX8350 processors to make four people very happy over the Christmas and New Year holidays. AMD make some …

HDTVs have been around long enough to become a staple in the living room of a contemporary family, so with people far less interested in 3D technology than manufacturers no doubt hoped, 4K resolution sets are beginning to appear. You'll still be paying through the nose for them, but as …

A few days ago Victorian Police warned people against using Apple Maps as it was, and is, “potentially life threatening” as instead of guiding users to a town in the Australian outback, users were directed to the middle of a National Park. Some unfortunate motorists have found themselves stranded without …

ExploitHub, a site that offers code that takes advantage of software vulnerabilities for a small fee, has found itself hacked, with a large database of its marketable software made available for free in a site dump. Initially, the site's admins claimed that merely a message board discussion database had been …

People complain that SSD drives aren't big enough to be used for any serious level of storage. This deal today might just tickle the spot, because you can now pick up a 480GB SSD from ARIA for only £219.95. There will obviously be faster drives than this one as it …

After the controversy surrounding the recent unveiling of the lacklustre and pretty generic box art for Bioshock Infinite, Irrational Games has announced that when the game is released, it will come with a reversible cover so gamers have a choice. And it won't be Irrational choosing it. Co-founder Ken Levine, …

After introducing the enticingly cheap Acer C7 Chromebook in November, Acer are back again with a higher specced C7 Chromebook; this time priced at $299. For an extra $100 the RAM is doubled to 2 GB, the hard drive size increases from 320 GB to 500 GB and claimed battery …

Apple users can rejoice, because Google have released a version of Google Maps for Apple iOS devices. The application will please users who have been displeased with Apple's own mapping software in the latest iOS. You know something is bad when Apple CEO Tim Cook apologises to the punters and …

E-ink readers have been popular for a long time and while their design is based completely around reading books and literature it appears that the honeymoon period is coming to an end. The devices are really useful, I own a Kindle myself and couldn't see myself reading a book on …

The FBI have arrested 10 people who are associated with a crime ring. They made the announcement and said that malware had infected 11 million computer systems and caused more than $850 million in losses. “The Department of Justice and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, announced the …

In one of the world's longest detours, technology sales guru Roy Taylor will be reunited with some of his oldest friends when he takes over the worldwide channel sales role for AMD in 2013. KitGuru adds some historical context and ponders what John Byrne's decision to bring Roy inside AMD …

Research In Motion are betting the farm on their upcoming Blackberry 10 next year, their next generation smartphone platform which they hope will bring them back into the hearts and minds of the mainstream smartphone audience. RIM have had a pretty dire 18 months, and the company is now under …

I think we have all searched on Google with ‘safesearch' off at some point. Even innocent search terms can return a high level of porn images, not ideal for the family. Google are adjusting their algorithm to ensure this won't happen. They have pushed out an update which will ensure …

You're drawn from your early morning slumber by the repetitive beep of your alarm clock. After doing the ‘toilet and kitchen' thing, you find yourself at once relieved and energised. Where does your thought go next? For hundreds of millions of people across the planet, the next thing that happens …

Today we have something special up for review, the latest VTX3D HD7870 Black which is based on a 'new revision' of the popular HD7870 graphics card. Selected partners will be releasing new versions of the HD7870 (Tahiti 'LE') with more horsepower under the hood. Just how good is the new design based on the Tahiti core previously associated with the HD7950 and HD7970?

Microsoft is actively hunting for a new software development engineer, to join a team working on future Xbox Kinect experiences and one of the biggest requirements for the position, is a readiness to fail, fast. Forming as part of Microsoft's entertainment division, the accepted applicant will be joining a team of “veterans” …

While this isn't necessarily a vulnerability that could cause problems for the average user, those that make use of virtual keyboards – perhaps those with physical disabilities – are at risk thanks to a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer browser, making it possible for a nefarious few to track mouse …

With Windows Phone 7.8 currently rumoured for an early 2013 release following the launch of Windows Phone 8, we are gradually starting to get a better idea of what features Microsoft will include in the watered-down version of its flagship mobile platform. We have known for quite a while now …

The Vatican announced last week that the pope was planning to answer the questions of twitter users, as well as speaking words of wisdom on the social network on the 12th and today is that day. A couple of hours ago, he released his first few tentative messages, with more …

Oppo is an emerging phone manufacturer right out of China and today they have officially announced the Find 5; a device that is set to define what a flagship smartphone should be in 2013. The sleek design is not just a decent exterior hiding poor internal hardware. The Find 5 has a …

Despite the furore that appeared shortly after the Humble Bundle announced its partnership with financially wobbly publisher THQ, it looks like it's going to be the most profitable bundle ever, with just under 12 hours to go to raise the last $300,000. The current record holder for most profitable Humble …

We're seeing a lot of companies poking 2 fingers up at the poor Mayans these days – and the latest double digit salute comes from British technology specialist Aria. Taking ‘ignoring the warnings of natives' to the extreme, we're being told that the 12-12-12 campaign starts at 12pm on the …