Around a year ago, the magic glue holding Samsung and Apple together as technology partners, was called into question time and time again – as both sides were investing million in suits and counter suits. In most normal walks of life, the two would have parted company a long time …
Read More »GTA would never have happened without Max Clifford
The creators of the original Grand Theft Auto title, David Jones and Mike Dailly, have admitted that without the help of high profile publicist, Max Clifford, the game wouldn't have received as much attention as it did and might not have become the success story the series is today. Created …
Read More »Pirate Bay’s power footprint is equivalent to vacuum cleaner
Since moving to the cloud last week and ditching its servers altogether, The Pirate Bay has reduced its power requirements to that of the average vacuum cleaner, according to the sites current unnamed staff – who presumably aren't the founders, who've been tangling with the Swedish court system for the past few …
Read More »GameStation online shop shuts doors 29th October
The website for high street game retail outlet, GameStation, will be closed officially this time next week, continuing the shut down of the entire chain and its conversion to GAME outlets. Anyone that has a Gamestation account or existing preorders, will have them transferred to GAME's website and any outstanding …
Read More »Sony to drop PS3 Folding@home support
Sony and Stanford University have announced that at the end of October, PS3 consoles will lose their support for the protein folding project, Folding@home, ending a five year relationship, as the Life With PlayStation section is removed from the PS3 dashboard. While some have expressed dismay that they will no …
Read More »New Radeon drivers to increase performance ‘significantly’
Working in the AMD graphics team, right now, must be one of the most bizarre experiences in the world. While departments are scrambling everywhere to deal with the company's new focus into non-PC space by 2022, the graphics team are quietly doing exactly what they're required to do. KitGuru checks …
Read More »Sony confirms what phones will and will not receive Android 4.1
Over the weekend Sony has announced which of their smartphones will be updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The list as it stands is as follows: Xperia T Xperia TX Xperia V Xperia S Xperia acro S Xperia ion Xperia P Xperia go Xperia J Strangely, some other models released …
Read More »Apple set to update existing iPad next week
In just a couple of days at a press event on October 23rd Apple is now expected to unveil not only the iPad mini and a 13.3 inch Retina Macbook but also an updated iPad. The current “Retina” class iPad was unveiled in March and the most likely new feature …
Read More »Bioshock Infinite gameplay video released
One of the most awaited games – Bioshock Infinite has received a new gameplay trailer which should excite the masses of people who have been waiting patiently for the game to be released. Irrational Games were meant to release this game in October but the game has been delayed to …
Read More »Windows 8 ‘non event’ for most companies
Many companies are unlikely to adopt Windows 8, according to experts in the field. Reuters report this morning that many companies used to test a new operating system for adoption, but that Windows 8 released on Friday is likely to be a ‘non event' for most businesses. Doug Johnson, head …
Read More »AMD bundle AAA games with graphics cards
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are hoping that a new campaign will help drive sales of their graphics cards in Q4. They are bundling a series of high quality AAA games with their video cards. The ‘Never Settle' bundle campaign targets a wish list of AAA games such as Dirt ShowDown, …
Read More »Docomo launches realtime voice translator
It's the stuff of Star Trek. Japanese telecoms giant Docomo believes its ready to unleash an app that will translator English, Japanese and Korean in real time on phone calls. This is one of the most stunning announcements we've heard, in any language. KitGuru 聞くための準備. Companies like Dragon Speak have …
Read More »Acer Jelly Bean tablet coming later this month for $229
Acer has just announced retail availbility and pricing for their own attempt at a 7 inch tablet running Android Jelly Bean, the A110. The Nexus 7 competitor will be available for $229 from October 30th. What you get for this price is a 7 inch, 1024×600 display, a NVIDIA Tegra …
Read More »Megaupload to be reborn as Mega
Despite Kim Dotcom also pushing next-gen music service, Megabox, he also has plans to bring back Megaupload, under a new banner simply titled: “Mega.” This will be more of an homage to the original service, providing a file locker that is designed to circumvent the legal issues of its predecessor. …
Read More »Hot weekend offers at ARIA!
Had a rough week? Feeling a bit down. Why not treat yourself to some cheap tech goodies courtesy of ARIA? They are currently selling 8GB of the Jet Black Corsair Vengeance low profile DDR3 memory for only £23.99 inc vat. This 1600mhz memory ships with 9-9-9-24 timings and would be …
Read More »Tablets and smartphones continue to hit laptop sales
The growing demand for tablets and smartphones is still hitting global laptop sales hard this year. Intel's financial report for Q3 this year indicates that the notebook sector sales are still not picking up. According to sources close to Digitimes the demand for notebooks will not pick up until 2013. …
Read More »Samsung & Google release ARM based Chromebook
Google are attempting to answer some of the pricing criticisms of their Chromebook range of computers with partner Samsung. The two companies are planning to release an ultrabook style Chromebook laptop which will only cost around £160 in the United Kingdom. This is a huge drop in price from the …
Read More »AMD loses over 1,000 jobs during evolution
During last night's Q3 financial call, AMD executives delivered the news that KitGuru has expected for almost a year – a significant reduction in workforce going forward. It simply doesn't need the same workforce going forward as it did in the past. KitGuru pulls out the abacus to calculate the …
Read More »Google announces a new $249 Samsung Chromebook
Google has today announced the latest addition to the Chrome OS family, a Samsung Chromebook that is set to cost just $249, down from $449 for last year's model. The other big change is the move from a x86 based Intel Atom processor to the ARM Cortex A15 Samsung Exynos …
Read More »Nintendo is investigating Foxconn child labour claims
Nintendo has announced in the wake of the Foxconn child labour reports – and the company's admission – that it was investigating what happened and how much truth there really is behind the story. As a quick catch up, Foxconn admitted yesterday to taking part in the illegal hiring of …
Read More »Twitter censors neo-Nazi account in Germany
Twitter has blocked German users of the site from viewing the page and tweets of a certain neo-Nazi group, after a request was sent by German police officials to have the page deleted. However it still remains online and viewable elsewhere in the world. The group in question is known …
Read More »Leading Lawyer comments on Apple losing Samsung appeal
Kim Walker, Partner at leading law firm Thomas Eggar, comments on Apple losing its UK court appeal relating to Samsung copying its iPad: “Apple has lost its appeal against the UK ruling that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad. This is an endorsement of Samsung’s tablet design, …
Read More »ROCCAT Unveils ‘Hiro’ 3D Supremacy Surface Gaming Pad
ROCCAT, the German manufacturer of professional gaming accessories, today launched its new high-performance cloth gaming pad – the ROCCAT™ Hiro – 3D Supremacy Surface Gaming Mousepad – the world’s first mousepad to use an advanced new manufacturing process that creates smooth, rounded edges that won’t ever fray, even after extended use. …
Read More »UK mobile providers team up to speed 4G release
Considering the back and forth arguing of the different mobile providers in the UK about how the 4G auction should be completed, you'd be forgiven for not believing that they've now banded together to speed up the release of the 4G spectrum: but that's exactly what's happened. Vodafone, Everything Everywhere …
Read More »Valve creates Greenlight concept section
Perhaps to counter the fact that many of the first 10 games that the Steam community gave the ‘Greenlight' to were unfinished, Valve has implemented a split in the way games are shown on the crowd voting platform. Now titles that are finished will have their own sections, while unfinished …
Read More »Microsoft riding on Surface, literally
With just over a week before the next generation of Windows is officially launched the marketing campaign is starting to get under way. No one can doubt the importance of the next few months for Microsoft with launches of Windows 8, RT and Phone 8 in place, so I guess you …
Read More »Samsung follows OCZ lead on large-sized SSD pricing
It's like a tiny glimpse into the future. OCZ has been pushing out some very aggressive deals into the market on large scale SSD – and now the big boys are following. The latest game of price-based kiss-chase is happening around the 240/256GB drives. Both Samsung and OCZ have something …
Read More »Moon may have been part of the Earth – scientists claim
The most accepted modern theory of the existence of the moon states that a giant body struck the Earth and this subsequently created the Moon. A new paper published yesterday however by Sarah Stewart and Matija Cuk argues against this theory. The scientists claim that their theory better explains why …
Read More »Win Razer Star Wars: Old Republic laptop – valued at $15,000
It may look a little like a high end Apple laptop, but its not. Razer are giving away their stunning one of a kind Star Wars: The Old Republic gaming laptop which is valued at around $15,000. This sweepstake contest has already been hit hard by the public who are …
Read More »Microsoft Surface tablet – will it be an iPad beater?
Microsoft have enjoyed huge success over the years with their software, including Windows operating systems and Office. Earlier this month however we reported that they wanted to be ‘revinvented as a Devices & Services‘ company. This is a challenging move for the Microsoft Corporation as they have yet to experience …
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