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Products like Coca Cola are so ubiquitous that most of us are surprised to enter a shop that sells any kind of food or drink and find out that they have no Coke. In fact, many restaurants will apologise before saying, “But we have Pepsi”. At the same time, how …

While Google is certainly a monster in many ways, there is at least one ‘Sully in the closet' for the search engine super champ – and that's the idea of Facebook launching its own search engine. While that prospect might make Google worried enough to look under the bed at …

Sony’s name is synonymous with leading edge technology and quality consumer electronics, but as the market declines do Sony have what it takes to stay at the top? Originally founded way back in 1946 Sony quickly became a household name for consumer electronics. Just a quick look at their portfolio …

If you are in the hunt for NVIDIA's latest and greatest Gefore GTX 680, chances are you either managed to grab one out of pure luck or have given up completely. As of writing, Newegg does not have a single GTX 680 in stock. Even one of the largest PC stores down …

John Riccitiello, Electronic Arts CEO has caused the shares of Zynga Inc to drop to their lowest level earlier this week after he suggested that Zynga paid too much for a recent takeover deal. This caused analysts to ponder the decision. Riccitiello was holding a fourth quarter earnings call on …

Amazon may be planning to release new colour e-reader devices later this year according to an industry insider we spoke with yesterday. Makers in the supply chain are already preparing to ship components for the production. The new colour e-reader devices are going to be built with multi touch capacitive …

Many gamers are heartbroken to hear that BioShock Infinite is going to be postponed until February 2013. The game was originally planned for release in October 2012. The delay was mentioned on the official game site by designer Ken Levine, who said “Bioshock Infinite is a very big game, and …

One of the smartest things anyone can do is work less for more money. Conversely, one of the dumbest things we can do is work harder/faster for less and less. Unfortunately, this is the situation that the major producers are finding themselves in. KitGuru heads down to the local takeaway …

Elpida Memory announced today that they are in talks with Micron Technology regarding a possible takeover. Elpida filed for bankruptcy protection in February with 448 billion yen in liabilities. Elpida have said in a statement that Micron Technology have won the right for negotiations to buy the company. The news …

Samsung has just announced the first OLED television set that is ready for mass production. While OLED displays are best known for being at home in Samsung's smartphones, they are now stepping up to the big time, 55 inches across with a Full HD resolution. At the Samsung Premium TV …

As part as ongoing (and largely baseless) lawsuits between the mobile giants, Samsung and Apple, they were pressured into agreeing to settlement talks last month and today some results of that have arisen. Both parties have agreed to drop some of their current claims in the Californian courts. Apple has …

We would never condone illegal activities in any shape or form, but The Pirate Bay has become almost an institution. We look into the latest backlash from their followers. In a revenge attack hacktivists have taken down the Virgin Media website. Virgin Media was one of the first UK ISP's …

Overnight Sony has announced their first LTE enabled smartphones for the Japanese market; the Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX. While the GX, or at least a variant of it, will be coming to an international audience at some stage this year. The same cannot be confirmed for the SX, …

Visit any major city on the planet, roll through its development over the past 100 years and you’ll notice something about the height of the skyline. When you need to pack more people into a fixed area, X and Y are not enough. You MUST build upwards. KitGuru casts an …

Regular readers will be aware that Proview Electronics have been gunning for Apple, entering into legal wrangles in China over the iPad trademark. Proview won't be happy as a California judge, Mark Pierce dismissed the lawsuit against Apple which was first filed in February. Proview had claimed that Apple deceived …

Hewlett Packard have just announced a new series of ‘Envy' Ultrabook computers with aggressive pricing. The new Envy Sleekbooks will be offered at $150 less than the current range of Ultrabooks. The new machines will feature both Intel and AMD processors and will ship with 14 and 15.6 inch screens. …

Microsoft rolled out a fix last night for both 2008 and 2011 versions of Office for Macintosh. One of these fixes is critical, as it fixes a loophole which would allow an attacker to ‘overwrite a computer's memory with malicious code.' Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.2 and Office 2008 12.3.3 include …

Well known hacking group Anonymous claimed to have accessed and published the details of around 55,000 Twitter accounts. The company are denying their claims saying that Anonymous posted ‘duplicate' information and password information for suspended spam based accounts. Anonymous posted a file on Pastebin which listed Twitter usernames and passwords. …

For those tech readers who don’t always get time to check out our game related content at Kitguru gaming – here is a round up of content published in the last week. “A Magnet School for Video Game Design” While it may be a no-brainer to gamers that the video …

While we don't often focus on the phone market on the other side of the Atlantic this definitely caught our eye this morning. Today at CTIA, HTC and Verizon annoucned the latest phone in its Droid Incredible series, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE. Being manufactured by HTC in partnership with Verizon the latest Incredible …

While this has been expected for some time now due to the ever increasing affordability and value of smartphones, numbers released by Nielsen reveal that over half of mobile phone owners in the US now own a smartphone. The figure officially stands at 50.4%, which is up from 47.8% in …

We spoke to a source this weekend in Taipei who told us that Apple are preparing a $799 Macbook Air for release in either August or September this year. This will be bad news for Intel who are intensely targeting their UltraBook platform to the enthusiast audience. The price so …

As we have known now for some time, Apple are planning to release a new high definition television. Well known Apple based Cult Of Mac have mocked up what they expect Apple to release. In their report, Cult Of Mac say that they have been in contact with an unnamed …

Google are the first company to receive a license application to test their self driving car on public roads, according to the Nevada DMV. The license plate is red, which signifies that the vehicle is ‘autonomous'. There is also an infinity logo on the far left of the plate. Bruce …

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today introduced release candidate firmware v1.4RC, which dramatically improves the performance of its Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 Series SSDs. Most notably, v1.4RC nearly doubles sequential write performance for lower capacity models, significantly boosts …

Back in the day, everything was all about DOS or CPM on Z-80. That was replaced by an era of Windows on Intel, but on 28th May the new world order prepares to feel smug and enjoy the new noodles in Hong Kong. KitGuru prepares to check into the Gold …

Samsung has been flying high in recent times by taking the crown for the largest phone vendor worldwide. The Korean giant doesn't want to stop there though, according to mobile division president JK Shin, Samsung expects to sell over 200 million smartphones in 2012. Sadly, Samsung does not publicly release …

There are several things that affect the overall performance of a processor-based device. You can look for bottlenecks in the data transfer and try to improve them or get the internals of the chip itself to do more work per clock cycle. While balance is important, almost nothing can beat …

Today we are giving away a stunning 8GB memory kit courtesy of G.Skill! You can win 8GB of their latest TridentX 2,400 memory. We reviewed this memory last week and it won our highest award, thanks to a mixture of incredible performance and stability when overclocked. You can read our …

Using the old ‘give yourself enough rope and you can inflict a great self-hanging' wisdom, the UK government decided that 100% of households will have high speed broadband by 2015. Now, according to the LSE (London School of Economics), there will be a shortfall of around $1Bn. KitGuru calculates that …