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We said it from the very start, but according to analysts, it looks as if the new Amazon Kindle Fire is on track to cause a serious dent in the Apple dominated tablet market. Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney spoke to Tabtimes.com and he predicted that Amazon will ship 5 million …

A recent study has confirmed what we already knew – Apple have the most loyal customer base. According to research firm GfK, Apple products generate the most fanatical following. 84 percent of the iPhone user base say that they would buy another iPhone to update their device. Google Android is …

NASA launched the new ROVER ‘Curiosity' successfully, as it heads on the long journey to the Red Planet. The journey will take eight and a half months, traveling  a staggering 354 million miles. The robot craft is part of a huge $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission and Pete Theisinger …

Scammers have decided to target online shoppers who are looking for bargain deals on Monday. People in America often head online after Thanksgiving looking for cheap online products. Last year almost $1 billion was generated on Cyber monday, beating out Black Friday as the highest volume sales day. This year …

According to reports today, the FBI and Philippine law enforcement officers have arrested four people apparently paid by terrorists to hack into AT&T. The company have said their system has not been compromised. The four people were arrested during the week in Manila, and have apparently been paid by the …

At Kitguru we know a portion of our audience won’t want to read 30-40 page reviews on the latest technology. With this in mind we are starting a new series of videos which demystify all the tech talk and lay out the cold hard facts. Kitguru Lite is tech without …

Sapphire Technologies have always had a keen eye on the media enthusiast, and Kitguru has reviewed many of their discrete solutions within the last year. We particularly enjoyed their last generation HD5670 Ultimate Edition, which we also reviewed in a CrossfireX configuration shortly afterwards. In recent months they also released …

Crytek GmbH (Crytek) announced that it closed a licensing deal for CryENGINE 3, its proprietary real-time development solution, with Crystal CG, a world leading digital image service provider. Crystal CG is dedicated to providing customized solutions based on 3D digital visualization technologies and has been working on a number of …

Kingston have said that adoption of Solid State drives will improve in 2012, thanks to NAND flash prices dropping. Nathan Su, flash memory sales director of Kingston APAC spoke to Digitimes, saying that the average pricing for 1GB of NAND flash memory should fall to $1 US shortly. The prices …

Roccat have announced their ‘WTF!' World Tour, a Facebook contest which celebrates worldwide gaming ‘while focusing on the strange, the fascinating and the unexpected'. Fans are asked to submit their own photos, so we can only begin to imagine what will be posted soon! They say: “As part of the …

Apple are offering United Kingdom customers some offers on their hottest selling products. The iPad 2 tablet for instance receives a £31 price reduction, and there is £81 off a new Macbook and iMac. To round out the offers, they are cutting the prices of many other Apple and third …

The European court has ruled yesterday against forcing online providers to monitor customers online activity, to try and filter out illegal sharing of music and software. The ruling, by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg will certainly please many people in Europe, but it will not please music copyright …

NASA's Curiosity space rover, at a value of £1.6 billion is set to launch on Saturday, on a long journey to Mars. It will reach the red planet by August of 2012, if all goes well. The Nuclear powered rover craft will enter the thin atmosphere at 3,200 mph, descending …

At Kitguru we know a portion of our audience won’t want to read 30-40 page reviews on the latest technology. With this in mind we are starting a new series of videos which demystify all the tech talk and lay out the cold hard facts. Kitguru Lite is tech without …

Our sister group TechTV managed to get some hands on time with Ubisoft at the recent Playstation Access 2011 in Bristol. Kitguru gaming reviewed this game a short while ago and it received a slightly mixed review, with author Trevor Evans claiming he feels the franchise needs a little ‘revitalization' …

Today we are looking at a new gaming laptop from Medion called the ‘Erazer X6813'. This laptop costs £979 inc vat and comes loaded with a high end Core i7 2630QM processor, Geforce GTX460M with a mechanical and Solid state drive combination. The Erazer also has USB 3.0 support, a …

No other industry moves as fast as the technology sector. While a few years ago we had to make do with sluggish flash drives, in 2011 there are a myriad of lightning quick USB 3.0 options available. A few weeks ago we tested at a very fast model from ADATA …

Corsair produce some killer memory products, and those of you who have read our coverage of the X79 launch will have seen their Dominator GTX8 modules score almost 50GB/s of bandwidth at 2,400mhz in quad channel. The overclocking feat was achieved on a FX8150 system with Dominator GTX6 memory modules. …

Apple fans will be wetting themselves with excitement as it appears the rumors for many months have been true. The upcoming iteration of the iPad will have a super high resolution screen. Sources are claiming a near ‘retina display quality resolution'. Richard Shim, a DisplaySearch analyst has told CNET that …

Spotify are positioning themselves in a strong position, after a somewhat rocky start, three years ago. Claims have been made that they were struggling to convert users from free ‘advertising funded' services into fully paying subscribers. There have also been some complaints made from artists and record labels over the …

Google continue their cleaning cull and have decided to remove another seven programs from their software portfolio including Knol, Google Gears and Google Wave. This is the third time this year that the search engine giant has streamlined their operation by removing programs which haven't sparked the users imagination. They …

Many manufacturers follow a generic trend when releasing a new computer case, but Cooler Master have caused quite a stir with the recent release of their  Trooper chassis. Kitguru Lite takes a look at the chassis that looks custom made for Darth Vaders next gaming rig. Is the force really …

The Solid State sector has been thriving in 2011, with a plethora of low cost models available to suit the mainstream audience. The high end enthusiast sector is significantly more demanding, with manufacturers working around the clock to get the maximum performance from their latest drives. Today we are looking …

HIS today launched its “MAC-ximization” Facebook competition for Mac enthusiasts to win one of five awesome prize bundles. If you are a Mac enthusiast and multitasking is second nature to you then please read on. Imagine surfing the web, working on a presentation, checking your emails and never missing out …

The TouchPad was a disaster for Hewlett Packard. They spent millions researching and developing the product, then released it, killed the operating system and decided to stop production leaving them with huge inventory. The only people who won in this scenario were the people who bought one for less than …

China have passed the American market to claim the title of largest smartphone market by volume in Q3 2011. Strategy Analytics released the information today which shows huge growth as the phones become cheaper and more available to a wider audience in China. Neil Mawston, an analyst at Strategy Analytics …

The upcoming release of the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is set to cause some concern for Apple, even though they are the clear leader in the tablet sector. The Apple iPad has taken the world by storm, selling many millions of units since it was released and up to …

Samsung are a major player in a very wide and varied number of fields … such as TVs and Smartphones.  But, behind the consumer brand, they produce a wide range of components including memory and, more recently, solid state drives. Today we are going to look at one of Samsung’s …

The battle between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 has been intense since both were released. Opinion is split, but many people feel annoyed that Modern Warfare 3 is basically a ‘console' port. Are the sales figures worth a discussion however? Kitguru Lite investigates. Personally I think Battlefield 3 is …

Today we are looking at the new flagship power supply from XFX – the new Pro 1250W Black Edition. This power supply is aimed at the highest level of enthusiast user who might be using a high end SLI or CrossfireX system. It ships with 80 Plus Gold Certification, is …