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In the West, we live in an interconnected world, where nearly everyone understands computers and has access to them. So if you are a developing nation, how can you bring technology to the lives of millions – when you simply do not have the investment or infrastructure in place to …

Popular file sharing service DropBox have changed their terms of agreement and from what we can gather from sources, including the excellent tech UK news site thinq – customers aren't too chuffed about the new updates. I admit that while I use drop box myself when the email arrived in …

How many readers have walked into a retail store in the UK and been stunned at the price of some of the branded HDMI cables? I remember recently when our dog chewed through our TV cable and I was forced to run into a local Curry's store, only to be …

Sony have been in the spotlight for some time now, for all the wrong reasons. But the latest news is positive for the Japanese Playstation fans who have been unable to access the network service in the last two and a half months. As many regular readers will already be …

Nam Ki Yung, a spokesman for Samsung, told Bloomberg that they were dropping the lawsuit against Apple to ‘streamline the legal proceedings'. The battle between Samsung and Apple isn't over however as Samsung are going to focus their energies on other lawsuits and countersuits in other parts of the world. …

Scientists in France and Scotland have recorded a tiny water boatman insect ‘singing' at up to 99.2 dBa – the same noise that an orchestra will produce while sitting in the front row. This little insect creates the noise by rubbing its penis against its abdomen. The process ‘stridulation' has …

When Asus put time and effort into creating a modified, custom cooled graphics card the world sits up and takes notice, especially when it is based around Nvidia's stunning GTX 580. Today we are looking at the new GTX 580 Matrix Platinum 1.5GB, which gets the special Republic Of Gamers …

As with all news sites, KitGuru is often hit with wave after wave of rumour, intrigue and innuendo. Before writing anything, we like to know that we've heard the same thing from at least 2 sources. Not always possible, but it's our preferred method. Recently, we wrote a speculation piece …

If you have just purchased a new laptop, the next peripheral on the ‘to buy' list is generally a protective carrying case or a stand/cooler. For those people who have just bought a sexy superportable laptop, they certainly won't want to be carting around a bulky stand. The review product …

MSI have been consistently releasing some of the finest enthusiast grade hardware in the last year and today we are looking at their competitively priced CX640 15.6 laptop which features a capable Core i5 processor, Nvidia discrete graphics, 500GB hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 memory. For under £600 is …

The iPad has been a huge success for Apple, and the latest milestone achieved has just been released – over 100,000 applications have been specifically made for it. The iPad hit retail with Apple's promise of supporting ‘almost all' of the 150,000 applications available at the time on the store. …

IBM have announced a spectacular achievement yesterday, which could lead to the development of solid state chips which can store as much data as NAND flash technology but with 100 times the performance and greater longevity. NAND flash memory has hit the market in recent years and current SSD's can …

A new botnet with more than 4.5 million virus infected computers has been discovered. TDL-4, as it is known, is being expanded through rogue websites that offer pirated warez, pornography and file storage. The people in charge of the websites receive between $20 and $200 from the crooks behind TDL-4 …

While the world plus dog spent yesterday going nuts about the idea of integrated graphics that can deliver playable framerates at 1080p, nVidia was piloting a slightly different course. One that involves 3D goggle action. KitGuru dons the specs and looks into the deal being offered. Seems like only yesterday …

Corsair certainly seem to have the Midas touch – earning a great reputation within whatever market they decide to target. Their reputation in the power supply sector is already one of the best and today we are looking at the follow up to the original CX430 – the new CX430 …

The cloud is coming, cried the crowd. For once, it wasn't tennis fanatics at Wimbledon, this time it's Microsoft's online Office marketing team. KitGuru goes online to see what the fuss is about. Roll back 30 years and everyone used mainframes, where storage was remote and backed up centrally. So, …

We have paired up with Hauppauge, and two lucky winners will walk away with a sexy, brand new HD PVR. Hauppauge’s HD PVR is the world’s first High-Definition video recorder for making real-time H.264 compressed recordings. Ideal for those wanting to record their favourite HD content, the HD PVR can …

iPONT International is showcasing its 3D TV without glasses technology at BBC Television Centre as part of the BBC’s 3D broadcast experiment during the Wimbledon Championship men’s final. On Sunday 3 July, screen supplier 3D Exposure, powered by iPONT’s glasses free 3D technology come together to supply 42” and 65” …

Holly Bligh, a 9 year old girl with a genetic condition called albinism which effects her eyesight, sent an email to Steve Jobs, and was stunned to get a reply in the space of a few hours. An uplifting local editorial piece by the Herald Sun in Australia reported on …

Who says the religious leaders are behind the times? Pope Benedict XVI joined twitter earlier this week, using the social networking site for the first time a few days ago. He said “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus …

Angry Birds, the mobile game that has taken the world by storm has finally landed on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Rovio, the creators of the game have so far, sold over 15 million copies of the game and the arrival on the Microsoft platform will be sure to please …

The Apple and Intel ‘Thunderbolt' co venture seems to have gotten off to a good start, with early tests showing a 12TB Raid Array able to write 700 MB/s to a notebook. Firewire 800 was left trailing in the dust. Anand Shimpi, one of the industries most famous site owners/reviewers …

Samsung and Apple have a fairly strained relationship right now, which is being highlighted by Samsung's request to stop the US from importing their goods. The problem revolves around a dispute over iPhone and iPad devices and a patent dispute. Samsung said in a statement on Thursday that they had …

Developers will be busy this weekend as Microsoft have released the second preview of Internet Explorer 10. The IE10 preview launches help support developers to get access to the new features and behind the scenes interface for software development. Dean Hachamovitch from Microsoft said that developers will be able to …

Google+ offered existing Plus users the opportunity to give out free invites to friends – expanding the test procedure further. Unfortunately, the freebies didn't last long and Google had to turn the system off as the new rush of users caused issues for the search engine giant. Google's head of …

A couple of weeks back, AMD released the notebook portion of their Llano platform, dubbed ‘Sabine', which we explained in detail over here.  This left many people wondering when the desktop variant of Llano would be released, and how it would perform compared to the latest offerings from Intel. Today …

KitGuru has reviewed many items from NZXT since we opened a little over a year ago.  Today we have one of their latest items to hit the market, the Sentry Mesh. The Sentry Mesh is a new fan controller that features 5 individual 30 watt channels and it fits into …

If we were being totally honest, I think almost everyone has viewed some porn online. While many would never admit it for sake of embarrassment it appears that some poor bloke has decided to come clean (no pun intended). According to corkstudentnews a student downloaded a ton of porn and …

Google are under fire for allegedly giving preferential treatment to its own services, while demoting rival companies. 1PlusV, a french rival to Google's search engine platform, as well Microsoft, Foundem and German price comparison site Ciao (owned by Microsoft) are complaining that their practices are unjust. Google has allegedly prevented …

Research In Motion haven't had the smoothest of launches after pumping millions of dollars of research and development into their Playbook tablet. Rumours have been circulating that they have actually decided to cancel production of the new tablet. It seems that any company targeting the iPad is finding it tough …