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For as long as there have been ROM drives, there have been reports of discs being eaten. It's not a new topic, as anyone who spent a day trying to get the remains of a cassette tape our of an old-world music centre will testify. Does the problem still exist …

CES is a big show for Microsoft as they are said to announce their new software for tablets at the event. Analysts and skeptics however have little faith in the company being able to mount a serious challenge to the Apple iPad. Keith Goddard, CEO of Capital Advisors Inc. said …

Google do many things right. They still have the most comprehensive online search engine and their Android operating system is taking the world by storm. But for every success story there has to be a product sitting in the shadows, failing to excite customers. Google TV was expected to be …

It was going to happen, but Apple are being sued by an iPhone user over advertisements appearing in mobile applications. The lawsuit is dated December 23rd and seeks to establish a class action status covering all iPhone users who have downloaded any applications since December 2008, according to Bloomberg. This …

When the iPad was launched, and we found out the sales figures many analysts thought that it would be the death of other tablets, such as the Amazon Kindle. This has not been the case as Amazon have said that iPad owners are buying the Kindle, just for books. Amazon …

For those of you who have bought a HD6950 recently, you may be rather pleased to hear that Techpowerup have a new mod to unlock it to HD6970 performance levels. AMD has two methods of locking the shader count on all of their recent GPUs. The first one relies on …

Did Santa bring you a shiny new phone from the world's most popular fruitmaker? You may be pleased to hear that the new untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 has been released. While KitGuru doesn't condone the use of jailbreaking your iPhone, we know a lot of people who do it, …

In one of the weirdest stories we heard over the Christmas holidays, it appears that a man in Connecticut tried to rob a Northern Indian Restaurant, by trying to pass his iPhone off as a handgun. Thankfully there are no applications on the iTunes store to assist robberies, although we …

The Microsoft Kinect device for the Xbox 360 has been a surprise success story, selling millions of units since it was released. As with many popular pieces of hardware, the modding community are out in full force finding weird and wacky uses for the motion sensing device. Many owners found …

If you're considering running a pair of GTX580 cards or maybe even 3-way CrossFireX with Radeon HD 6970 cards, then you're going to be placing quite a strain on your system's PSU. While large power supplies have been around for ages, they have generally been very inefficient. KitGuru casts its …

Logitech have instructed Gigabyte Technology to stop shipping Revue set top boxes from December 2010 to January 2011 while it waits for Google to complete software updates or release a new version of the Google TV software package. Market analysts had predicted that shipments of the Revue STB's would exceed …

Microsoft are due to revamp Windows 8 to support ARM processors, the leading hardware platform for mobile computer on tablets and smartphones. Windows 8 however is probably not due until 2012, or possibly 2013. ‘Windows 8' isn't the final release name of the upcoming operating system, but when we use …

Microsoft have issued a warning regarding a serious vulnerability found in all versions of Internet Explorer. If this is exploited by a malicious webpage, the bug is serious enough to allow attackers to take control of the computer. IE has had its fair share of patches and fixes this year, …

It appear that the upcoming iPad 2 may have a larger speaker system if leaked pictures of new cases are anything to go by. Alibaba.com, a global business to business trading system is currently offering silicon cases for the iPad 2 and like previous versions they have a position on …

Kitguru loves the Dell Streak smartphone. We have reviewed it twice with Android 1.6 and last week with Android 2.2 Froyo. It is one of the sexiest smart phones on the market with a massive 5 inch screen for all your media viewing. Dell have announced that they are dropping …

In a living room or bedroom the pleasures of high definition entertainment are becoming adopted by a wider audience. A large percentage of users however don't want a full sized computer chassis taking up precious space next to their television. KitGuru has reviewed many products from A.C. Ryan but today …

Apple are living dangerously, by recently banning the Wikileaks application from their store. Hacker group ‘Anonymous' are currently targeting any company who are cutting support from Wikileaks, and we would expect Apple to be next on their hitlist. Apple have banned the iPhone and iPad application designed to give people …

BenQ are planned to release their first tablet PC in Taiwan in Q1 of 2011, this informed has been confirmed by a company representative. The R100, as it will be called, features a 10.1 inch touchscreen with 1024×600 resolution and will be running the formidable Google Android Mobile operating system. …

Mozilla have released Firefox 4 Beta 8, the last preview it will release this year before it makes a leap into the final version in 2011. Beta 8 appeared last night, a day later than original planned and is now available for download on the official Mozilla download site. It …

Public hero and driver guru Terry Makedon, known to everyone as ‘Catalyst Maker' will be moving jobs within AMD. He wanted to let our readers know of his plans and he is excited about what lies ahead in 2011. I had a chat with him earlier today. He told us …

Regular readers of Kitguru will know that we have been singing the praises of the Amazon Kindle for months now. It appears that the public are taking to it also, with sales around 8 million. This is higher than analysts predictions. Strangely enough Amazon are very coy when it comes …

Microsoft are due to announce a version of the ever popular Windows Operating System that will run on ARM processors. KitGuru heard rumblings last week about this, but BloomBerg this morning have confirmed they heard the same thing. This version of Windows will be tailored specifically for battery powered devices, …

By now you should have read our review of the XFX HD6850 Dual Fan cards in CrossfireX. Our review showed how good these cards are, not only in single screen mode, but running across three screens at 5760×1080 resolution – we even have HD videos in the review showing their …

Microsoft have been pumping a lot of money into Windows Phone 7, but unfortunately it hasn't yet proved to be the resounding success they needed. While 1.5 million phones have been shipped during the first six weeks this isn't reflective of actual sales. Microsoft have been stating that 1.5 million …

Without question, 2010 has been a great year for gamers. Both AMD and nVidia have released fantastic graphics cards at all price points and there really has never been a better time to upgrade your system. If you had £300 burning a hole in your wallet and wanted to improve …

Once again Apple are driving their competitors to release new products and our moles in Taipei told us last night that three big players, Asus, Acer and Lenovo are going to be releasing 13.3 inch super portable computers in 2011. This will be based around the Sandy Bridge platform. We …

Motorola are going to be showcasing a new Tablet using the Android 3.0 (codename Honeycomb) operating system at the Consumer Electronics Shows next month. Motorola have released a brief video on YouTube highlighting the introduction of a tablet computer based on the upcoming Google Android Honeycomb operating system. The clip …

Intel's David Allen has confirmed that they are going to include the ability to remotely disable Sandy Bridge systems from a remote administration console. This will be a great asset to corporations and Intel will include this anti theft technology in the vPro equipped chips. Allen spoke to IT Business …

Apple have released iAd Producer, a new software package to design interative, media rich adverts using web standards for distribution through its iAd network within iOS applications. This is a direct attack on Adobe's Flash developer tools, todays industry standard suite for the same thing. Apple's new HTML5 development package …

Last week AMD launched their new HD6970 and HD6950 graphics cards. Kitguru has reviewed several partner boards and found them to be high performing, great value for money products. Due to adverse weather conditions in the United Kingdom our review of the Sapphire cards has been a little delayed but …