Most of us have seen some cool ‘hacks' in movies – but the most widely dreamed about is when we can walk up to an ATM in the street and take out all the money, without anyone knowing. While many people believe this is fictional, it appears that with the …
Read More »Apple make progress with ‘white’ iPhone 4
While many people have been focusing on the ‘antennagate' ordeal with the troubled iPhone 4, Apple have been quietly dealing with issues with the release of the white version of the phone. “As has been suggested before, one of the main dilemmas is argued to have been getting the right …
Read More »Amazon attack Apple with new £109/$140 Kindle
KitGuru has been reporting lately on the success of the Amazon Kindle price drop which has led to massive sales – which have been so high that Amazon recently published on their site that there was a temporary sell out of Kindle units. Amazon announced two lighter, more advanced units …
Read More »Marketing companies and other spammers thank BBC
When you're a news journalist, it's hard to know when reporting on a story just makes it worse. KitGuru has already heard from 3 different marketing companies who learned that a database of over 100 million people's details has been made publicly available, by reading the story on the BBC. …
Read More »Tt eSports keyboards and mice chosen for World Cyber Games
The biggest gaming competition on the planet is the World Cyber Games. Brainchild of the absolutely-gaming-bonkers South Koreans, WCG's headquarters in downtown Seoul has seen massive growth in the sport over the past 10 years. One of the areas of biggest improvement is in the human-machine interface and the gaming …
Read More »Facing the future of animation at Abertay
A University of Abertay Dundee researcher believes his studies into facial expressions could shape the future of animation by making film and computer game characters more credible. Robin Sloan, PhD student and lecturer based in the Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games, has devised a set of rules to …
Read More »Spire TherMax Eclipse II Cooler Review
High performance coolers are much loved by the KitGuru audience and today we are going to review a cooler from Spire, a European manufacturer. This is a product we believe our readers will find rather intriguing. After all, the company claims that “this towering cooler is built to deliver the …
Read More »Buffalo beefs up wireless routers with DD-WRT
KitGuru has reviewed quite a few Buffalo products since we opened a few months ago and so far we have admired their combination of competitive pricing and performance. Many people don't know however that Buffalo offer alternative open source firmwares for their wireless routers which are meant to deliver an …
Read More »Rambus triumph in legal battle – nVidia and partners to suffer
For a long time now there has been a legal battle between Rambus and nVidia over the use of three specialised patents. The Trade Commission (ITC) has finally delivered a verdict, in favour of Rambus. This case has been centered around the use of three patents which handle the control …
Read More »Google arming to challenge Facebook
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google are holding talks with gaming companies with the aim to create a new competiting social networking service to go head to head with the ever popular Facebook. Google have been in discussions with the makers of online gaming which include Electronic Arts …
Read More »New Mac Pro with up to 12 CPU cores due for release
Apple has announced a new Macintosh Pro line up with support for up to 12 processing cores and 50 percent greater performance when compared with the last generation of machines. Apple are going to be using the new Intel quad core and 6 core Xeon processors with clock speeds up …
Read More »Kindle sells out at Amazon – Riding the iPad wave
Many analysts thought the success of the iPad would spell the death of the Kindle, but thankfully the $189 e reader has been riding the iPad wave and has sold out at Amazon. Helped in part by a very successful and well timed price reduction. The company has placed a …
Read More »Asus GTX460 price cut confirmed
Word in the UK channel today is that Asus has issued a price cut of around 15% on its GTX460 cards. KitGuru has been following the fate of nVidia's best Fermi card to date and the picture painted is one of confusing shades and tones. Asus is one of the …
Read More »Intel – Light Beams can replace Electronic Signals
Intel Corporation today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers. The company has developed a research prototype representing the world‟s first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers. The link can move data …
Read More »Silverstone Sugo SG07 Review (featuring Zotac H55 ITX)
Silverstone have created some stunning products and we have always been avid followers of the Sugo Range which redefined small form factor chassis designs when they were first released, making HTPC both practical and quite beautiful to look at. The Sugo range has been in production for many years now …
Read More »Catalyst 10.7 released – VLC support and new eyefinity features
ATi have released a new set of drivers – Catalyst 10.7 (which stands for 2010, July month) and they bring some interesting new features to the table. 10.7 driver has GPU acceleration for H264 content in the ever popular VLC media player V 1.1.1. This pull down detection has been …
Read More »Wired come under flak for publishing Apple piracy guide
Wired have been the subject of much discussion lately as Leander Kahney's ‘Cult Of Mac' blog, published by Wired has been the centerpoint of a ‘superguide' showing the end user how to jailbreak their phone and access stolen software. Wired have tried to defend their reasons for publishing the guide …
Read More »StarCraft II Launch Event – LONG Queues in London
If Blizzard sells through 4 million copies of a game at £35 each, then they will generate £140 million ($200m) for the channel in no time at all. Most of these copies will be sold online, indeed many have already been downloaded, awaiting activation. So would anyone actually turn up …
Read More »Dell ditch online Ubuntu sales
Dell have stopped selling laptop and desktop machines with Ubuntu preinstalled, but they say they aren't ditching the OS completely as its going to be offered via phone sales. Dell spoke to PC Pro, and a spokesman said “we are currently making some changes to our Ubuntu pages, and as …
Read More »KitGuru deal of the day – Asus P6X58D-E X58 – Socket 1366
Are you shopping for a new motherboard for your Core i7 upgrade? then be sure to check this out over at ebuyer. We don't often pimp products by linking directly to stores, but it seems there is a bit of a price war over the Asus P6X58D-E X58 which normally …
Read More »Asus TS Mini Windows Home Server (1TB) Review
At KitGuru we love our networking and spend a lot of time with gigabit switches and ensuring our home configurations run as fast as possible, both over wired and wireless. We have reviewed several NAS systems lately from makers such as Buffalo and Synology and today we are going to …
Read More »Starcraft 2 Gallery and Concept artwork
With one of the most hotly awaited PC gamers ever to launch in the next day, we thought it would be a good idea to present a gallery to our regular KitGuru readers who have been hotly awaiting this title. Statistics in show that millions of people are still playing …
Read More »Are Apple fanboys the most loyal?
I was reading an article in the San Francisco journal today and it actually made me wonder if Apple fans are really the most loyal in the industry. Could Apple ‘fanboys' be the most passionate on the planet? Almost everyone reading this today will be aware of the heated ‘debates' …
Read More »STARCRAFT II: Blizzard prepares to open its legs early
Sitting here typing, the countdown clock says 16 hours, 14 minutes and 23 seconds until a nuclear launch is detected. It's been a long time coming, so can the game itself actually match all the hype and expectation? KitGuru will have spies on-site at tonight's Midnight Openings to discover just …
Read More »Playdom in demand – Disney in talks for takeover
Playdom are a game maker many of you might not have heard of however they create titles which are played on sites such as Facebook – titles such as Farmville are still incredibly popular. Their net worth is estimated to be between $400 million and $750 million which gives a …
Read More »Enermax TB Silence and Apollish Vegas Fans Review
KitGuru staff always use the best quality fans we can find and this week we already reviewed the excellent Silverstone 18cm Penetrator. Today we are going to look at several fans within new cooling ranges, from Enermax. The 120mm and 140mm TB Silence fans (UCTB12 and UCTB14) and a glitzy …
Read More »Corsair A50 and A70 Coolers Review
KitGuru has been impressed in 2010 with Corsair's range of products. A short while ago the Corsair AX1200 power supply walked away with our most prestigious award and is to date the highest scoring product in our reviews database with a phenomenal rating of 9.5/10. The latest products Corsair have …
Read More »Twitter create giant data centres
Twitter have been growing at an exponential rate in recent months and this has unfortunately had the side effect of causing some downtime for the social networking service. Its fair to say that when 300,000 new accounts are created every day that you would expect this however. To counter these …
Read More »Apple start delivering refunds for iPhone 4 bumpers
The Apple iPhone 4 antenna issues have been dominating press reports for weeks now and Apple stated a while ago that they were going to give away bumper cases for nothing and to offer refunds to customers. They have stuck to their word and have begun processing refunds for the …
Read More »GF106 still not delivered to partners – nVidia GT440/GTS450 delays
KitGuru has spoken with 3 different graphic card companies and none of them has any visibility on the new GF106 core parts that nVidia will market under the GT440 to GTX450 brands. Interesting, but what does it mean for technology buyers? Back at the start of May, KitGuru put its …
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