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Nokia held an event yesterday in London called ‘Nokia World' and they presented four new smartphones to help win back customers from rivals such as Apple. Nokia's design strategy director said that he expects attractive hardware design to become increasingly important in order to win new smartphone buyers as the …

KitGuru's earlier shot of the full blooded, desktop Fusion processor got a lot of folks salivating and a few of them spitting bile. For your delight and delictation, we flip it over and shoot it next to something hard and spicy. Phwoah. Life is busy already. With the launch of …

Kitguru have been making an appearance at IDF and today we spent some time with AMD at their ‘hotel location'. They were really keen to focus on their new CPU architecture with integrated graphics. The new ‘APU' chip is code-named ‘Zacate' and it is based on dual Bobcat CPU cores …

Imagine for a moment that you were a multi millionaire and had no limits when it came to budgeting for your gaming rig. Well, today we hope to take you on a trip down fantasy lane as we look at not one, but two of the XFX Radeon HD 5970 …

Intel have released the new version of their Solid State Drive Toolbox which allows users of their drives a wealth of utilities to tweak performance and monitor drive health. Version 2.0 incorporates new features such as the System Configuration Tuner and a Secure Erase feature. The Secure Erase feature will …

Amazon have released a new Kindle advertisement which mocks Apple's iPad while highlighting the low price of the third generation Kindle device. The advertisement shows a man at the side of a pool trying to read an iPad. Unable to make out the writing he asks the women next to …

Sales Data shows that Apple are on track to sell up to 3.8 million Macintosh computers in the September Quarter, up 23 percent from the same period a year ago. The NPD group data released yesterday charts Apple tracking ahead of Wall Street's expectations of 3.7 million for September quarter. …

Halo Reach has been receiving positive reviews so far from most of the online press and it is certainly going to be one of the biggest games this year. Hundreds queued last night to get their hands on a copy. 400 stores opened in the UK to sell the game …

Customers can only buy what stores offer to sell, so here's a question: How can nVidia eat into AMD's DX11 lead if the biggest technology store in the UK only seems to offer graphics cards from yesteryear?  KitGuru sneaks in a camera and goes prowling the component shelves within PC …

The iPad has generated a lot of money for Apple, with geeks across the globe latching onto its portable goodness and high quality screen. Latest rumours in however show that a new version is already in the cards for release next year. The Apple iPad is a great product, but …

As KitGuru reported a week ago, nVidia has pointed the business end of a $2 Million marketing budget at price protecting the channel. This will allow nVidia to drop the price of the GTX460 by up to $30. It's a powerful statement and a very strong move in a bid …

With the launch of the GTS450, those with around £100 ($150) to spend on a new graphics card are in for a treat. Not only is the new nVidia product exciting on paper but we are also seeing some price movement from AMD that's going to make the whole market …

On Saturday Apple opened a new store in the York Region at Upper Canada Mail in Newmarket, Ontario. As with every Apple store launch, it was an almost religious experience with hundreds of people waiting in line for the final moments. By 8 a.m., hundreds had staked out a spot …

Make no mistake, Android is going to take over the world. At KitGuru we firmly believe that Googles smartphone operating system is going to dominate the market, if not this year then in 2011. After we reviewed the Dell Streak a while ago, we were in no doubts this would …

If you share our mindset, then no matter what cooling you have, it will never be enough. With graphics cards getting faster and hotter all the time, manufacturers are releasing third party coolers on a regular basis … these offer lower running temperatures and reduced noise levels. If you are …

KitGuru has reviewed both the AX1200 and AX850 power supplies and our testing has confirmed that this new range from Corsair is setting new standards in their respective classes. Today we look at their AX750, a 750 watt unit targeting a wide audience with a reasonable asking price of £135 …

Yahoo are updating their email service to try and counteract a drop in user count and to help counter alternatives from Microsoft and Google. Yahoo are planning to change their email as part of a project called “Minty” which is aimed at increasing the speed of the service outside the …

Kitguru spends a lot of time looking at mid and  full-tower cases such as the Bitfenix Colossus but don't often get the chance to review more compact cases. Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX systems are favoured by many as they take up a lot less space than their full-size counterparts whilst retaining …

With the GTS450 ready to launch on Monday, AMD's price boffins have pulled out the graph paper and slide rules (we're thinking of you Matt) to determine what needs to be done in order to maintain its share of the DX11 pie. KitGuru gets splattered as the new prices get …

Dell's top man Michael Dell has always been an outspoken CEO and in 1997 when asked what he would do if he was in charge of Apple he said “I'd shut it down and give the money back to shareholders.” Unfortunately this was the start of a ‘CEO-style' feud between …

Intel top dog Paul Otellini said in an interview yesterday that the first Google TV devices will start shipping in September. He has also launched a rather scathing attack on Apple TV – probably because it is using an ARM chip rather than a Pentium M. Otellini said that he …

Arctic Cooling's MX-3 thermal paste is currently one of the best on the market and is favoured by many enthusiasts as it performs very well and is non-conductive.  In fact, KitGuru uses MX-3 to test most of the CPU coolers that pass through our labs. Despite the numerous upsides of …

Many people have been waiting on the new ARM chip and finally details have emerged detailing the 28nm processor which has been taped out at GlobalFoundries. The processor loses the ‘Eagle' name and it called the Cortex A15 MPCore Processor and is going to be licensed to customers immediately for …

AT&T have been sending out news releases and letters to their customers in the last few days which is firing speculation that the carrier may be coming to the final days of the exclusivity deal with the Apple iPhone in the U.S. AT&T have said that this speculation has been …

2010 has been a great year for high quality power supplies with some fantastic releases from leading manufacturers such as Corsair and Enermax. We have reviewed many of the leading supplies such as the AX1200, AX850 and Revolution 85+ 1020W. Today we looking at a new model in the Thermaltake …

Latest reports in from Taipei have shown that Trend Micro are receiving offers for a company take over, although the players involved are being kept quiet at this time. Trend Micro are a publicly listed company which means if the shareholders agree to a takeover deal then the CEO will …

UBS Investment Research have estimated that Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, causing delayed customer purchases of traditional notebooks. “Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,” UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um said. “We …

For years, AMD's been telling us that the future is Fusion. At Computex 2010 it finally ran a full speed demo live on stage in front of the world's press. On 26th July, AMD briefed the press again, with Fusion marketing guru John Taylor taking the lead. Now the threat …

While we have often focused on small capacity Solid State Drives today we thought it would be interesting to have a look at the 512GB SSDNowV+ Kingston drive aimed at the enthusiast audience with specific demands for the highest levels of storage capacity. Kingston Technology were one of the first …

We reported yesterday that Samsung are stepping up a new campaign to shift focus into the television market, using Google's Android operating system. In an announcement from Google – they state they are bringing the web to television screens in the US later this year and then worldwide in 2011. …