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As the UK's biggest LAN event ever prepares to kick off at the International Centre in Telford over this Bank Holiday weekend, major sponsor Medion is launching a huge competition to win a £1,000 Pro... more.

We all think that moving around at 600 mph in a plane is quite normal, but hardly any of us will ever get to travel at more than 720 mph (Mach 1). In the USA,  boffins at the DARPA advanced project s... more.

As a kid, you always know that there was something a little magical about those simple shapes. You'd spend hours creating marvellous scenes and impossible inventions, which in all honesty, hardly look... more.

It's been a slow time for graphics recently. Both AMD and nVidia have good products in the market. And that market, overall, has not been strong. Against that backdrop, the pace of innovation has slow... more.

The folks on yahoo have flagged the plight of a poor student, 20 year old Chris Staniforth from Leicester, who appears to have died from 'sitting still' for too long. After spending hours researching ... more.

No matter how hard you try, it can be a right pain to get all of the cabling right when hooking up any set of kit. With all of the various options, cables are often too long or short or simply have co... more.

Something of a collector's item has been authorised by The Jedi Council. It's an evolution of the XBox 360 into something unbelievably cute. But if you already own one - would you buy another? KitGuru... more.

The culture of Italy is rich with jokes about the Carabinieri, the national police force. While the population might sit around cracking puns, the Carabinieri themselves are busy buying the best vehic... more.

We know, with the holiday season upon us, you're worried that you won't be able to stretch out on an Emperor-sized bed and flip through KitGuru's latest content on a 47 inch screen - while ensuring yo... more.

These iPad things seem to be everywhere. Every time a major technology site runs with a rumor about the super-featured iPad 3 coming soon to a retailer near you, that your local store actually gets bo... more.

Yesterday, at the De Vere West One conference centre in central London, the folks from Epic ran a single day, game development training session called Unreal University. KitGuru was on hand to chat wi... more.

Rather than the limited convenience of a convenience store, the modern supermarket aims to sell you everything you need, under one roof, including the petrol you need to drive there and back. We'r... more.

KitGuru has long been fascinated with the increased levels of parallelism in modern processors. The move to Core, showed the world that doing more work per cycle is usually much more powerful than sim... more.

While Microsoft has been the undisputed master of making software dollars, there's a new kid in town. Born in July 2008,  it looks like junior is set to hand out some mighty beatings over the next de... more.

There has been a lot of rumour on the web about XBox 360 disc (disk?) scratching over the years, but it seemed to come to a head last Christmas with the launch of the Kinect. KitGuru chased Microsoft ... more.

Even if you're only a casual reader of the technology sites, you can't help but come across the expression 'grey market'. When there were hundreds of suppliers in the market for systems and components... more.

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 mil... more.

While the majority of YouTube is full of stuff that wasn't worth the upload bandwidth that carried it to the great server farm in the sky, other clips put a smile on your face. Here's a handful of... more.

High-end products are, generally, aimed at one particular market - hardcore gamers. Sure, the workstation lovers get some focus and there is the more-money-than-sense group, but it is the hardcore, li... more.

"Beat the bushes to startle the snakes" is an age old maxim and, in the case of KitGuru's earlier story about the possible merger of AMD with nVidia - we seem to have stirred up a response to the ques... more.

News just in from the interwibble indicated that Apple is in the process of instigating 1984-style controls on what you can do and when you can do it with an iPhone. Big brother is watching you - and ... more.

Last week, we brought you news of a complete set of companies that were undergoing significant changes as a result of the UK market changing from 2010 to 2011. In a tough market, BT is looking at its ... more.

In a surprising U-turn, the folks on the Shuttle stand at Computex 2011, were sharing their views on the imminent death of the notebook market. KitGuru examines, extrapolates and exercises its right t... more.

It's been a while since any cooler has got close to the performance of the NH-D14. But at Computex 2011, something new was indeed spotted, on a small stand, tucked away in a dark corner. This could ge... more.

OK - there's no way that we'd get a direct quote like that from a company as steady and stable as Intel, but this is definitely the sentiment around the 10th floor in the Grand Hyatt at the heart of T... more.

With the recession in PC sales continuing to bite, many of the UK's resellers would, or already do, sell second hand kit. KitGuru trundles off to Channel Web to investigate. The mighty Incisive Pub... more.

What price can the fastest card in the market command?  It's a good question and one that AMD and nVidia have both been seeking to answer recently. KitGuru noticed a price move by accident. Here's wh... more.

Periodically, the back office systems are upgraded at KitGuru. It gives us a chance to experience the world in the same way as a regular consumer. When we got to the browser, we had a bit of a shock. ... more.

Although the regular consumer might not be aware of the way that the PC market shifts and changes, data experts IDC are fully aware of all the major movements in the market. So what are their latest f... more.

It's one thing to launch a technology, it's quite another to get people to buy it. While the journalistic reception for Fusion-class processors has been universally positive - are people actually buyi... more.