Hewlett Packard may axe 8 percent of workforce

Hewlett Packard are considering axing up to 8 percent of its workforce, or 25,000 people to help reduce costs and to help the company deal with a drop in sales and marketshare. The enterprise servi... more.

Amazon may have been shrinking the size of their Kindle e-reading devices, but it looks as if they are planning to make the Kindle Fire tablet larger, later this year. According to the latest rumours ... more.

According to the latest figures from research firm Gartner, Samsung holds the top spot in global mobile phone sales. The Korean appliance giant has taken this gold medal spot from Nokia recently. Sams... more.

There has been much confusion in enthusiast circles recently when it appeared that multitasking was 'broken' (or modified) on HTC's Sense 4.0 user interface, which is present on their latest Android s... more.

We reported last week that Apple are preparing a new range of Macbook laptops, but we have received information last night that Apple will not only be upgrading the processing power, but they will be ... more.

A few months ago we first reported on the rumours that Apple were planning to enlarge the iPhone screen for the next release. The rumours have been persisting since we first published the details and ... more.

We all have a friend that looks like they have just moved in. You know that they have been in that house/flat for many years, but they still look like they are in the process of arriving. We get this ... more.

SAPPHIRE Technology has just introduced a new model in the successful HD 7000 series.  The SAPPHIRE HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition is the first card based on the revolutionary new graphics GCN (Graphics ... more.

To the uninitiated, seeing people talk seriously about Chinese chips might make you think the speaker has gone prawn crackers, but there is a threat and the threat is real. nVidia spends time and reso... more.

We received an email today from an industry source who claimed that the Gigabyte Z77X-US5H had V-Core problems. The claims were made that this would hinder overclocking and perhaps even potentially re... more.

Do you remember when HTC and Google launched the Neuxs One back in 2010? In a fast moving mobile world we don't remember much of early 2010 either. Anyway, the Nexus series of phones have always been ... more.

Samsung has just introduced a pair of standard looking monitors, look into the specification sheets however and you'll discover that they are actually the first monitors that support the Mobile High D... more.

One of the most popular choices among enthusiasts is Silverstone. For a relatively small company, they have - over the years - released a number of surprising/amazing/desirable chassis. For 2012, they... more.

We received an interesting news email today from G.Skill which highlighted the fact that they are topping the ranking list on overclocking site HWBOT. They are the most popular DDR3 memory brand si... more.

Apple have released security fixes for OS 10.5 Leopard, to protect against Flashback malware. The update also disables outdated Java and Flash functionality. Apple machines were infected last month... more.

Those of you who are into photography will be blown away by an image released in the last week. It is the largest single shot photograph ever taken of Earth. This new image has surpassed NASA's upd... more.

Regular readers of Kitguru will remember our review of the excellent Sapphire Vid 2X products in January. Zardon even tested it with a Macbook Air, showing it powering two additional 24 inch screens! ... more.

Last Friday we reported that Apple's own personal assistant Siri thought that the best smartphone ever was the Nokia Lumia 900 4G. Obviously, word reached Apple and they have issued a 'fix' that res... more.

HTC's successor to the highly grossing Wildfire S budget Android smartphone has been known about for a while now, with specifications leaking just the other day. Today it has been revealed (as rumou... more.

Autism is a serious problem for many families who are dealing with a child who suffers from the condition. According to the latest reports, Apple's iPad is helping some of the kids into interacting be... more.

Facebook's initial public offering hasn't generated the expected demand, so far. Analysts claim that institutional investors are concerned about the companies growth prospects. Some investors expre... more.

Yesterday we published a news story on Scott Thompson, who left Yahoo as CEO. Further news on the story today indicate that Thompson did not step down, but was in fact fired from his position on Sunda... more.

There are very few laptops as appealing as the Thinkpad, and Lenovo have updated the X1 model with carbon fibre materials. We reviewed the X1 on Kitguru last September. Lenovo have increased the sc... more.

You can measure how well a market is doing in a number of different ways. IDC takes the ‘macro’ view – researching hard to work out what the long term patterns look like. At the other end of the... more.

KitGuru is so long in the tooth, that it actually pines for the days of manually peeking and poking games into a Vic 20. Anyone wearing a blank expression has not been around long enough. These days, ... more.

Looking back over the past 6 months, there have been a lot of stories about product availability - for both nVidia and AMD. Most of it centres on the lack of production capacity available at TSMC for ... more.

With Samsung in the driving seat as far as the summer Olympics goes, it won't take much from Apple to usurp the Korean sponsor - given the fervour of its fans. Scanning the interwibble for info, KitGu... more.

Reporting on a phone's official accessories is not some we would typically do, but Samsung has offered up some interesting accessories for the Galaxy S III flagship that was revealed a couple of weeks... more.

Loewe have denied rumours that they were selling to Apple for $113 million. The German TV maker issued a statement saying the report has 'absolutely nothing to do with it'. AppleInsider released in... more.

Apple appear to have found a quick marketing fix for the 4G branding of the new iPad. The LTE enabled tablet encountered much criticism outside of the USA where the 4G part of the celluar radio just w... more.