Two European standardisation bodies have ruled that micro USB is to become the new standard interface port for smartphones in Europe. They have said “we made available the harmonized standards needed for the manufacture of data-enabled mobile phones compatible with a new common charger. This is the most recent development …
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Viewsonic to showcase 4 inch phone/tablet hybrid at CES
CES always brings new products on display from all the leading manufacturers. The latest news in suggests that Viewsonic will be highlighting a new phone/tablet hybrid, much like the Dell Streak. The Viewsonic smartphone will have a four inch screen and is capable of making phone calls across the Google …
Read More »Hack the Nook Color into a Kindle
eReaders have proved popular, with sales figures surpassing analysts best estimations. Barnes and Noble recently released the Android powered Nook Color which doesn't support the Kindle Application for Android. Not until a group ‘rooted' the Nook Color to run a customised version of Android that means you can download Android …
Read More »Fold with Kitguru (Team 196420) – feel good and win goodies
With 2010 almost at a close, it seems a good time to remind everyone that our very giving community started Folding only a very short time ago, and their progress has been phenomenal, even in such a short space of time. When I initially announced that KitGuru had an official …
Read More »MSI adopt Killer 2100 Nic into new Motherboards
MSI have partnered up with BigFoot Networks, the company responsible for the excellent Killer 2100 Nic which KitGuru reviewed months ago. This means that we might be seeing their hardware incorporated into the higher end MSI motherboards, such as the Big Bang Series. We also reviewed a Big Bang motherboard …
Read More »Android Trojan ‘Geinimi’ warning issued
A nasty new trojan has hit the Android scene, dubbed ‘Geinimi. It seems to be originating from China and is capable of gathering personal information and sending it out to remote servers. Lookout Mobile Security found the trojan, which they are classing as one of the worst yet on the …
Read More »Hackers break PlayStation 3 ‘private key’
It has been a long time coming, but a hacking group called ‘fail0verflow' have announced that they have deciphered the private key that Sony uses to authorise code to run on PlayStation 3 systems. With access to this private key, code can be run as if it was authorised by …
Read More »4.27 million illegal copies of Black Ops downloaded
It will come as no surprise to many to read that ‘Black Ops', the latest title in the Call Of Duty franchise is reportedly the most pirated game of 2010. Torrentfreak, the popular bittorrent site have awarded COD: Black Ops the highest amount of illegal downloads in 2010. It shows …
Read More »XBox 360 can kill discs – John Lewis customer services speaks
One customer experiencing a problem is to be expected. The world is an imperfect place, screws fall out all the time, what can you do? However, speaking with an experienced customer service-oriented company like UK retail giant John Lewis can reveal much more. KitGuru brings you the latest on the …
Read More »RIM deny Playbook battery issues
There have been rumours and whisperings from various sources that the upcoming Playbook from Research In Motion was suffering from poor battery performance. The company have responded saying that their product will offer ‘superior performance with comparable battery life.” A few days ago, analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Brothers sent …
Read More »Skype add video calling to iPhone and iPad application
Skype are adding video calls to their iPhone and iPad application in a strong move to try and increase market share across Apple's product range. Adoption has been good already, but with added video support they feel more people will download the software. Skype have just rolled out this new …
Read More »Dell XPS 15 (L501X): Intel Core i7 840QM/2GB nVidia GT435m Review
Dell have been releasing some great mobile products in 2010, and KitGuru has reviewed many of their range, including the fantastic Dell Streak smartphone which earned our coveted ‘must have' award. While Dell release a plethora of machines over the course of a year, one of their latest releases caught …
Read More »Apple forcing Dell and HP to drop prices
Dell and Hewlett Packard are dropping the pricing of their ultra portable 13 inch machines as they are getting hit hard by the adoption of Apple's latest MacBook Air machine. Sales figures are proving very healthy for Apple so far. The Adamo is a great machine and has proven a …
Read More »Nintendo issue 3DS health warning for young kids
Many gamers are waiting anxiously for the new Nintendo 3DS, the 3D portable gaming device which is set to take the portable gaming market by storm. Strangely, Nintendo have issued a warning that the device should not be used by children under 6 when in full 3D gaming mode. Nintendo …
Read More »Mozilla post user names and passwords, by accident
Many people are in for a shock today as their add on website addons.mozilla.org have accidentally posted their usernames and passwords. This mistake happened after the browser company posted a file containing email addresses, first and surnames and an md5 hash representation of user passwords on a publicly available web …
Read More »Apple order 65 million screens for 2011
When you speak about Apple, the numbers are usually incredible, and nothing has changed with the latest reports to hit our news team this morning. Apple have apparently placed an order for 65 million 9.7 inch iPad displays for potential sales in 2011. These 65 million orders have been placed …
Read More »Microsoft’s XBox 360 eats your game disc, who’s responsible ?
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 …
Read More »Is Windows 7 ideal for a Tablet? Microsoft think so
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 …
Read More »Google TV is failing to generate a buzz
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 …
Read More »Apple get sued over privacy rights
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 …
Read More »Amazon Kindle being bought by iPad owners
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 …
Read More »Turn your HD6950 into a HD6970 at no cost
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 …
Read More »Get a new iPhone for Christmas? jailbreak it !
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, …
Read More »Man tries to rob restaurant with iPhone
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 …
Read More »Microsoft Kinect, some cool mods and uses
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 …
Read More »Thermaltake 1350w PSU with 80 Plus Silver rating announced
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 …
Read More »Man spends over 200,000 years playing Black Ops
OK, we cheated a little, it's Man with a capital ‘M' and it includes all of them. Everyone of them. As a species. Including the females. Confused? KitGuru explains! Data released by software publisher shows that humanity has now spent more than 600,000,000 hours playing BlackOps online since its …
Read More »Looking forward to 2011 – and don’t forget the freebies
Yes, It is the time of year for a little bit of a wind down. When we relax with friends and family, eat far too much, have one drink (or more) too many and play with new tech gadgets. As I have a cool bottle of champagne open right now what better …
Read More »Logitech tells Gigabyte to stop shipping Revue
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 …
Read More »Windows 8 to run on ARM
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 …
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