If you like a lot of screen real estate then this latest machine might just make your next shortlist. Kitguru reader Ponni sent us information on a new machine which is going to ship with not one, but two 17.3 inch screens. The Gscreen Spacebook is currently only available for …

Thermaltake have had great success with their range of TT eSPORTS gaming keyboards, with the MEKA G1 earning many awards worldwide. It is a tasty product on paper, incorporating a beautiful finish with fast response time, USB 2.0 inputs and high grade mechanical keys. Today we are looking at the …

Do Microsoft XBox 360 consoles scratch discs?  Some of our readers say yes, Microsoft themselves say no. Who to believe?  Well, KitGuru's favourite expression is ‘follow the money'. If there's a problem, then you will find a business. So we did. And we did. Anthony Taylor runs a business called …

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 bombarded with cheap imports – promising an iPad like experience for pennies. KitGuru's been sent …

Kitguru has been very impressed with the full range of Synology products over the last year. They have been targeting a wide demographic … from the enthusiast user on a strict budget, to large businesses and corporations who demand ultimate performance. Today we are looking at their new RackStation RS3411xs …

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 with the Unreal people about Unreal subjects. Unreal! While senior technical artist and designer Alan Williard helped …

By now, some of you will have read our review of the killer Arctic Cooling MC001 Bluray Media Center system. If you haven't then check it out over here. Arctic Cooling are giving our readers the chance to win this totally silent, passively cooled media center, with built in BluRay …

It has been a really strong year for Arctic Cooling as they have continued to expand upon their product portfolio, even diversing into a range of rather interesting remote control toys, for land and sea. Today we are reviewing their latest Entertainment Center, a sleek HTPC with an ATOM processor, …

Microsoft announced yesterday to the press that they are tightening up their security system for Hotmail users. This update is coming in two stages, with the second phase – to ban common passwords rolling out in the near future. It would seem to be common sense not to have a …

Appleinsider received some information from Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo indicating that Apple are no longer placing orders for MacBook Air superportable machines with 2 GB of memory. With Mac OS X Lion around the corner, it appears as if Apple are moving to a strict 4GB only memory configuration …

A new survey released by a psychologist, Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University says that ‘The Google Effect' is changing the way people's brains choose to remember. We all know the situation, you get into a conversation with a friend and they say ‘I Google'd this', or ‘Google it!'. With the …

Search engine giant Google have had a good week, releasing reports that sales beat projections. Their sales rose to $6.92 billion, which was more than the %6.57 billion projection of analysts which were surveyed by Bloomberg. So far it seems a good start for Larry Page, who replaced Eric Schmidt …

Google launched a new application this week called PhotoVine, for Apple's iOS mobile platform. The software is a photo sharing application with a social networking twist. Users can take photos from their phone and then share them with friends, inside the application. The key focal point of the concept is …

An XFX Mousemat? eh? say what? Normally, when someone offers me a mousepad for review, I immediately feign interest and try to end the phone call as quickly as possible. Reviewing a mouse mat is generally as exciting as watching the coffee pot boil. Today however we are looking at …

Old folk always twitter on about the things they don't teach you in school. With a games industry flowing with customers, the next generation of games will need to be even more amazing. But who's going to program them? Epic has the answer with an express tutorial course. Just after …

We have reported before that Google are working hard to target the social networking sector. Previous failed attempts such as Google Wave and Buzz seem to be fueling their efforts to ramp up their efforts. College professors are apparently looking into ways of using Google+ as a student learning tool, …

Android has been reeling recently, after being targeted by several viruses and trojans. The latest spyware application known as Zitmo has been altered to target the Android Platform. Axelle Apvrille, an antivirus analyst for Fortinet has written a blog post on the subject. She says “Lately, there’s been an active …

Kitguru has reported before that Amazon are set to take on the Apple iPad, after the success of their Kindle E-Reader, but the Wall Street Journal has new information on the subject which would indicate that an October release is possible. Taking on the iPad is proving a tall order, …

Motorola Xoom users will be pleased to hear that Honeycomb 3.2 will be released soon for tablet. A Motorola representative spoke to CNET and said “Google has started rolling out Android 3.2, in phases, to Motorola Xoom users”. The update is going to offer a new viewing mode will will …

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're used to it. So how different does the shelf need to be, before KitGuru spies feel compelled …

Many months after the initial launch there are a wide variety of HD6970's available on the market, some with custom coolers and others with enhanced PCB designs. Today we are looking at the new HD6970 board from HIS, which features both. The HIS HD6970 IceQ Mix is the latest high …

Microsoft executive Tami Reller has spoken out at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, which took place yesterday in Los Angeles. She said that any PC today which is capable of running Windows 7 will be able to power the upcoming operating system. Leading UK news site thinq_ ran a story …

When Dirt 3 was released the developers pointed out that their advanced code took advantage of extra physical processing cores.  Putting this to the test, we decided to investigate this further, by comparing an AMD quad-core and hex-core processor, on the basis of an upgrade. DiRT 3 was only released …

For many years robots have been unable to work alongside humans, due to safety issues. However recent developments in motion sensing could translate into massive improvements for various industries. NASA technicians sent a humanoid robot to the International Space Station last year. The Robonaut 2 (R2) was a torso with …

Most people reading this will have played a game at one time on their phone, or tablet. But some interesting news was posted yesterday which claims that Apple may release a system that can project games on your iPad, but projecting them to the TV in your living room or …

Yesterday we reported that AntiSec had compromised a defense and homeland consultant server. To prove the point they decided to publish 67,000 email addresses online, 53,000 of which were .mil origin. Associated Press analysed the list and said that there were 67,000 addresses, not 90,000 as first claimed by the …

Popcap, the maker of successful entertainment games such as Plants V Zombies have been bought over by Electronic Arts, in a deal worth around £815 million. EA have been aiming to compete in the ‘casual games' sector, against Zynga and this move will help them enhance their portfolio. EA are …

Intel’s Sandy Bridge series is powerful. No doubting that statement. But while most of the media attention has been focused on the 2500k and 2600k processors, that’s quite far away from what the average user will be buying in terms of price and performance. Most people won’t spend much 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 simply cranking up the clock. Intel's research teams rapidly embraced this increased parallelism and now we're moving …

If you frequently take a train or a bus, like me, you may have noticed the growing population who are adopting tablets. This time last year, I would have been hard pressed to notice a single person using a tablet on my train. Last week there were at least 8 …