There's an old scientific adage, that each action has an equal and opposite reaction. The tricky part is knowing which direction is opposite. Sometimes actions can have some rather bizarre and hard to predict consequences. KitGuru swots up on the challenges facing students in Cameron's Britain – and some of …
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Concerns raised over Amazon Kindle Fire ‘one click’ purchasing
Customers who spend time on Amazon will already be aware of the handy ‘one click' purchasing option which is tied into their user account. You can simply log in, enabled the ‘one click' purchasing option and buy items without having to wade through multiple pages of confirmation. Concerns however have …
Read More »Xmas Gifts II: Son of a list
Inspiration, like the list of people you know you should get something for but can't be asked, never ends. We've been scouring the web, bus shelters and the backs of toilet doors for ideas to hit you with this December – and here's the latest instalment. Enjoy! To be honest, …
Read More »Sony Vita Portable sells out – sales numbers aren’t given
Sony executives will be celebrating in the boardroom today as they have issued a statement to say that they have sold out of the Playstation Vita portable device, via preorders in Japan. Andrew House, chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment told reporters yesterday “There were lines to make reservations …
Read More »Researchers observe Black Hole attacking gas cloud
According to a report published in Nature on Wednesday there is a gigantic black hole absorbing a gas cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is called ‘Sagittarius A' and it is located right in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, it has a mass around four …
Read More »Corsair Performance Pro 256GB SSD Review
Corsair have a wide range of products now in the Solid State market, and they are adding the new ‘Performance Pro' series which uses an updated Marvell controller. This controller has worked well before with incompressible data, so we have high hopes for overall performance today. Corsair list drive bandwidth …
Read More »Western Digital starts shipping drives from Thailand
While Western Digital's hard drive production facility at Navanakorn remains too wet to use, the restarting of a line at Bang Pa-in has been welcomed the world over. Just how bad the damage to buildings will proves to be in the long run – and how long it takes WD …
Read More »Logica sees logic in largescale job loses
When a multi-billion dollar organisation wants to update its systems and see how it could be doing business better, then Dutch-Brit tech specialist Logica, might have been one of their first phone calls. Now it seems that Logica's high-powered analytical skills have been focused inwards. Result? Major job loses. KitGuru …
Read More »Microsoft co-founder creating commercial space travel business
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire has new plans to create a business for commercial space travel. It should take around five years to develop. The US government are cutting back on space flight, so Allen has sensed a gap in the market for investment. Yesterday he showcased designs for …
Read More »3DMark 11 update released
Futuremark have just released an update to 3DMark 11 which is available for download from their website, and from media partners. You can get the update here http://www.3dmark.com/3dmark11/download/update/ Release Notes for 3DMark 11 v1.0.3: Bullet physics library updated to version 2.79 to improve compatibility with future CPUs and GPUs. For …
Read More »AC Ryan VEOLO – New firmware, including free Android Market apps!
AC Ryan have updated the firmware for their latest VEOLO product. Kitguru loved this product, and you can read the review here. They have just released a new update: VEOLO continues its revolution of digital home entertainment, allowing users to take advantage of: I WANT – Apps on TV Free …
Read More »Antec launches flagship Eleven Hundred gaming chassis
From the time the first gamer opened up a cardboard box with an Antec 900 chassis inside, this company has been one of the most popular at LAN gaming events across the globe. The launch of the brand new 1100 series will be welcomed by enthusiasts across the globe. KitGuru …
Read More »Google donate $11.5 million to help fight slavery
Google have announced today that they are donating $11.5 million to several organisations who are fighting against modern day slavery of 27 million people around the world. The associated press said “In what is believed to be the largest ever corporate grant devoted to the advocacy, intervention and rescue of …
Read More »Sapphire Pure Black 990FX Motherboard Review
Today we are looking at the latest motherboard from Sapphire to support AMD's new FX family of processors, with backwards compatibility for the previous generation AM3 CPUs. The Sapphire Pure Black 990FX is a full sized ATX board targeting the high end AMD enthusiast audience. This is also the first …
Read More »OCZ Petrol Sata 6Gbps SSDS to reduce deployment costs by 30%
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), launched the Indilinx Everest-based Petrol SSD Series. The Petrol Series enables further adoption of SSDs in cost-sensitive applications, while taking advantage of real world performance and complete feature set of the Indilinx Everest platform. “Until today, SSD …
Read More »Apple contract Jobs signed sells for £1 million
A simple three page contract that Steve Jobs signed, establishing Apple Computer sold for $1.59 million (£1 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York today. The auction was estimated to generate around $100,000. According to a report on Bloomberg Businessweek, the bidding started at $70,000 in a room of …
Read More »Higgs Boson data captured at CERN’s LHC?
Billions have been spent researching the little fellow, but it seems that scientists (mad, bad and downright boffin-like) may be ready to start discussing the physical characteristics of the Higgs Boson particle. KitGuru picks up a white coat, clipboard and pen to see what's what down in old Geneva town. …
Read More »Mac sales up 13% with more growth expected
Research group NPD have posted the latest domestic sales data from America which show the Macintosh range of computers have experienced 13 percent growth year over year in the first 2 months of Q4. This number is expected to increase in December as people rush for a new purchase and …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 beats Avatar movie for $1bn sales record
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken all records, to reach a sales income of $1 billion in just 16 days. Avatar was a monster hit for James Cameron, grossing $1 billion in just 17 days after release. No one would have expected that a computer game would trumph …
Read More »SAPPHIRE launch Pure Black 990FX motherboard
SAPPHIRE Technology, a leading manufacturer and global supplier of graphics, mainboard and multimedia solutions has just introduced a new mainboard developed to support the latest high performance FX CPU family from AMD, and fully backwards compatible with previous generation AM3 CPUs. The SAPPHIRE Pure Black 990FX is a full ATX …
Read More »G.Skill release RipjawsZ 2400MHz 64GB(8GBx8) quad channel
Today, we reviewed their 16GB 2,400mhz DDR3 kit for Intel's X79 platform, and G.Skill have just announced a staggering 64GB kit for the same platform. Below is their press release: Following the exciting announcement of its extreme RipjawsZ series quad channel DDR3 memory, G.Skill has once again pushed the DDR3 …
Read More »Intel cut Q4 sales projection by $1 billion
Intel have cut their Q4 sales projection by $1 billion, citing supply shortages due to the floods in Thailand. The flooding caused damage to many factories in Thailand that produce disk drives. Intel say that while they don't make disk drives, the shortage has caused wide spread problems within the …
Read More »G.Skill RipJawsZ 16GB 2400mhz X79 memory (F3-19200CL11Q-16GBZHD)
When Intel launched their latest high end X79 platform, Kitguru was on hand with three, detailed reviews. One of the most impressive talking points with X79 is the use of Quad channel memory, which delivers substantially higher bandwidth results than anything else on the market. Today we are looking at …
Read More »Are you a moral person? Take the test and see!
The concept of Morality has been around for as long as there have been intelligent humans on the planet. Looking back at the Latin origins of the word, you can see that it's roots are in ‘moralitas', which means manners, character and the exhibiting of proper behaviour. Who are we …
Read More »Is it too late for Blackberry to learn from Apple?
With a massive plunge in the value of the company, is it a foregone conclusion that Blackberry is on its way to being dead/buried/bought out, or is there still time for it to learn from Apple? If it was to open its ears and learn something new, what would the …
Read More »Xmas gift ideas? Get your KitGuru inspiration here!
The Xmas holidays seem to be a truly cross-cultural idea for the 21st century. No matter what your individual beliefs, there's something really cool about doing nice things for others – including trying to put a smile on their faces when they open up the presents. We may well hit …
Read More »Winners of Tweetsport Naughty and Nice Twitlist 2011 announced
Tweetsport, the real-time tweet by tweet sport news site, announced the winners of the Naughty and Nice Twitlist for 2011 today (Monday 12th December 2011). Tweetsport which reviewed tweets from over 1000 top sporting favourites to find the ‘Sweet Tweets’ and the ‘Sporting Sprouts’ in the categories of football, rugby, …
Read More »Cooler Master Power Fort Christmas Contest
Cooler Master have announced a competition which they are running directly. They are giving away 50 black 5.5 whrs (1500 mAh) power forts! The contest runs from the 12th December until the 3rd of January 2012. They will be announcing the winners on 5th January 2012, posting the information on …
Read More »Amazon preparing update to improve Kindle Fire performance
Amazon's Kindle Fire has been a huge success so far, thanks to the low cost and high standard of online store support. That said, many reviewers and consumers have been complaining about the lackluster performance. Amazon have taken the criticism on board and have announced they will release a software …
Read More »Hewlett Packard: confusing strategy changes cost them billions
Hewlett Packard have a name immediately synonymous with technology. This year however is one they will want to forget, due to a bewildering array of decisions which have cost them literally billions of dollars. Leo Apotheker, the previous CEO decided that the company should no longer develop smartphones and tablets …
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