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Acer president falls out with board and resigns
Acer have announced the resignation of their chief executive and president GianFranco Lanci. He is leaving immediately. A company spokesperson said that Lanci held different views from the majority of the board, which lead to a rift which could not be healed, despite several months of negotiations between the parties. …
Read More »UK TV Show Top Gear sued again, this time by Tesla
Geeks love Top Gear, especially for the witty, politically incorrect comments of Jeremy Clarkson. Tesla Motors are suing them for allegedly falsely representing the performance of one of their cars. In a segment which aired three years ago, Top Gear showed a Tesla Roadster running out of electric charge during …
Read More »Windows 8 to copy Apple’s Time Machine: ‘History Vault’
A leak has shown that Microsoft are planning to imitate the behaviour of Apple's popular Time Machine which has been built into Mac OS X now for many years. Windows 8 will have the new feature, called ‘History Vault'. History Vault is based around the Shadow Copies feature that has …
Read More »Google receive penalty from FTC
The Federal Trade Commission is ordering Google to implement a comprehensive consumer privacy program that will force the Internet Giant to submit to regular privacy audits for 20 years. This is the first time this has ever happened in the Federal agencies history. The action comes from a settlement of …
Read More »Zotac GTX 580 AMP! Edition review
After the somewhat disappointing release of the GTX590, I decided to turn my attention again to one of the best video cards on the market, Nvidia's GTX580. This card has been leading the single GPU charts since it was released and Zotac sent us their fully pimped out AMP! Edition. …
Read More »Apple iPod to be charged by human heart
Scientists are working on a new power system which can use the human body to supply enough power to charge electronic devices. This new milestone can use tiny movements such as the pinch of a finger to generate power. The team involved are presenting their findings at the National Meeting …
Read More »World stops turning for 1/5 of Earth’s population
OK, it's official. Almost 20% of the world's population has downed tools and tuned in TV sets. A hush has fallen over many parts of the world – and yet for the countries unaffected by this latest interruption to business, there is absolutely no sign that anything is going on. …
Read More »Confirmation that nVidia slashed the price of GTX590
There have been a lot of rumours in the market, saying that nVidia had to reduce the price of the GTX590 prior to the launch. But the question remains, is it true and how much was the drop? In the KitGuru analysis, it was hard to see why nVidia had …
Read More »Updated GTX590 BIOS rushed out to repair reputation
KitGuru spies have uncovered the reason behind all of the recent commotion at NV headquarters. It seems that the stories being reported by customers on sites like Overclockers.co.uk mean that the “It is an old driver issue” statement might be binned in favour of something more substantial. KitGuru applauds nVidia's …
Read More »Twitter co founder Evan Williams leaves to pursue startup
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has posted on his personal blog that the time had come to leave Twitter and look at doing something new. Twitter announced earlier this week that co founder Jack Dorsey was back in charge of product development and that Williams who had replaced Dorsey as CEO …
Read More »GAME buying 3DS consoles from Tesco to resell
Eurogamer have found a secret document which doesn't put retailer GAME in a very good light. The article claims that GAME authorised their staff to take £1,000 out of store tills in order to buy game and console packs from Tesco and restock them as preowned. Tesco is said to …
Read More »Symantec claim Rustock takedown reduced spam by 33%
Between March 15th and March 17th, global spam volumes fell by 33.6% according to a Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence report. We can all thank Microsoft for this global improvement. The Rustock botnet takedown has been a good thing, spam in a single week has reduced from 52 billion to 33 billion. …
Read More »Mozilla release Firefox 4 for Android OS
Mozilla have released Firefox 4 mobile browser for Android OS based phones. The new Firefox 4 for Maemo and Android mobile platform based devices offers tabbed browsing, bookmarks, Firefox Sync support and even addons. The new Firefox 4 doesn't however support old ARM v6 CPU based phones and Adobe Flash. …
Read More »Dell exec says Apple iPad will eventually fail
Executives from both Dell and Hewlett Packard have spoken out against Apple this week, with the Dell executive saying that the iPad will fail. The Hewlett Packard executive claims that Apple have less than ideal relationships with their partners. Andy Lark, Dell's global head of marketing spoke to Lisa Banks …
Read More »Cryo Nemesis System Review (Sandybridge, 4.8ghz)
Not everyone is comfortable building a performance computer from scratch, so from time to time we ask for certain systems to be sent into our labs for analysis. One of our favourite UK system builders are Cryo Performance Computing, based in Bucks in England. When I first reviewed one of their …
Read More »Gamers weep: Crysis 2 DX 11 patch not coming
A few days ago KitGuru ran a story, which originated on Maximum PC. Apparently Crytek were going to be adding a Direct X 11 patch to the PC version of Crysis 2. Be prepared for some bad news, because an official statement on the Crytek forums indicate that this was …
Read More »AMD fighting hard to get Fusion into consoles
AMD are working hard in the efforts to get Fusion involved in the next generation console platforms. Neal Robinson, AMD's Senior Director of Content and Application Support said that Fusion systems make sense for consoles. Fusion should give the Xbox more headroom and a good balance between CPU and GPU …
Read More »Nokia attack Apple with yet more patent claims
Honestly, if we could make this into a soap opera it would be more popular than Eastenders in the UK. Nokia have taken the gloves off again, and have responded to Friday's ITC determination by filling another complaint against Apple, this time they are claiming that seven new patents are …
Read More »Microsoft Windows Thin PC Beta – for free
Microsoft are offering a locked down version of Windows 7 designed to turn cheap hardware into ‘thin-client' systems. This operating system is geared to administrators who want cheap and easy PC systems for employees, without having to worry about fixing a plethora of user generated problems. This operating system is …
Read More »Forbes gives AMD top spot in notebook GPU sector
Nvidia have not taken as much market as AMD in the last quarter, according to reports from Forbes. They say that AMD's market share of the discrete notebook market has been rising steadily since 2007. AMD own 60 percent of the GPU market making it the leader, by a long …
Read More »Brenthaven 15″ ProStyle Macbook Sleeve Review
When you spend way over £1000 on a new 15″ Macbook Pro, it is important that you keep it in the best possible condition by protecting it when you're carrying it around. While some users may prefer a full-size laptop bag, there are many people for whom this is just …
Read More »Amazon launch ‘cloud drive’ for music storage
Amazon, the giant online store have launched a new cloud based storage service called ‘Cloud Drive'. To tie in with the launch they have also released a music player which they call Amazon Cloud Player for the web. Amazon have launched the storage service as a means to access music …
Read More »NASA plans for Mars Rover 3D camera cancelled
NASA have had to cancel plans to build a 3D camera for the next robotic rover that they will send to Mars. Time was against them and they wouldn't have had enough time to test the device for inclusion on the new ‘curiosity' rover scheduled to launch later this year. …
Read More »Apple iPad 2 sell out ‘down under’
This won't come as a shock to many, but the iPad 2 has sold out right across the globe. Latest reports highlight that Australia have run out of stocks, with the Sydney flagship store turning away potential customers. Some customers had waited for more than 50 hours at the Sydney …
Read More »Cooler Master GX 450 Power Supply Review
If you are in the market for a power supply for your new media center, then today we might just have the perfect partner for review. Cooler Master have just released their GX 450 power supply which features a strong 12V rail, double layer EMI filter and an intelligent 120mm …
Read More »Asus GTX590 and HD6990 review
Asus are one of the biggest component manufacturers on the planet producing some of the finest video cards for both Nvidia and AMD markets. Today we are looking at their new ultra high end video cards, the GTX590 and the HD6990. Well this is the heavyweight show down isn't it? …
Read More »Kingston update V100 Firmware to stop boot failure
Kingston have discovered a technical issue with their SSDNow V100 solid-state drive. A small percentage of their drives have been shown to hang at BIOS and fail to boot. Kingston has developed a firmware update to address this issue. In their own words: We have learned that a small percentage …
Read More »Eszter Morvay from IDC on tablets-n-targets
How can one woman from a small city in the north of Hungary make CEOs and Vice Presidents across Europe, Middle East and Africa break out in a cold sweat? Simples. You give her years of experience, razor sharp wit and a BS detector tuned to the max. Then …
Read More »AMD challenge Nvidia on company blog – we are the fastest
AMD are issuing a challenge to nvidia, saying that their HD6990 is the fastest graphics card on the planet. Dave Erskine has used his company blog page to issue this to AMD, demanding that Nvidia justify their claim to have produced the world's fastest graphics card with the GTX590. AMD …
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