Are you any good at overclocking? then you might want to enter the new competition held by ASrock which features sponsors Kingston, Sparkle and Roccat. The world leading motherboard brand ASRock announced today to organize 2012 Global OC Competition with Futuremark®, the creators of the world's most popular benchmarks and …
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Hard drive prices begin the return voyage to ‘normality’
As any keen KitGuru reader will tell you, the price of the Samsung 1TB F3 drive has been our yardstick through these troubling, post-Thai-flood times. Good news on drive prices has been trickling through, but it's likely to become a deluge soon enough. KitGuru installs a wide-angle lens and scans …
Read More »513 million Internet users in China
Official data posted online shows that more than 500 million people in China now use the Internet. According to the report, almost half of them use weibos, microblogs similar by design to Twitter which can bypass the countries powerful censors. These weibos are growing in popularity as people can get …
Read More »Microsoft is heading for extinction, says CES
According to the organisers and exhibitors of the Consumer Electronics Show in Lost Wages, Nevada, Microsoft is the past and – it would seem – that Google is very definitely the future. KitGuru battles insomnia/Jet Lag to check the facts. We all think of the world as windows-based, multi-tasking, interwibble …
Read More »Xebec Tech HTPC Mini Wireless Keyboard Review
Xebec Tech are not a very well known company but they produce a very interesting and innovative range of products which are quite different to what else is available on the market at the moment. All of their products are designed in the UK and their product range encompasses multimedia …
Read More »Is upcoming Nokia Lumia 900 enough to help declining sales?
Nokia are said to release their Lumia 900 smart phone this coming March in the United States. Other countries will get the new high tech phone shortly afterwards. A newsletter was published on the Nokia Developer Website which read “It will become available exclusively through AT&T in March. With support …
Read More »Apple join Fair Labor Association, open doors to partners
Foxconn have faced criticism regarding employee suicides in the last year. Apple are one of their most important partners and are trying to counter the complaints against the working conditions of the people who build their products. Apple have joined the Fair Labor Association, which was set up in Washington …
Read More »Russian Mars Probe crashes into Pacific
Russia launched a scientific probe, meant to visit a Martian Moon, but it never made it out of the Earth's orbit. It has crashed into the Pacific Ocean, around 700 miles west of Chile at the weekend, according to Russian Military spokesman. This probe, called the Phobos Grunt was circling …
Read More »Rupert Murdoch attacks Google over ‘piracy’
Twitter is the new launching pad for celebrities to air their views online, and the latest comes from Rupert Murdoch who has used his Twitter account to attack Google. He has accused the search engine giant of highlighting free links to the Mission Impossible film, causing piracy concerns. Google have …
Read More »Sony Z Series Review (i7, Bluray, 1080p, Raid SSD, AMD HD6650, dual battery)
Sony have been creating laptop computers now for as long as I can remember and their flagship range, the Z Series has been attracting the attention of aficionados for many years. Today we are looking at a fully specified Z Series system with Core i7, full 1080p 13.1 inch screen, …
Read More »Virgin Media give 100mbit customers upgrade and reduce cost
Virgin Media offer some of the United Kingdom's fastest broadband services but as we have reported in the past, their services have received a lot of complaints from unhappy customers. In July last year they trialed a 1.5Gbps broadband service but it did nothing to stop tens of thousands of …
Read More »Win Steelseries Fnatic Limited Edition and Konnet goodies!
Another year, and some more great prizes to be given away to our lucky readers. Seven lucky people will end up with some tasty hardware next month. Today we are giving away some very nice Steelseries branded Fnatic goodies and 5 Konnet iCrado Plus stands for Apple products! We have …
Read More »Gamers abandon retail stores. Sales decline in 2011.
Market Researcher the NPD Group have analysed games sales last year, focusing on December. Their report is very negative showing an overall drop of 8 percent in 2011, with December suffering from a 21 percent decline in sales. While the focus of the report is the American audience, the figures …
Read More »Microsoft making a fortune from royalties on Android smartphones
Microsoft have had their claws in the Android market now for some time, and the latest reports we have received show that LG are paying them royalties now to use the Android operating system. The agreement between LG and Microsoft mean that they can use patented technology in their phones …
Read More »Flagship Apple Store in China pelted with eggs
An Apple retail store in Beijing, China has been pelted with eggs after customers were told that sales of the iPhone 4S would not go ahead as planned. Police were called to the scene and they tried to calm down aggressive customers unhappy with the situation. Apple have stopped all …
Read More »IBM break Moore’s Law, bit size cut to 12 atoms
IBM announced yesterday that after five years of work that they have been able to reduce to number of atoms required to create a bit of data. Computerworld have reported on this and spoke to Andreas Heinrich, IBM research Staff member who said “Looking at this conservatively … instead of …
Read More »Marvell unveils world’s fastest NAS technology
We're used to seeing Marvell and Sandforce going head to head in the SSD space. Each new generation brings innovation – which directly leads to improved performance. But, to be honest, SSDs are bloody quick already. We're more likely to notice an improvement on a part of our everyday-use network, …
Read More »Asus VE278Q 27 Inch Monitor Review
A growing number of people are gradually learning about the benefits of using a higher resolution screen. Long gone are the days of 1024×768 resolution as the latest Steam survey in December 2011 has highlighted. 17.59% of gamers are using a 1680×1050 panel now, with 7.77% using 1920×1080. Only 4 …
Read More »Will Intel’s new Atom bomb or do really well?
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) over in Vegas as given the world a chance to see what's coming next. For Intel, there has been an increased emphasis on mobility. We turn the VideoScope on the latest chip sitting inside the Medfield platform and find out a little more about what …
Read More »Sapphire Vid 2X Display Expander Review (with Macbook Air)
If you own a laptop computer quite often you are limited to a display on a single, or dual screen via DVI or HDMI out. Sapphire have released their new Vid 2X Display Expander, which allows two monitors to be connected to almost any computer, including a netbook, laptop or …
Read More »Asus say notebook shipments will grow 30% in US this year
The PC market is facing tough times due to the world economy, however ASUS seem positive about 2012 claiming that their notebook shipments should grow in the US alone by up to 30% this year. Asustek US president Steven Chang spoke to Digitimes and said that Best Buy is the …
Read More »Sharp fail Apple approval for iPad 3 screen production
Sharp have been removed from the Apple iPad 3 panel production list as they failed to pass the Apple approval process for mass production. Reports are circulating in the Far East that LG Display and Samsung Electronics will be the two partners supplying LCD screens for Apple's iPad 3 tablet. …
Read More »Super high resolution televisions dominate CES
CES this year seems to have a strong focus on television sets, and new super high resolution 4k screens are stealing the show. LG Electronics are getting high priority this year as they have announced a new 55 inch OLED screen, that is 3/16 of an inch thick and their …
Read More »Replacement for Playstation 3 held off
Sony have said that they aren't planning to showcase a new console at this years E3 videogame trade show, many people had hoped that Sony would be announcing the successor to the Playstation 3. Kaz Hirai, who is in charge of the videogame and consumer electronics business said that the …
Read More »Facebook, Reddit and Google consider turning themselves off
If you travel around the world, then there are few things that make you feel the spirit of freedom quite as much as attempting to access web sites and finding a friendly message from the local government instead. In a variety of languages, these messages explain that you couldn't possibly …
Read More »Fantastic FitBit fitness fun for, well, everyone
Give the average Nigel or Nigella a bunch of extra days off at Xmas and, with almost 100% certainty, they will be able to show you an extra inch around the waist, the ability to live in the same clothes for a week without the need to wash or shave …
Read More »Amazon and Warner Brothers legalise robbery
Well, maybe it's not quite legalising robbery, but it's certainly moving one of the darkest arts (torrents) firmly into the mainstream. After years of chasing the internet villains and pirates for making films available to download, it looks like two of the world's biggest brands have decided to join in, …
Read More »Intel Core i7 3820 and ASrock Extreme4-M review
Intel launched their X79 platform in November and Kitguru was on hand with multiple reviews. Since this launch we have looked at several motherboards primarily targeting the hardcore, high end overclocking audience. There is no doubt the Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition is the processor to rule them all, but …
Read More »HP Envy 14 Spectre premium ultrabook announced
HP have officially revealed their new Envy 14 Spectre at the CES show in Las Vegas. This is being pitched as a ‘premium ultrabook' with a price tag to match. It measures 0.78 inches thick and is reminiscent of a Macbook machine in the PR picture we received. The Spectre …
Read More »Black hole fires a high energy ‘bullet’ according to astronomers
Astronomers, working with NASA's Rossi X Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope have recorded a black hole ejecting a highly energetic knot of gas, likened to a ‘bullet', into space. Gregory Sivakoff, astronomer said in a press release “Like a referee at a …
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