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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Google releasing $199 tablet to target iPad

Google are releasing a cheap $199 tablet, co branded with Asustek Computer Inc. They will showcase the new tablet at their developers conference this week and it is aimed at taking market share from Apple. Bloomberg spoke to sources close to the matter. The new Google tablet will be 7 …

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Mozilla release faster, safer Firefox for Android

Mozilla have released a new version of Firefox for Android which they claim is ‘smarter, faster and safer than ever before'. The new version of the browser is said to be twice as fast as the stock browser and it starts faster than before with quicker page loading times. They …

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Xigmatek Gigas Case Review

Xigmatek are well known in the enthusiast market for producing a range of high quality products which offer very good value for money.  One of their most impressive recent products was the gigantic Xigmatek Elysium case that we looked at a few months back which was good enough to earn …

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Lulzsec members confess to DDoS attacks

Four members of the hacking group Lulzsec were in court this week. Two of the four people charged with internet crimes and Jake Leslie Davis, 19 and Ryan Cleary, 20 were facing charges of hacking the CIA and Britain's Serious Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Cleary from England has pleaded …

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Government to introduce ‘pay to prove innocence’

The government are to introduce a Pay To Prove Your Innocence scheme. As part of the revised Digital Economy Act, suspected internet pirates will have 20 working days to appeal against any allegations of copyright infringement and pay a fee of £20 to do so. The details of this legislation …

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BBM for Blackberry 10 OS images leak online

Images of what is purported to be the upcoming Messenger for Blackberry 10 operating system have leaked online. These images were posted online at N4BB, which highlight a darker theme said to improve battery life. The annotations to the images posted online hint that the darker colours and optimisation for …

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HTC halts operations in Brazil, poor sales to blame

Recent reports have revealed that HTC is cancelling its planned One Series launch in the Brazilian market and ending all phone sales in the nation, effectively immediately. As such, dozens of employees have already been released while a small presence will remain to offer support for current devices. “After careful analysis of …

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Microsoft spend $1.2 billion on Yammer

Microsoft have agreed to spend $1.2 billion on buying Yammer, a social networking firm targeted towards businesses. Microsoft shares dropped 2.7% to close at $29.86 after the deal was announced. Yammer allows companies to set up social networking sites for their business demands. Their employees can then sign up for …

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Optical boffins create 50 GIGA pixel camera

Reports coming out of the University of Arizona say that a 75cm square cube of optical processing goodness has been assembled, with a jaw-dropping resolution of 50 gigapixels. KitGuru eyes its collection of low cost lenses and wonders if any of them will have the right screw attachment. Memory storage …

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Are Apple losing their edge after death of Steve Jobs?

Apple's sales figures may still be staggering, but ValueWalk published an article yesterday claiming that Apple may be losing their cutting edge after the death of Steve Jobs. Author Brian says that pundits are already wondering if Apple are losing their edge, due to a lack of ground breaking products …

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Sheryl Sandberg, first woman to join Facebook board

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg became the first female to join the company board of directors. Facebook recently became a publicly traded firm with a Nasdaq debut that raised billions of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement “Sheryl has been my partner in running Facebook and has been …

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Macintosh users spend 30 percent more on hotel bookings

An interesting story broke today based around the myth that Apple users have a higher disposable level of income. Orbitz Worldwide have said that people who use Apple Macintosh computers spend up to 30 percent more each night on hotel accommodation. Therefore the online travel agency is starting to show …

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Tesco’s Brand Users aren’t the brightest

Rob Salter Category Director of entertainment at Tesco’s claims that the new Ultra Violet digital system is just too complicated for the average customer. The comment was made during a debate at the Future of Entertainment Summit in London, where Salter implied that Tesco customer’s would not be able to …

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Lian Li Announces EATX PC-V750

Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd, today announces a brushed aluminum EATX supported chassis with a front placed PSU – PC-V750. With the power supply placed in the front, the PC-V750 can hold the hardware that enthusiasts desire while keeping a smaller footprint. Shorter than most EATX supporting chassis, the 440mm (17.32”) …

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CM Storm Stryker Chassis Review

Today we are looking at the latest CM Storm Chassis which bears a striking resemblance to the CM Storm Trooper we reviewed back in November last year. The CM Storm Stryker has one key, noticeable difference … it is white. Cooler Master are not the only company to be experimenting with …

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Retina based Macs could generate $1 billion profit

Management consultant Rags Srinivasan has reported on gigaom that the new Retina powered MacBook Pro computers could generate another $1 billion in pure profit for Apple. He explains that Apple made a gross margin of $18.5 billion in the last quarter, it says $1.65 billion of this is due to …

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Samsung Galaxy S III demand exceeds supply

Samsung said today that they aim to sell more than million Galaxy S III smartphones by July. They said that they should achieve a 10 million sales record within two months of the product launch. Sadly, the company are struggling to create the smartphones fast enough, due to component shortages. …

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KitGuru Gaming – Weekly Round Up

For those tech readers who don’t always get time to check out our game related content at KitGuru Gaming – here is a round up of content published in the last week. “A Video Game Lasting 10 Years Reveals a Version of the End of the World” One man with …

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