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Orange charges man 20x more than T-Mobile

While the vast majority of the phones being connected in the future will be on ‘Full Monty – totally unlimited' contracts, we're still living at the end of the dark ages when it comes to mobile charges. Every now and then a bill doesn't make sense – and the rare …

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UK ISPs block Promo Bay

Promo bay

While Pirate Bay spinoff promotional tool The Promo Bay, has no links with copyright protected material – in-fact it by definition promotes submissions from unsigned artists – it has now been blocked by most of the major ISPs in the UK, mere days after its own domain was launched. Presumably …

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Religious conflict could end with video conference

Peacetech

While the internet has let us do many things in the last couple of decades, one of its overarching achievements has been bringing people from around the world together and humanising them. In an effort to continue this trend, muslims and christians from the Philippines on either side of a forty year conflict are …

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Now that’s how you play a board game, online

Wolfire Games, the original creators of the Humble Bundle indi funding initiative, has released a new game that shows just how board games should be played online: with far less rules and real time players. One of the problems with online board gaming – and card games to a similar …

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And they wonder why retail is dying ….

I was having a chat with my father today, and to be honest he knows very little about technology. I would imagine quite a few people (although not all) in their late 50's/60's+ would find technology rather bewildering. Especially as they aren't living it daily, like us. He was complaining …

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Winner of the ADATA and GEIL memory kits!

Kitguru runs a lot of competitions every month, and two have just ended this weekend. We had to go through all the data and pick the winners. Geil kindly gave away two EVO Veloce 8GB 1866mhz kits and the two winners have been picked today. The answer was ‘a: Golden …

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UK Xmas spend hits £222k a minute on busiest day ever

With the last of the year's wage packets safely deposited and the kids/significant others off to school and work respectively, Monday 3rd December will be a bumper, bonanza day for online stores across the UK with spending projected to pass £222,222 a minute at some point today. KitGuru munches a …

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New iMac assembled in USA

iFixit, the teardown site have laid hands on the new 21.5 inch iMac. While most of it is ‘business as usual' the interesting news is that they are being ‘Assembled in USA'. Nearly all of Apple's gadgets and computers are assembled in China, however the new product shows that Apple …

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Apple iPad still dominating China market

Apple are facing stiff competition worldwide by many Android and Windows tablets, however they are still the dominant force in China where they are claiming over 71 percent share. Analysys International figures show that the tablet market in China is very strong, and growing – with 2.6 million devices sold …

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Arctic F12 Pro PWM 120mm Fan Review

Today we are going to take a look at one of Arctic’s fans, the F12 Pro PWM. This is a 120mm model which is designed to be ultra quiet. It has a number of interesting features including a unique two-part rubber damped enclosure and PWM fan speed control.

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KitGuru visits Multiplay i47

Gamers from across Europe have battled the adverse weather conditions and descended upon the International Centre in Telford for the last i-Series LAN of the year, i47.  This is a smaller event than the summer i-Series (i46 this year).  KitGuru's reporters were on hand to take a look around. We …

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Eating out and mobile phones, do they mix?

I posted earlier this week about the increasing dominance of technology in our lives. I think we all struggle when we don't have our phones, or tablets, or laptops handy. I was in a restaurant earlier this week for dinner with a couple of friends, and I noticed around me …

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Apple ‘anti fanboys’, just as bad?

Did I ever tell you about my friend Dave? Dave simply hates Apple computers. Dave isn't his real name, but he has a Facebook account and reads this page, and likes his privacy. I like that about him. He likes the Kitguru Facebook page because ‘Most people commenting there seem …

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