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Friday’s nostalgia Kick…starter: Dizzy Returns

Dizzy Returns

While this sort of piece normally belongs in the games section of KitGuru, it's hard to resist when some of your earliest gaming memories come back in full Kickstarter style. Dizzy Returns has been announced by the Oliver twins, the original creative minds behind the boxing gloved handed, egg shelled …

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Dual SIM Galaxy S III spotted in China

Samsung has a good thing going with its Galaxy S line of smartphones. The Galaxy S III recently trumped 30 million, and counting, in sales. In order to further capitalise the growing Chinese smartphone market Samsung could be about to debut a dual SIM model in China. The Galaxy S …

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Sparkle unloads high calibre GTX660 on market

While some of these names may be unfamiliar, graphics specialist Sparkle is part of one of the world's largest manufacturers of graphics cards and its Calibre series is aimed squarely at the affordable nVidia performance market. KitGuru notices something new on the site and heads off to investigate. The Calibre …

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Intel gets Creative with latest acquisition

Over the past few years, Intel has been acquiring a series of technologies and patents that will, it hopes, position it better for 3-5 years down the road. Alongside operating system technology and – more famously – McAfee in the software/security area, Intel has now purchased Creative's clever bits for …

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Europe slowed Britain’s broadband development

Fibre

Culture secretary Maria Miller revealed today that the reason the promised super fast broadband hasn't reached some of Britain's most rural areas in the past year, is because of European delays placed on funding. While the request was put in for £530 million in state aid in the early months …

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Facebook wants to share data between all its services

Facebook

Facebook has announced through an email to its users, that it plans to share information between itself and affiliate companies like Instagram and similar services. This is expected to begin as of the 28th November. While the email wasn't specifically about this, in the Policy section, it does discuss a …

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Flying Orbit Helicopter orb controlled by Brainwaves

A team called Puzzlebox are releasing a stunning looking gadget which they hope will teach children about neuroscience, open source coding and focus. Their helicopter toy is controlled by brainwaves. Puzzlebox have been creating code to turn EEG signals into instructions that a robot can understand. In the last 24 …

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Spin Torque MRAM – a sign of the future

You may have missed the breakthrough technology news by Everspin in recent weeks, so we thought we would take a quick look at the hardware. The company have created Spin Torque MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) which uses an electron ‘spin' to store data in a magnetic, rather than electronic …

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Win prizes with BeQuiet!

Our good friends over at BeQuiet! are running a competition right now to win a power supply and 120mm Silent Wings 2 fans. These fans are PWM Versions, not available yet for purchase. They are clearly in a festive mood as they are giving away 30 special Advent Calendars as …

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Apple told to reveal HTC deal details to Samsung

A U.S. Judge has ordered Apple to pass over details of a legal settlement with HTC to rival Samsung. This will include the terms of a 10 year patents licensing agreement. Samsung had filed a motion to force Apple to reveal details of their HTC settlement which was reached on …

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Sapphire Edge VS video with a chance to win one!

As Sapphire unloads one of the most exciting systems ever seen onto an unsuspecting market, KitGuru has learned that you can win one of these beauties. Check this video for details on how to win. Sapphire's Head of Global PR, Bill Donnelly, is on hand in this video to present …

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Win OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSD and Kitguru fans!

We have yet another competition up for grabs today for 3 lucky people. OCZ have donated a spanking brand new 120GB RevoDrive 3, still sealed in the box. OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCI-Express SSD 120GB PCI-E Solid State Drive / Workstation-Class / 130,000 IOPS / 120GB-480GB Designed with power users and …

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India Facebook arrests mirror British censorship

Kapil Sibal

I've been talking about British censorship on social networks Twitter and Facebook a lot here at Kitguru in the past few weeks. From the Poppy Burning fiasco, to the extended look into social networking and freedom of speech, the fact that people are getting in legal trouble for making single, …

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THQ in financing talks to avoid closure

THQ

THQ has entered into talks with a couple of potential investors, in the hope that it will secure funding to see it through the current tough times with stock pricing and game delays that sees it threatened with liquidation. However while those discussions are ongoing, it has managed to secure …

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Nokia launches Here Maps onto iOS

Last week Nokia announced its Here Maps initiative, a cross-platform mapping solution that has today arrived for Apple iOS devices. Nokia Here Maps will make “you feel like a local wherever you go” with traffic and public transport overlays and voice guided navigation. You also have the option to download …

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