Contrary to our report a few days ago on Samsung's Galaxy S III being delayed across the globe until later this year due to concerns about the time gap between its announcement and availability, it turns out there's still a glimmer of hope we'll get it sooner rather than later …

As promised at CES by CEO Steve Ballmer earlier in the month, Microsoft's commercial Kinect for Windows (v1.0) SDK along with its accompanying, slightly customized hardware has just officially been launched and for a suggested MSRP of $249.99 you might be quick to scream out “Madness!” in line of the …

Microsoft provided a brief overview on Tuesday of its Internet Explorer 10 web browser that will be a part of Windows 8. The details shared confirm that there will be two versions of it; a normal Windows application not unlike existing versions of IE, and a second “Metro-style” touch-friendly browser …

We reported a short while ago that Intel were planning to release a new range of Core i5 processors with the graphics circuitry stripped from the die. Makes sense really as many enthusiast users have never touched, or have no interest in using that part of the design, opting for …

Our last iPad 2 competition was such a success that we are working with ARIA to give away another tasty 32GB iPad 2 to a lucky ARIA/KITGURU reader. Today we are launching a new competition to win a brand new 32GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 worth £479! (You can even pick …

Today we are looking at the latest ‘audiophile' grade Asus Xonar Essence One external soundcard and digital to analogue converter. The Essence series of products have targeted the enthusiast and audiophile user now for some time, using high grade components such as BurrBrown DAC chips. Today we analyse the latest …

Neil Young is one of music's veterans, a man who has released more albums than I can remember. He isn't a big fan of the digital era. He said MP3's should die. I can't disagree. I remember when music was important, and the release of a new album really meant …

be quiet! scored first place in reader's survey for best power supply brand at German Hardwareluxx. It is one of the biggest online publications for computer hardware with their own quarterly print magazine. Even more, their readers are known for being a very enthusiastic and well informed community. One of …

The Apple train keeps ‘a rolling with no sign of slowing down. The latest reports from analysts Canalys show that Apple shipped 20 million personal computing devices in Q4, claiming 17 percent of the total market. This is split between 5 million Macs and 15 million iPads. Hewlett Packard are …

Reportedly the image of the smartphone seen below is that of the previously rumored BlackBerry London prototype; the first real image of the phone spotted on the net thanks to the folks over at CrackBerry. In efforts to stand up tall amongst the vastly growing smartphone world, RIM doesn't refer …

Thanks to a conspicuous document making it's way onto the internet, we can learn more about AMD's plans for the HD 7000 series of cards beyond the now launched HD 7970 and HD 7950 models. We knew the line-up would (eventually) be as busy as prior generations were, if not …

Following an announcement just last week from Valve announcing a closed beta of its new Steam app for iOs and Android devices, the app has now become widely available to all and sundry and has been reported to work faultlessly even on some of the oldest Android phones. The Steam …

While the world plus dog might have thought that the days of graphics battles between the industry giants might fade with time (and the ever increasing market share being taken by integrated solutions of all colours), it seems not. Both ATI/AMD and nVidia are still hard at it – ready …

We're pleased to announce a unique campaign has just kicked off on KitGuru with major UK reseller, Aria. With almost 20 years experience in the supply and support of high quality components and systems, we're happy to welcome Aria on board. KitGuru pulls out a magnifying glass to have a …

James ‘Lizard' Gorbold, the editor of Custom PC has left his role at Dennis Publishing in the heart of London and moved north to Boston, according to our sauces. Originally part of the PC Pro team, Gorbold followed Gareth Ogden (now buccaneering with Corsair) across to tech porn title Custom …

Research In Motion have struggled to compete against Apple and Android devices and 2011 was a disaster for the Canadian organisation. The situation was that bad that Co CEO's Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down to hand the reins to a new leader. They needed a CEO with fresh …

ARCTIC are releasing a new home entertainment center which features an AMD Trinity A8 APU with 4GB of memory and up to 1TB of storage. ARCTIC are preinstalling Windows 7 Home Premium and a TV tuner. ARCTIC claim the machine is Windows 8 ready for future upgrades. We received some …

Yesterday we ran with a story which explained that Megaupload users may start losing their data. The latest news to reach us is that the data will be safe for a while longer. Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload is under trial for piracy, money laundering and racketeering charges and subsequently …

Acer are planning to attack the market this year and are targeting four sectors – tablet PC, smartphone, notebook and ultrabook. Acer Chairman JT Wang spoke about the plans at the company ceremony for the Lunar New Year. A key focus for Acer is to attack the ultrabook market and …

Research In Motion had a rough year in 2011, but it appears that they have escaped unscathed in the United Kingdom. According to the company themselves, their handsets claimed the number 1 spot. Data released has highlighted that Blackberry have averaged 27.7 percent market share in 2011 and have now …

Today AMD release their new HD7950 graphics card, tackling the GTX580 ‘head on' at the same price point. When we were finally in a position to review HD7970 partner hardware, XFX stole the show thanks to a dramatically effective, highly modified ‘Double Dissipation' version of the card with dual fan …

While Nvidia regroup to launch their next round of discrete graphics cards, AMD have been running amok in the high end. Their HD7970 has reclaimed the single GPU throne from the GTX580. Today AMD release the HD7950, which should be available in the UK at a slightly more palatable price …

AMD launch their latest graphics card today … the high end HD7950. We have analysed several partner products already this morning and in this particular review we will focus on the custom Sapphire card, which is supplied in an overclocked state with proprietary two fan cooling solution. While our other …

Initially available through Japanese channels, Hitachi has outed a 7200RPM version of its 4TB Deskstar series HDD for folks seeking top end capacity with the best possible performance. Oddly however, despite there being 1TB platters available these days, Hitachi has chosen to stick with previous generation 800GB platters, meaning there …

Gabe of Swiftech has kindly given us a treat over at the XtremeSystems Forums in the form of some pre-release CGI drawings of the company's upcoming waterblock to suit the new Radeon HD 7970. The block gives full coverage, making physical contact with the entire PCB area of the card …

Alongside Windows 8 development, the next version of Microsoft Office (codenamed Office 15) is also right on track with a Technical Preview having just been distributed to a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreements for testing. PJ Hough whom is CVP of Development for Microsoft's Office Division said, “At …

VTX3D, a leading manufacturer of AMD based graphics products, is proud to announce the release of the brand-new HD7900 GPU based model, VTX3D HD7950, with higher performance and new features. VTX3D HD7950 is designed to work perfectly with the latest PCI Express 3.0 bus architecture, delivering double bandwidth per lane …

ASRock have worked hard in the last year to compete with the big players such as ASUS and Gigabyte in the enthusiast sector.  Products like the 990FX Fatal1ty motherboard that we looked at a few months back show just how far they have come and how they can now compete …

Sony have just announced three new Cyber shot cameras for the mainstream audience. The DSC-WX50, DSC-WX70 and DSC-TX200V are all scheduled for release in March, a couple of months after the W610, W620 and W650 which were announced at CES a few weeks ago. The WX 50 and WX 70 …

Money from a State Settlement with Microsoft is being put to good use, although we aren't so sure that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will have the same view. A total of 1,400 iPad tablets are being purchased for students. These iPads are being paid for with part of a $3.4 …