Barack Obama might have been pretty non-committal in his response to the Edward Snowden leaks about NSA and GCHQ spying on native and international citizens, but David Cameron has shrugged them off, suggesting that they shouldn't be a surprise to everyone, since TV detective shows are always using potentially illegal spying …

This is the question Twitter is hoping you'll answer “yes,” to in the coming months, as it plans to try and monetise its service to a much greater extent, by setting up an e-commerce platform within the Twitter experience, giving you the option to buy products talked about through tweets. …

Today we are going to take a look at the latest case in Corsair’s Obsidian line up, the 250D. This appears to have been designed specifically for those who are looking to build a compact gaming system – therefore putting it in direct competition with the Bitfenix Prodigy. The Bitfenix …

Despite its latest EA published racing title Need for Speed: Rivals being pretty well received by critics and the public, that doesn't mean jobs at British developer Ghost Games are safe. Several people have been laid off and others asked if they want to move over to a new project …

If there was any question about how “South Park,” the upcoming South Park: The Stick of Truth game is, it's been answered by the latest gameplay videos. Not only are simple things like character movement dead on, but we even get a new insight into some old, pooey friends. These …

Imagine a world where the overly friendly young chaps and chap-esses in an Apple store didn't actually have a clue what they were talking about, regularly make up technology to describe what your looking at and were happy to accept bribes. KitGuru checks out secret cam footage of this alternative reality.

Sony Corp. this week acquired a semiconductor manufacturing facility from Renesas Electronics which, among other things, makes Nintendo “Latte” graphics processing unit with 32MB eDRAM cache that is used inside Nintendo Wii U game console. While there are long-term supply agreements in place, over time Nintendo may lose the supply …

Top notebook PC manufacturers have reduced their 2014 shipment estimates as the market faces some challenges on both the supply and demand fronts. It is not a secret that media and business tablets are cannibalizing sales of traditional notebooks. Meanwhile, Intel Corp. delayed shipments of its low-power Core i-series “Broadwell” …

Microsoft continues to go back from its modern Metro user interface to the good-old classic in a bid to lure customers to its latest operating system. Many traditional Windows users got annoyed with the boot up process of Windows 8 since it led them not to the familiar desktop, but …

Rumours about possible Xbox One with lowered price-tag emerged well before the launch of the game console itself. Now, less than three months after the console hit the market, they returned. According to unofficial information, Microsoft Corp. is working on a version of Xbox One that would match the price …

The term PC or Personal Computer covers a broad spectrum of systems – with everything from hand built from the ground up, through to off the shelf systems where everything is done for you.  KitGuru casts an eye over YOYOTech's latest range of offers. Just how lazy are we? We're …

Lenovo Group became the world’s largest maker of personal computer by starting with its strong base in China, the world’s fastest growing market, and by acquiring PC business from IBM Corp. in 2004 and a number of other smaller PC makers later on. This week Lenovo announced plans to take …

NeoGAF user ‘Ntkrnl' turned the forum in to a dumping ground for Xbox One rumours last night claiming to have inside information on release dates, upcoming games and even a cheaper but disc less Xbox One console. To make matters interesting, there might be some credit to a few of …

While Google's fourth quarter earnings fell just short of analyst expectations on Thursday, the firm did manage to post strong Nexus 5, Chromecast and Google Play sales. Wall Street expected Google to generate $16.75 billion in revenue,  and while it did manage to surpass that, generating $16.86 billion, share prices …

One of the most distasteful elements of the copyright lobbyist vs piracy conflict over the past few years, has been the former group targeting individual file sharers with enormous lawsuits that try to force them into bankruptcy by demanding huge payouts per movie uploaded/downloaded. These got even worse when companies …

AMD partner Sapphire has just announced a new member of its mini-PC family, the metal-encased EDGE DS8. Designed with business professionals in mind, specifically those in the AV sector, the DS8 is specced similarly to the previously released VS8, but packs an SSD and new housing that should improve thermal …

One of the most hotly anticipated pieces of gaming tech coming out this year (if you're an AMD user) is the Mantle API, which promises to give massive performance gains to CPU  bottlenecked games, as well as opening up titles for big jumps in visual fidelity, especially when it comes …

Zynga, the Facebook game maker with an ex-CEO that doesn't really like contemporary gaming, and a current one that said if your internet sucks, get an Xbox 360, has announced the acquisition of another developer, taking on all of its staff and facilities. This time around its CSR Racing developer …

The Oculus Rift has a lot to live up to when it's commercially released later this year (most likely) and one of the things some people are quite excited about, is the potential for large scale simulators, using make-shift cockpits, or hydraulic chairs to offer an experience you just can't …

Today we are going to look at one of the latest cases from Aerocool – the Vs-92.  This particular model features in Aerocool's PGS (Performance Gaming System) range, and has been designed for those gamers who are looking to build a well-featured system, on a budget. We look forward to …

Nintendo on Thursday made a number of important announcements regarding the company’s future. The legendary firm will continue to develop its own hardware platforms and will ensure that in the future they will be more competitive than the current generation. While the firm will not make its games available on …

Microsoft Corp.’s board of directors is preparing to appoint Satya Nadella on the position of the chief executive officer of the company, according to a news-agency report on Thursday. In addition, the company plans to replace chairman of the board, Bill Gates, with an independent director. The candidate to succeed …

With the release of new-generation consoles, interest towards the previous-generation systems drops rapidly among core gamers. Nonetheless, platform owners continue to sell outdated systems for some time after that. An executive from a leading game publisher believes that the current-gen PS3 and Xbox 360 will stay on the market for …

Foxconn Group, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, is set to take over Socle Technology, a developer of system-on-chip solutions. The buyout will bring additional capabilities to the holding also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry and will help it to gain more customers and diversify its business. Socle …

Tesco Mobile has announced today that the company won't be charging its customers a premium for using the 4G network, which is based of off O2's infrastructure. Tesco used to charge customers £2.50 premium but decided to drop the charge in order to compete with the network, Three, which will …

There's a wide range of iPad cases, stands and accessories out there, it's its own multi-million pound industry, despite being just something to augment the main product. But your case, stand, whatever, has nothing on the iTrans4mer, a case, stand, speaker system and wall mount all in-one. How does it …

The Mantle patch for Battlefield 4 has finally arrived along with AMD's accompanying beta driver, in addition to the news, DICE has gone ahead and posted some performance numbers along with details of what system configuration the team was using in order to give users an idea of what they …

I've talked about gaming with KitGuru writers and reviewers before and I don't know whether you're all too shy, or we're just too uber-gamer for you to contemplate facing online, but the response has been lukewarm at best. Of course it could have been because the last game I tried …

HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has quietly started to sell its high-capacity Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD) with 6TB of storage space to end-users. Previously, such drives were available only to enterprise customers as well as storage device manufacturers. Unfortunately, the price of the helium-filled HDD …

If you're a maker of applications with in-app purchases, you have the next 60 days to implement a laundry list of changes that are designed to offer the consumer more information about what they're spending their money on and to make it harder for children to ‘accidentally' run up thousands …