Samsung Electronics are riding high in the USA as they maintain their market share growth in the US mobile phone sector. Research in Motion, famous for the Blackberry handsets are losing marketshare in the smartphone operating system market. For the three months which ended in September, Samsung hold their position …

If the authorities were to be believed, then downloading from Bitorrent or Newsgroups is the root of all evil, not only can downloading illegal warez potentially inflict viruses upon your system but it can also cause genital warts and ruin your chances of ever getting laid. Kids in bedrooms across …

Archos have made some great products in the last five years and I owned several of their portable players many eons ago, which I always loved. Their latest internet tablet with Android 2.2 (Froyo) is now available in the shops. The Archos 43 uses a Cortex A8 processor. The Archos …

The HD6850 has proved popular with AMD's partners, with many releasing custom cooled solutions with overclocked settings, out of the box. Powercolor are the latest to offer an overclocked card with a custom designed cooler which looks to be tickling the tastebuds of the discerning enthusiast user. The Powercolor PCS+ …

California is defending its ban on selling ultra violent video games to minors before the Supreme court today, but we ask ourselves, do violent games really affect kids or young adults? California will ask the justice department to exempt a type of violent content from the First Amendment's protection of …

nVidia partner Point Of View have detailed specifications of the new 10.1 tablet they are releasing featuring nVidia Tegra. The Point Of View Mobii tablet features a capacitive multi touch screen (1024×600) with 512mb of system memory and 512mb of NAND flash memory with support for up to 32GB via …

Love them or loate them, it is hard to escape social networking in the news today. Latest information reaching KitGuru details that Twitter now have over 175 million users, a growth of 30 million people since August, or 15 million users a month. Not many networks could claim a growth …

pcinlife.com have published a few pictures of what they claim is the upcoming GTX 580 card from nVidia. Specifications have not been confirmed yet, although there is much rumour and speculation. The latest reports claim that it is 20 percent faster than the current GTX480 which means it should be …

AMD have spoken about the upcoming Flex FP floating point unit which is due to be incorporated into the Bulldozer Processor line up in servers and workstations next year. John Fruehe, AMD's director of product marketing said in his blog that the new technology delivers tremendous floating-point capabilities for technical …

The USA have just lost the world's fastest supercomputer title to China, with their Tianhe-1A taking over the top slot. The Tianhe-1A has 1.4 times the power of the closest rival according to Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains the offical supercomputer rankings. Although this list …

The day is finally here – Microsoft have made SP1 Release Candidate for Windows 7 freely available for download. This is the final beta download and according to the Microsoft schedule, SP1 will be ready and available for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 in the first quarter of …

AMD have released a new driver hotfix which features some performance improvements and bug fixes as well as support for their new Morphological Anti Aliasing feature. AMD Catalyst 10.10c Hotfix Features: OpenGL 4.1 beta support Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature Dead Rising 2 – Crossfire profile (Resolves negative …

MSI release some great video cards and we have reviewed many in the past on KitGuru. They have announced two new boards, their reference clocked/cooled HD6870 and a new custom cooled HD6850. While many partners have already released custom cooled HD6850's we are waiting on the first batch of custom …

Apple have released the new Macbook Air, a striking new wedge design which features an ULV Intel processor. The only thing, this looks to be extremely similar to the Sony Vaio X505 released six years ago, in 2004. Steve Jobs said that the new MacBook Air is ‘the future of …

It would be hard to miss the launch today of the AMD HD6850 and HD6870. You will probably have already read our reviews of several of the partner cards. If you haven't then check out the front page of KitGuru. Scan have been working with XFX on competitive pricing for …

If someone offered you a domain name for $13 million you are likely to either laugh, or faint. But one of the nets most sought after names has just sold at auction for $13 million (£8.2 million). The domain name went on sale in July after the former owner went …

With the hotly awaited release of Windows Phone 7, the critics were clearly expecting more. Many have said already that Microsoft have a long way to go to catch up with Apples iPhone and Google's Android. While it is still early days, this hasn't been the ideal launch for Microsoft. …

Hewlett Packward has been talking about the benefits of webOS 2.0, saying that it would offer improved multitasking by ‘stacking' similar applications into logical groups for easier, faster switching. It will also support Adobe Flash ensuring that pages with embedded flash content can be viewed by their customers. The new …

You might not know the name, but Rob Dickins used to run Warner Brothers music in the UK and he is also a former chairman of the BPI. In a recent music conference in Manchester he told the assembled crowd that he believes downloaded music albums should cost £1 or …

nVidia launched the GT440 today with not much of a fanfare. The card is a DX11 part and is OEM only, which means it is going to appear in prebuilt systems in the run up to Christmas. The GT440 is about as exciting as the GT430 (yawns) and features 144 …

Iomega have just announced a new series of USB 3.0 external Solid State Drives, ranging in size from 64gb to 256GB. These new drives are based around an external enclosure offering superfast USB 3.0 speeds while remaining compatible with the older USB 2.0 interface. USB 3.0 is clearly the way …

The second biggest U.S. mobile phone carrier AT&T are going to start pushing the Apple iPad to its business customers. This means Apple will have a healthy viable option outside the consumer market. KitGuru said last month that we felt that Research In Motion's (RIM) decision to launch their new …

AMD Chief Executive Dirk Meyer has been measuring the impact that Apple's iPad has had on netbooks and notebook sales. His final conclusion was that the tablet has been killing both. AMD are also waiting on more market development before committing R&D resources to developing tablet processors. Meyer said in …

Intel have posted a record quarter, with a staggering $11.4 billion revenue. This is the first time in their history that they have broken the $11 billion revenue barrier and $3 billion of this is net income. Intel chief Paul Otellini said that “these results were driven by solid demand …

Yesterday Microsoft issues patches for 49 security holes in Internet Explorer, Windows and other software. This is the largest number of bugs to be squashed in a single Tuesday release. The 49 fixes were classed as critical, one of the highest security ratings that generally indicates potential ‘rogue takeover' issues. …

Today we noticed that Hexus have translated some information from chinese website xfastest.com. They have shown some benchmark figures from the upcoming HD6850 and HD6870. Both of these cards have already been pictured and leaked on various Far East sites (shame on you guys!), but this is the first benchmark …

Vince “k|ngp|n” Lucido and EVGA took over the top spot in the 3DMark Hall of Fame on 10/11/2010 with a Performance score of over 70,000 and still climbing. This score was achieved on an EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard, with 4x EVGA GTX 480’s and an EVGA Classified SR-2 1200w Power …

After seeing this post by our good buddy Fudo on Fudzilla we decided to make a few calls ourselves. XFX spoke to KitGuru this morning and have confirmed that they are focusing completely on AMD graphics cards from this point onwards. This will not come as a shock to many …

In the run up to any major launch we always have ‘leaks' on the net and insider info making their way into the public domain. The first picture of what appears to be AMD's HD6870 has just leaked on the net. This image was posted on Chinese ‘pokemon looking' tech …

As KitGuru has reported in the past, while the iPad is a top seller, the LCD technology doesn't make it the best option for reading books, a factor that has helped the Amazon Kindle 3 sell so well in recent months. This may all change as researchers have managed to …