We reported a few days ago that Samsung have high hopes for their Android based smartphone sales this year and it looks as if they may be expanding into the television market to tackle Sony and Apple, according to Bloomberg. Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung's TV business told reporters …

Mark Hurd ex Hewlett Packard CEO was defended immediately after his removal by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who called the board ‘idiots'. It seems Larry may be putting his money were his mouth is by contemplating him for a new job inside his company. Mark Hurd has been credited with …

On paper, Apple's new social media service Ping was a great idea, but unfortunately according to Sophos it has already been abused by people spamming the system and trying to offload phoney gadgets. The Ping network service integrates with iTunes 10 to let users follow their favourite artists and to …

The ongoing battle to buy 3Par has finally ended after a bidding war erupted between HP and Dell. HP have agreed to pay $2.35 billion and Dell didn't counter the final bid. This is a $33 per share cash offer and it has been agreed by boards of both HP …

UK game retail outlet GAME have announced the launch of a new service which has been designed to update all PC games – they are calling it Game Downloader. The program is still in a beta state however they are offering it for free through their official website over here. …

Intel have been spending a huge amount of money lately … $7.7 billion dollars on security company McAfee and recently $1.4 billion on Infineon. It is clear they are focusing on the mobile marketplace with these purchases, especially when the MeeGo mobile operating system partnership with Nokia is taken into …

A new version of dangerous rootkit Alureon is back – this time in the shape of a 64 bit edition. We are always dismayed to hear about new security issues, but this one looks to be particularly nasty as it has been designed to specifically target the ever expanding 64 …

Microsoft are planning to release a new Xbox 360 controller which features a transforming D-Pad in November. This has been due to feedback from a sizeable portion of the user base. The most noticeable changes are with the design – the new controller ditches the white appearance with multicoloured buttons, …

Technology advances at a staggering rate, and researchers at the University of Michigan have created a new display with nanometer thin sheets of metal that use slits to create pixels eight times smaller than those used on the iPhone 4. These Nanoresonators could possibly be the future for high quality …

Halo Reach on Xbox 360 has leaked a while ago and many people are downloading it from Bitorrent to play on their Xbox 360 consoles. Fudzilla have reported that their sources are telling them that some small retailers are selling the game earlier, breaking release date. Microsoft are still saying …

With Intel's recent $7.68 billion takeover of McAfee many wouldn't have been expecting the latest $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG's wireless unit. Intel's purchase of Infineon marks an expansion into the wireless device market, an area which has been a struggle for them in the past. This purchase …

The ever popular YouTube website, owned by Google are in talks with Hollywood movie studios to launch a worldwide pay per view video service at the end of 2010 to challenge Apple's dominance for online digital video distribution. Google have been hard pitching to studios on the appeal of streaming …

UK scientists have taken the first step toward helping to solve global food shortages by decoding the wheat genome, meaning they can take the DNA data to help improve annual yields. Dr Anthony Hall and Professor Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool and Dr. Gary Barker and Professor Keith …

HP are going to be removed from Dell's Christmas card list after outbidding them again with a $1.8 billion offer for computer storage company 3Par Inc. HP's latest bid works out 11 percent more than Dell's at $27 per share. 3Par had already accepted a $24.30 a share offer earlier …

AMD have just released Catalyst 10.8 with promises of some very nice performance increases. Performance highlights: Far Cry 2: Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. Performance increases 2-4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. ·Performance increases 3-8% …

KitGuru was impressed with the new single slot XFX HD5770 Crossfire bundle which we reviewed last week. This bundle is exclusive to highly regarded UK retailer DABS and word has just hit the KitGuru newsdesk that they are offering a free copy of Battlefield 2 Bad Company 2 for the …

Rumours are rife right now that Apple are planning an event in San Francisco on September 7th, two weeks ahead of the new prime time TV season. Apple normally hold an event in San Francisco around this time, but the date this year has yet to be nailed. We have …

KitGuru has been impressed with Kingston recently – their new HyperX products are producing some fine results in enthusiast systems across the globe. When we recently spoke with Bernd Dombrowsk their Sales Director, he impressed us with his aggressive and upfront style of answering questions. News has filtered in today …

Finland's University of Oulu have made an announcement today saying that they are working with Nokia and Intel to develop a join research center to create software for 3D and virtual reality interfaces to be used on mobile devices. The cutting edge software is going to be developed by 24 …

KitGuru has been reporting recently on the fact that Apple have been fighting a losing battle to stop their products from being hacked (jailbreaking as its commonly known to all you kewl g33ks). The courts in the US have actually ruled that it is fine to hack your own phone …

Macintosh executives have never been keen to promote their machines as gaming computers but they have been swallowing a bitter pill recently with Valve's release of the Steam client for OSx. Adoption has been phenomenal and this has had the positive effect of pushing their departments to update drivers. The …

XFX are without doubt one of the finest graphics card manufacturers on the planet and whenever they announced they were going to sell ATI graphics card, many analysts and journo's wondered how it would work. After all nVidia are well known to be rather tempremental and difficult to work with …

KitGuru spoke with sources in Taipei yesterday and we were told that LG Display, the company responsible for the screen in the iPad are finally catching up to the demand from Apple. Apple are reflecting this improvement on their store with wait times now down from ten days to five …

News has just reached KitGuru that Intel are purchasing McAfee for $7.68 billion. If that makes your eyes water, then rest assured it won't make much of a dent in Intel's coffers. This move is one of the most dramatic in Intel's history as they clearly want a shift into …