China, in its usual heavy handed manner has blocked all links to the WikiLeaks websites after potentially embarassing claims were made in leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. People in China who tried to access either wikeleaks.org or cablegate.wikeleaks.org were delivered a page saying that the connection had been reset. This is …
Read More »Microsoft Kinect sells over 2.5 million units
Some analysts said that Microsoft's Kinetic might not sell that well in the run up to Christmas, but clearly they have been proved wrong. Latest figures after Black Friday sales in America show that the sensor has sold over 2.5 million units, already. 2.5 million units sold in such a …
Read More »Does Dabs deal indicate 6 core price move from AMD?
Whenever a deal comes together, you can look at the component parts and make some kind of guess as to how the reduction was made possible. KitGuru gets tons of emailed offers every day, but this one grabbed our attention. Here's why. The deal itself is for a CPU with …
Read More »Facebook to trademark ‘Face’
It may seem incredible, but it appears that Facebook have been given the go-ahead to trademark the word ‘Face'. The U.S. Patient and Trademark Office have issued an allowance that says that the company is entitled to a trademark on ‘Face' as it applies to the name FaceBook. To get …
Read More »nVidia competition to win Asus 3D screen and more
It's nice when the multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporations that we have all (at some point) helped fund, turn around and do neat little competitions to win cool stuff. nVidia has today stepped up to that plate. Here's the detail you need to enter. The GeForce community site is in its …
Read More »Follow your crap on Google, for a good cause
When scientists embark on multi-billion dollar projects to launch satellites, map the earth and set up the most advanced tracking & computational centres ever seen, they were probably in Star Trek mode. Certain that they were adding to the sum of human knowledge and helping NASA to reach for the …
Read More »KitGuru passes 1,000 articles – Thanks for your support!
Well. There it is. Official. KitGuru has just stormed past the 1,000 articles mark. We'd just like to take a quick step back from beginning work on the next 1,000 articles to stop and thank you, our readers, for all of your support since this site launched in back in …
Read More »Channel awards event includes surprise for AMD’s Grasby
Every year, the UK channel dons penguin suites and silk wraps, before heading for Battersea Park and the awesomely profitable CRN awards ceremony. “Why do the elite head for a park?”, you might wonder. Fear not, our spies were on hand to lift the hemline and give you a little …
Read More »A.C. Ryan mega €15,000 competition
We received this press release from A.C. Ryan this morning: This is the question you will hear people asking across the globe! The answer, which is now sending Twitter aflutter: I DO #PLAYON @ ACRyan. This week, AC Ryan has launched our huge “DO YOU PLAYON!?” Tweet & Win advertising …
Read More »Dell post strong earnings, jump 10 percent
Dell had a good day yesterday, they jumped 10 percent in trading after posting earnings which beat analyst's predictions. Bloomberg have reported that Profit excluding certain items was 45 cents a share in the fiscal third quarter, Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said in a statement yesterday. That topped the 32-cent …
Read More »Virgin Media attack broadband speed lies in UK
Virgin Media have started to attack other ISPs in the UK claiming that many ISP's are lying about their actual speeds. The campaign is being held at http://www.stopthebroadbandcon.org/ and includes a personal plea from media darling Richard Branson. He says “If you regularly use the web, I would ask you …
Read More »ARM speak with Google to replace Intel
Industry insiders have confirmed with KitGuru that ARM have been speaking with Google in the attempt to get the search engine giant to replace the processors in their television products. Intel currently supply stocks of their ATOM processor to Google and it is a fairly lucrative source of revenue for …
Read More »Vote for your CEO of the Year
CEO's are a rich bunch of people, often earning more in a week than many of us will see in a lifetime. They are however key figures in many of our favourite companies and drive new developments and sales across the globe. Their leadership is key to the success of …
Read More »China hijacks web traffic, fears of cyberweapon emerge
Disturbing news is circulating that a state owned Chinese telecommunications firm rerouted around 15percent of all web traffic through its own servers, during a limited period on April 8. This report, also documented by news agencies in the UK such as The Telegraph has raised fresh concerns that sensitive information …
Read More »ASUS Pride- new interactive competition
Asus have a new and unusual competition starting today, called ASUS – PRIDE. This is the chance to submit your motherboard stories to ASUS and share them with the world. ASUS want to hear how you have used their technology in the past to ‘do innovative and amazing things'. You …
Read More »AMD support the MeeGo OS project
AMD said yesterday that they are signing up to the open source MeeGo Linux project and that they are going to contribute ‘engineering resources' to ensure that their forthcoming APUs operate under the OS. AMD have made this announcement at the MeeGo conference in Dublin, Ireland. Their main rival, Intel …
Read More »Microsoft sell 100,000 Kinect per day
Microsoft doomsayers will be very unhappy to read the latest statistics in from the company surrounding the release of the Kinect device for the Xbox 360. They claim to be selling 100,000 units every day since release. Microsoft claim that the 100,000 daily sales are set to increase as it …
Read More »China officially have worlds fastest supercomputer
We reported weeks ago that it looked as if China were going to overtake the US for the world's fastest computer title, and we were right. The Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin has achieved a performance level of 2.57 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second). …
Read More »Asus P8P67 and Maximus IV Extreme Motherboard Preview
KitGuru spent a day in London learning about Asus’ next range of motherboards which are based on the next generation Intel platform. There are a number of new features that excite us and we look forward to testing the motherboards fully when they’re released. Asus had four motherboards on show …
Read More »Multiplay i41 Opening Ceremony
KitGuru is over at Multiplay i41 to cover one of the biggest gaming events in the UK ! Massive crowds have gathered at Newbury Racecourse this weekend for the LANtastic Multiplay i41 event. Outside, tents have been pitched deep into the turf as strong winds threaten to repeat last year's …
Read More »Database issues and some downtime
After receiving many emails I wanted to apologise if anyone has been experiencing issues today and yesterday evening. We performed what we thought was a routine backup yesterday and encountered some problems. At first we thought Faith, our drunken news hound had spilt her vodka over the server. The site …
Read More »Multiplay i41 gaming event kicks off in Newbury
INSOMNIA (i-Series) events are the biggest LAN gaming competitions in this part of the world and the next one kicks-off on Friday 12th November, at Newbury Racecourse, for 4 days. KitGuru will be there to investigate. Slowly, but surely, LAN gaming continues to grow. Everyone starts playing against the computer. …
Read More »Microsoft treat Apple mac users like second class citizens
Microsoft have issued patches for all versions of Office on Windows, including XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010 and Office for Mac 2011. They have not however delivered the security patches for Office for Mac 2004 and Office for Mac 2008. This has caused a huge uproar among the Macintosh community …
Read More »Amazon under fire for pedophilia literature
A book called “The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct” has caused customer outrage with threats to ban the online retailer unless it pulled the title. The book was no longer available when we last looked, and over 2,000 users commented on the title. Many …
Read More »Microsoft sue Motorola: Xbox royalties
Another week and yet another court case. This time Microsoft are suing Motorola for unreasonable levels of royalties for technology the Redmond OS giant uses in the Xbox game console. Microsoft have alleged that Motorola have breached commitments made to standards organisations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …
Read More »Tim Smalley says goodbye to the IT industry
Like every industry, the world of technology includes some real giants. Standing nearly 7 feet tall*, Tim Smalley is just such a man and we've been sent a pic of the Expert Reviews editor saying goodbye to Bit-Tech, the site he helped found many moons ago. Joking aside, Tim is …
Read More »Google hand out free inflight Wi-Fi to travelers
Google said yesterday that it was working with three airlines to give holiday travelers free in flight wifi. GoGo's broadband service is normally a strictly pay only option at $11 for 24 hours, but Google are giving it away free with domestic flights in Delta, Virgin America and AirTran. This …
Read More »Steve Ballmer selling $2 billion in Microsoft stock
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to sell $2 billion in stock to ‘diversify his holdings' and to help with tax planning before the end of the year. Either that or he just spotted a tropical island, fancy new cruiseliner and beach mansion for those cold winter months. Ballmer has held …
Read More »Buy your own ‘Black Ops’ Jeep – limited edition
Call Of Duty Black Ops is already getting much hype even though it has yet to be play tested by any of the leading gaming review sites. Chrysler Group LLC have a starring role in the videogame and to celebrate are releasing a 2001 Jeep Wrangler Call Of Duty: Black …
Read More »Smartphone ownership rises to 58.7 million in USA
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 …
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