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During a recent visit to a test facility, KitGuru undercover agents managed to gain entry to a very unusual meeting. It was at Thermaltake's brand new Taipei office block and the meeting was to find the ladies who would be running the all important booth at Computex 2011 in June. …

Hewlett Packard have been undergoing some radical changes behind the scenes with over a third of their board of directors replaced under new chief executive Leo Apotheker and chairman Ray Lane. They are bringing in five new directors, including former ebay chief executive Meg Whitman. Mark Hurd, the former CEO …

KitGuru reported yesterday that Steve Jobs has taken a leave of absense, so he can deal with health issues that have been causing him concern now for many months. The big question we need to ask however is should he finally step down and hand over the company to Tim …

In the mainstream enthusiast sector, IBM aren't often brought up in conversation. Although with the recent news of them backing ARM technology, this might change. Latest financial reports however show that in the professional sector they racked up $100bn of sales in 2010. IBM mainframe sales in 2010 were the …

Having found out that Miodrag Relic moved from EVGA to Asus and Iain Bristow from Asus to AMD, we had spent a while looking for a 3rd move to put this hat-trick of new year transfers together. We've found it, but it isn't the one we needed to complete the …

As AMD begins a huge shake up of its company organisation, it looks like top personnel are being brought in at various levels to bolster the company, ready for a huge assault on the market in 2011. KitGuru has just learned of a significant movement in the local market, read …

Today KitGuru can exclusively reveal that, in a stunning move, EVGA has lost its European Marketing Manager to arch rival Asus. Given how successful EVGA has been over the previous 12 months, this is a real surprise. KitGuru analyses the situation to see what it means. Toward the end of …

A 23 year old California man admitted he used personal information from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts to download nude and seminude photos and videos sent from those accounts. He would then forward these to all of the women's contacts. Dozens of women in the US and England …

Intel, the processor giant has posted their best earnings ever in 2010 with a net profit of $11.7 billion for the year on revenue of $43.6 billion, a 167 percent increase from the profit posted in 2009. “2010 was the best year in Intel's history,” Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini …

Adobe have finally admitted in a blog post that there is a ‘weakness' in the implementation of Flash cookies, or as Adobe call them ‘local shared objects (LSOs). This issue allowed other websites, not Adobe, to track user behaviour, even after a user has cleared the traditional web cookie. This …

Google, owner of YouTube has announced statistics which show that mobile viewers tripled by headcount in 2010. Today, they are receiving over 200 million video views a day from mobile devices, with the highest percentage from smartphones. This is a healthy indication of just how many people are using smartphone …

Using KitGuru's ring of global spy satellites, we have managed to piece together the job description for Dirk Meyer's replacement as CEO. It does not really look like a normal job description, but we're certain that this the basis of AMD's search for an ideal candidate. KitGuru prepares to reveal …

Julian Assange, the controversial founder of Wikileaks has been accused of treason by a Florida resident who is seeking damages for ‘distress' caused by the site's revelations about the US government. The unhappy chap, otherwise known as David Pitchford, is a trailer park resident in Florida and he names Assange …

One of the most hotly awaited pieces of mobile hardware is coming to the UK on March 25th. The asking price is still pretty much guess work, but some retailers are asking for up to £300. WHSmith, Woolworths have targeted the price to be £300, but they are saying that …

Microsoft are appealing to the US Patent and Trademark Office to get the term ‘App Store' from the clutches of Apple. Apple applied for this trademark in 2008, just before it opened the iPhone Application Store and when online software delivery was only starting to take off. Microsoft seemingly want …

OCZ has shocked the industry by announcing that they are leaving the RAM market behind to concentrate on the SSD sector, which is the source of much profit for the company. OCZ only make 22 percent of their overall profits from memory in the third financial quarter. Ryan Petersen, CEO …

MySpace, the once popular social networking site is suffering from big advertising losses due to a declining user base. The latest news is that they are paying off 500 people in a restructuring change. Yahoo are already showing an interest in the business plan. Robert Murdoch, the chief honcho of …

nVidia and Intel have announced a six year cross licensing deal worth $1.5BN which resolves a long term patent dispute between the two companies. This could mean a potential integration of Nvidia GPUs with Intel's processors. The agreement announced earlier this week means that Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion …

In a shocking revelation coming at the end of the most successful CES in more than a decade, KitGuru has learned that Dirk Meyer will not be in charge of AMD for 2011. Likely to be announced in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times over the next 72 hours, …

Facebook growth is staggering in recent months. Latest reports from Goldman Sachs show that they raked in $1.2 billion across the first nine months of 2010. Facebooks net income in the first nine months of 2010 peaked at $355 million and Goldman values the company now at $50 billion and …

If you have been eyeing the Kinetic for the Xbox 360, but aren't willing to move to a console platform, then ASUS might just have the product you want in 2011. Their Kinetic clone will be called the WAVI Xtion and they are planning to showcase it at the CES …

Pictures claiming to be the upcoming 3DS handheld console from Nintendo have been circulating on the internet today. The images, which first appeared on a gaming forum, show the 3DS in a black shell. The latest images show the start, home and select buttons level with the plastic under the …

Many gamers are waiting anxiously for the new Nintendo 3DS, the 3D portable gaming device which is set to take the portable gaming market by storm. Strangely, Nintendo have issued a warning that the device should not be used by children under 6 when in full 3D gaming mode. Nintendo …

Google do many things right. They still have the most comprehensive online search engine and their Android operating system is taking the world by storm. But for every success story there has to be a product sitting in the shadows, failing to excite customers. Google TV was expected to be …

The Microsoft Kinect device for the Xbox 360 has been a surprise success story, selling millions of units since it was released. As with many popular pieces of hardware, the modding community are out in full force finding weird and wacky uses for the motion sensing device. Many owners found …

Yes, It is the time of year for a little bit of a wind down. When we relax with friends and family, eat far too much, have one drink (or more) too many and play with new tech gadgets. As I have a cool bottle of champagne open right now what better …

Logitech have instructed Gigabyte Technology to stop shipping Revue set top boxes from December 2010 to January 2011 while it waits for Google to complete software updates or release a new version of the Google TV software package. Market analysts had predicted that shipments of the Revue STB's would exceed …

Public hero and driver guru Terry Makedon, known to everyone as ‘Catalyst Maker' will be moving jobs within AMD. He wanted to let our readers know of his plans and he is excited about what lies ahead in 2011. I had a chat with him earlier today. He told us …

Apple have released iAd Producer, a new software package to design interative, media rich adverts using web standards for distribution through its iAd network within iOS applications. This is a direct attack on Adobe's Flash developer tools, todays industry standard suite for the same thing. Apple's new HTML5 development package …

3DMark 11 has been released now for a week, and already Futuremark say they have received around 200,000 result submissions from overclockers and enthusiasts across the globe. They have found a few issues that they didn't catch during their own testing phase and they have just released an update to …