Software & Gaming

Firefox 4 was released last week and KitGuru reported on the early download figures during the day, which were already looking very healthy indeed. The new browser was downloaded 7.1 million times in 24 hours followed by a second day figure of 8.75 million. Firefox 3 in 2008 was downloaded …

Nintendo 3DS mania is hitting the UK this week and supermarket chain store Asda have announced that they are opening tonight at midnight to get Nintendo fans get their hands on the new portable game console. We find the statement quite amusing however as many of the stores are open …

Microsoft boasted that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours of release, however this pales in comparison to the figures that Mozilla have said that Firefox 4 has received in the same time period. Mozilla claim that Firefox 4 was downloaded 4.7 million times …

The final version of Firefox 4 has been released today and is being hailed by many as the best browser on the market today. Users can snag the upgraded software in 75 languages from www.firefox.com. There are versions for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The new browser was announced in …

MSI just emailed us this morning to inform our readers that a new version of Afterburner has just been released in beta format. It is version 2.20 Beta 1. This version has a number of tweaks in the code for improved stability and performance but it also fully supports the …

Corsair have built up a hell of a reputation over the last 15 years. Their success in the memory sector built a strong foundation for expansion into other territories – most recently power supplies and chassis design. Never a company to rest idle they have continued developing other products, such …

The security division of EMC, RSA have been hit with a sophisicated cyber attack which might end reducing the effectiveness of their SecurID authentication services. Executive Chairman Art Coviello sent a letter to RSA customers and documented that the company had recently “identified an extremely sophisticated cyber attack in progress …

KitGuru have been working with MSI and AMD to give away 50 copies of STALKER: Call Of Pripyat. To see how to win, read ahead to the bottom of this page. The game takes place soon after the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. After Strelok disables the Brain Scorcher, …

Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft's latest browser was launched on Monday evening and has received 2.3 million downloads in the first 24 hours. Microsoft are very happy with the interest in their new browser, particularly due to the high profile hardware acceleration features which includes offloading to the GPU. Early tests …

Some games have been postponed due to the horrific disaster in Japan. One of the key titles to get delayed is Motorstorm Apocalypse, the latest title in the high octane racer franchise from Sony. Sony are postponing the game because it features a city which is constantly under attack from …

Microsoft have made IE9 available for download yesterday, saying that IE9 relies on Windows more than any other browser on the market. Microsoft said that other browsers such as Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome are ‘handicapped', because they work on different operating systems. Internet Explorer 9 will use the power …

Google can leave the Pwn2Own hacking contest with their heads held high. Chrome, and the software stack for Android survived hack attacks from the most skilled talent in the world, while Internet Explorer 8 and Safari fell badly in the browser category. Apple's iPhone 4 and RIM's Blackberry Torch 9800 …

Hewlett Packard will be shipping WebOS on all their PC's starting next year. This will hurt Microsoft badly as their biggest hardware partner will be no longer exclusively tied into the Windows operating system. HP CEO Leo Apotheker has told Bloomberg News that HP ‘lost its soul' under former chief …

Mozilla have released the first release candidate of Firefox Version 4. This version is what the development team feel is a finished browser, says Johnathan Nightingale, director of Firefox development. The quality assurance team are still taking feedback from users across the globe in the next few weeks, but if …

Every year, a group of hackers meet up in Vancouver to pit their skills against the leading browsers in an event called ‘Pwn2Own'. The concept is straighforward – hack a browser, and you win whatever hardware it was running on. Generally, every year is the same – Internet Explorer and …

The enthusiast market has been getting some excellent new quality speaker designs in recent months, with Corsair and Antec both releasing some stellar performance speakers for the discerning audience. Logitech have just released a THX Certified speakers with a claimed 500 watts (RMS) output level. The Z906 speakers are said …

Electronic Arts Frank Gibeau has been rather outspoken about the PC being the future of the company and that the platform may possibly be the biggest market for EA over the coming years. He told Gamasutra that ‘The use base is gigantic, PC retail may be a big problem, but …

Google Chrome is updated on a regular basis, and we have to say that the latest beta version was one of the best browsers we have had the pleasure of using in recent months. This has recently been pushed to ‘final stable' code. With a 66 percent improvement in JavaScript …

Adobe released a new beta for Flash Player – V 10.3, which offers the end user greater control over the software's privacy and storage options. People can now clear local storage, known as Flash Cookies on version of Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome. These Cookies can obviously come in …

Dragon Age 2 is a hotly awaited game, but it looks as if PC users will have to download a seperate patch if they want to play the game with super high resolution textures. Fernando Melo, the Senior Producer posted on the official forums with the information. As expected, this …

nVidia are as excited as the gaming public about the upcoming release of Crysis 2. While the game leaked online weeks ago in an unfinished beta state, the final version looks to be playable on a variety of hardware, without demanding a Bill Gates sized wallet. According to Nvidia the …

The recent high profile denial of service attack (DDoS) that hit the WordPress.com blog publishing platform last week has now been shown to have originated from China, according to the sites founder. DDoS attacks are particularly nasty, as they simultaneously attack a web site with data so it becomes overwhelmed. …

THQ are facing an environmental backlash when a publicity stunt for a new warfare based video game released thousands of balloons carrying advertisements into the San Francisco bay. Rod Fujita, a senior oceans scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund told the San Francisco Chronicle “When I looked out the window …

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has confirmed that Mario will be hitting the upcoming 3DS console in glorious 3D. While everyone knew this would happen, this is the first official statement that Nintendo have released, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco yesterday. The good news is that the Nintendo …

Last month KitGuru reported that LG were trying to ban the Playstation 3 from the USA. It appears, based on latest reports that shipments of the black shiny console will be running dry as custom officials are ordered to seize European shipments also. This court ordered ban on imports was …

KitGuru reported on some rather worrying Gmail issues this week and Google have finally revealed what caused the panic on Monday. Google originally said that only 0.29 percent of their user base was affected by the mysterious ‘disappearing' email issue, but Google have since revised their figures to only 0.02 …

Mozilla have said that they are copying the Google strategy of pushing regular updates of its Firefox browser whenever new features are ready, rather than waiting for predefined update schedules. Jay Sullivan, the VP of product for the company spoke to PC Pro and said “What we want to do …

Yesterday we reported on a rather serious sounding issue which affected some gmail users. Google said this was due to a bug in the software, although not as many people as first expected were affected. Approximately only 0.02 percent of all Gmail users experienced the issue which wiped all their …

Some users have woken up today to find that all their Gmail emails have been wiped. So far only 0.8% of the user base has been affected, however that is little consolation to those who have lost thousands of emails. Users have already been running to the Google Help Forums …

Facebook have decided to shut down Breakup Notifier, a popular relationship tracker which is used to monitor the relationship status of chosen friends. The application sent users an email notification whenever one of their friends changed relationship status, meaning that interested parties could make advances whenever someone they liked was …