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From nowhere, to absolute must have product, to ‘completely free' in the space of 18 months? Will that really be the fate of the tablet PC? Is mega-retailer Amazon, ready to do something Amazing?  KitGuru tries to read the after images on our Kindle. While Samsung, Motorola and others are …

Sales have dropped almost 20% at Compal, the world's second biggest contract manufacturer of laptops. This is a massive slump – big enough for KitGuru to want to dig a little deeper to see what's going on in the Neihu-based company. If you or any of your friends have ever …

OK – that's not exactly what's happened, but with the UK's House of Lords choosing tablets and rejecting the introduction of netbooks and notebooks, it seems that Parliament will become iPad central. KitGuru considers the situation. Prime Minister's question time has a certain cut and thrust, even though both sides …

Well, that's certainly true in the United States of the Americas. Elsewhere in the world, we may need to wait a little longer. The eagerly awaited product is finally here, so KitGuru decided to look at the hype a little. When Steve Jobs got off his hospital bed at the …

Many companies are struggling to sell their tablet devices and people are queuing in the pouring rain to be first to get their hands on the iPad 2. It just proves how powerful the Apple marketing gurus really are. One fellow, who is first in line is trying to sell …

KitGuru has looked at a number of impressive gaming laptops over the past few months including the bespoke Cryo Mercia.  Like Cryo, Kobalt Computers is a relatively small operation who cater for the enthusiast end of the market.  Their laptop range starts at £859 inc. VAT with the budget friendly …

Industry experts are saying that Apple could sell 600,000 iPad 2's during the launch weekend, a figure which is twice the amount of the original units sold at launch. Analyst Brian Marshall of Gleacher and Company predicts that Apple will sell more than half a million units over the launch …

An Apple iPhone prototype has leaked from Foxconn and is available on the Chinese ‘grey market'. What is particularly interesting however is the fact that it has 64 gigabytes of storage and may be a sign of things to come with the iPhone 5. The prototype is marked with a …

Samsung have released a new image which hints at the new size for the Galaxy Tab. The image says ‘Whats your Tab life?' with 78910 after it. A few people are assuming that this relates to the sizes, 7 inch, 8.9 inch and 10 inch. This would confirm previous reports …

Renowned Wall Street analyst JP Morgan says that the upcoming release of the iPad2 might burst a bubble for competitors who are hoping to make a dent in the tablet market. Mark Moskowitz of J.P. Morgan Research warned investors that the build plans for tablet shipments from Apple's rivals may …

Many analysts wondered why Nokia would refuse a partnership with Google, to form an alliance with floundering mobile maker Microsoft. Bloomberg Businessweek have released information which says that Microsoft are handing over $1 billion to Nokia. The Microsoft and Nokia deal has received a lot of negative press, especially as …

Inside sources have said that Apple stores will be eliminating some stock soon to make way for more, improved customer support. The sources told KitGuru that Apple Stores may be losing some of the game titles and even some peripherals from the layout soon, their plan is to make the …

ComScore have released their latest figures for the mobile OS market share, detailing the three months up to January 2011. Google's Android shows huge growth, rising 7.7 percent to take the top spot from the BlackBerry operating system. The Blackberry OS has fallen by 5.4% which will be worrying news …

Chinese sources are indicating that Apple may change the rear of the iPhone 5 to incorporate an aluminum design. This was used for the first iPhone, rather than the glass materials used on more recent models. It appears that Apple have been listening to consumers as people have been complaining …

Apple are showing that their ultra portable laptop, the MacBook Air has been well received from the public. In Q4 2010 they shipped 1.1 million Air laptops, making this new breed of ultra thin laptops one of the companies most successful Mac product launches ever. Concord Securities analyst Ming Chi …

For the fourth year in a row, Apple have topped the Fortune ‘World's most admired company list'. Apple can seemingly do no wrong with the public, even after high profile issues, such as the antenna problem on the iPhone 4. With enigmatic CEO Steve Jobs on indefinite leave due to …

Research In Motion are planning to release a cross platform version of BlackBerry Messenger for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. RIM are aiming to get the software out on Android first, followed up shortly afterwards with a release on iOS. We hear rumours that they aren't yet sure whether …

Anyone who reads KitGuru regularly will have been aware months ago that Apple were releasing the iPad2 early this year. Well unfortunately some of the public haven't been aware and have been buying the iPad, only to find out that their shiny new device will be replaced in a few …

Microsoft have re-released the update for Windows Phone 7, after an initial problem which caused some phones to brick. The update has fixed a plethora of back end issues and was originally released last month. It all seemed to be fine until reports started filtering in that Samsung phones were …

With all the misleading news circulating about the iPad2, we thought it would be good to get all the update specifications out to our readers. The new iPad2 gets a signicant processing upgrade with the new dual core A5 Soc which Apple are claiming delivers twice the performance of the …

In the latest of our tablet news, it looks as if Research In Motion (RIM) are arming up to join the market attack with the release of their new Playbook set for April. KitGuru has heard well sourced rumours in the Far East that the date looks to be between …

Motorola have been facing some negative commentary from the press due to the price of their Xoom tablet. Research into the matter shows that the Xoom is actually a higher cost to make than the iPad, due to the performance internals. IHS iSuppli (Ed: thats a lot of i's) have …

KitGuru reported yesterday that Google had to kill 21 applications from their online market due to malware infections. Unfortunately the situation appears to be worse than first expected with a total of 50 applications now being highlighted as infected. Google have also yet to trigger an automatic deinstall of the …

The Cult of Mac has apparently had some inside information from an Apple employee who says that the iPad 2 launch is going to be a rather boring affair and that they have been running into problems all during the development phase. Cult Of Mac spoke to the unnamed source …

Google's Android operating system has risen in popularity in the last year and unfortunately with this growth comes a risk of malicious code. Today the search engine giant have had to remove 21 applications from the Android market that contained dodgy code designed to pass over personal information. These applications, …

Jonathan Ive, the design guru responsible for the iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro looks to be set to return to the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times reported that he is homesick but is facing the Apple board who don't want him to leave the company. This rumour has been …

Berstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi has had a meeting with acting Apple CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and VP Eddy Cue and his report highlights some interesting plans for Apple to expand market share in the near future. Sacconaghi's report highlights that Tim Cook has huge plans to expand …

AT&T have announced that it is going to start selling the Amazon Kindle e-reader in its retail stores starting this Sunday. The sales of Amazon's Kindle have been phenomenal and while many people just focus on the iPad, the sales figures for the latest Amazon tablet have been continually growing. …

Android has been gaining a lot of market share since 2010, growing from only 3.9 percent to a staggering 22.7 percent in the course of a year. Apple's iOS however grew just slightly from 14.4 percent to 15.7 percent, with Blackberry OS falling from 19.9 percent to 16 percent. Microsoft …

Never mind the hype around the iPad 2. The fun is all happening with the latest Motorola Xoom tablet. Google Android developers and enthusiast modders are over the moon to find out that the Xoom tablet's bootloader is customisable. This opens up the hardware for easy access to developers. XDA …