Microsoft don't want their staff using competitor products. Steve Ballmer, their colourful CEO recently held their annual employee meeting and announced a series of freebies that Microsoft employees will be getting. 90,000 Microsoft employees worldwide will be getting a new Surface RT tablet, a new work PC with Windows 8 …

Today Ebay showed off its newly designed logo, though it has yet to go live on either the .com or .co.uk domains. It looks sharp and sleek and all the letters are lined up correctly now – though similar to Microsoft's redesign, I can't help but wonder how much the auction …

As the Foo Fighters closed out Apple's expansive iPhone 5 launch event in California yesterday, opinions about the new phone raged across social networking sites like Facebook. Those who loved the idea of 28 mega pixel photos of their wonderful home city, went straight onto Google to find out how …

Today we are going to look at one of MySn's fully loaded gaming notebooks, the XMG P502, which combines a powerful Ivy Bridge CPU with nVidia's all singing, all dancing GTX 680M graphics card. All of this is contained within a 15.6" form factor which isn't much more bulky than your average multimedia machine.

The image of Bitcoin as a reliable option for investment and online transactions, has been hit once again, after trading site Bitfloor was hit by hackers – leading to the loss of over 24,000 (£160,000) of the digital currency. Wired reports, that the hackers were able to gain access to …

Without doubt, Google maps has played its part in the revolution of the world through technology. We think it's perfectly normal to check out a route to a destination in another city – from the comfort of our own home. But there are limitations. Fisheye image provider, 360Cities takes the …

While Guild Wars 2 might have been selling extremely well, with players knocking up impressive levelling sprints, it's not without its problems. A few days ago we noted the issue with mispriced items, but now ArenaNet is having to deal with hackers. In quite an ingenious scheme, a few nefarious …

Today we are looking at the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion – hot on the heels of our analysis of the X79 Extreme11.  The Fatal1ty X79 Champion seems to be somewhat of a bargain when compared to the £500 X79 Extreme11 … as it only costs £330.  This puts it up …

Today we are looking at the Gigabyte X79S-UP5-WIFI, an X79 motherboard based on the Intel C606 chipset. On paper this looks to be perfect as the foundation for a high end workstation system. Intel have also supplied an Xeon E5 2660 processor, an 8 core chip with hyperthreading support. How …

It's that time of year again, when gamers from across Europe flock to the International Centre in Telford to attend what has become the biggest gaming festival in the UK.  This bank holiday weekend marks the 46th iteration of Multiplay's Insomnia series which will accommodate over 3000 gamers for five …

This weekend we have a killer competition for not one, but four lucky readers. We have worked closely with ARIA to give away some droolworthy prizes. We are giving away a 64GB Apple iPad 3 and three 8GB iPod Touch players!! To stand a chance of winning one of these …

The world of IT is very competitive. It's rare for any company, no matter how good, to dominate a market for years – but that's just what Kingston has done in the memory sector. In the wake of GamesCom 2012, KitGuru managed to catch up with the company's Regional Director …

Over the past couple of years ASRock have really upped their game and are now competing with world renowned motherboard manufacturers such as Asus and Gigabyte.  We have looked at a number of motherboards from ASRock recently and none of them have failed to impress.  So when they offered us …

Have you ever been out for a romantic dinner, only to be continually disturbed by the sounds of text messages and phone calls from other tables in the restaurant? I have even seen some people taking pictures of their meals to upload to Facebook, just before they eat. A restaurant …

There are a large number of companies in the UK who would be willing to build a PC to your own specification providing you're willing to put up enough cash.  There isn't a whole lot which differentiates these PCs from each other, though, as you're usually restricted to the same …

EA has today announced at GamesCon that it plans to bring its Origin game store to Macs, Android smartphones, Facebook and even Smart TVs. Electronic Arts has moved away from the Steam platform recently but now intends to follow in its footsteps. No specific release dates have been announced yet …

Arctic's passive MC001-BD earned our KitGuru 'Worth Buying' award. Can its more powerful, $749.00 sibling impress us equally as much?

To date Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone has only been available in two colours; Pebble Blue and Marble White. While these two colours have been enough for the vast majority out there, I'm sure many owners had a lingering thought of “why is there not a black model?” Well, according …

This year we have reviewed a number of custom gaming PCs including the Palicomp Alpha Pulse, which we looked at quite recently.  This system offered good value for money and was ideal for someone looking for a capable gaming system without spending a ridiculous amount of money. We don't like …

Nothing is more annoying than disturbing sounds inside your PC. As the name implies, be quiet! has always focused on providing products with unsurpassed noise free operation, at world class levels. This focus has earned be quiet! the honor of being the best selling power supply maker in Germany for …

Google have acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing firm. The idea is to offer their clients new opportunities to interact with people across social services. Wildfire are comprised of nearly 400 employees. Wildfire Interactive were formed 4 years ago in Redwood City, California and they are focused on helping …

Touting a 17.3” 1080p screen, 16GB of memory, RAID 0 SSDs, a BluRay drive and Killer Gaming network card, is MSI’s latest ‘Gaming Series’ iteration worth its credit card-crunching £1,999 price tag?!

The New York Times recently published a story that said Apple were in talks to invest a serious amount of case into social networking site Twitter. The claims were that the investment would raise Twitters company valuation to $10 billion. The Wall Street Journal have argued the original story claiming …

Investors took another $10 billion valuation from Facebook this weekend, moving shares to an all time low. The social networking company have offered no forecast and analysts say that mobile investments could put future earnings under pressure. Facebook have a market capitalisation now of $48 billion, half of their IPO …

Getty has announced the intention to take a 20 gigapixel image of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, in a similar fashion to the 2011 FA Cup football final and Superbowl. However, while that image took days to get online, this picture will purportedly be up within hours thanks to …

Last month we saw some of Gigabyte's upcoming Z77 motherboards at Computex which feature their latest Ultra Durable 5 technology.  We have been very impressed by all the existing Gigabyte Z77 motherboards we've tested so we are quite excited to see what the new range has to offer. Today we …

As our regular readers know, we have some of the best competitions on the internet and today is no exception. If you were paying attention earlier in the day, then you will already have read our review of the excellent new Patriot Viper ‘Black Mamba' 2,133mhz memory. The company have …

Many people don't have the time or expertise to build a new system so there is still a large market for pre-built computers.  There are quite a number of companies who will happily build you a gaming machine, from the smaller custom builders such as PCSpecialist to the large multinational …

We have tested a number of products from ASRock over the past couple of years and none of them have failed to impress.  It's clear that they are gunning for the longer established brands such as Asus and Gigabyte and they now produce a full range of motherboards targeted at …

At KitGuru we test quite a wide range of products from numerous manufacturers.  It would be fair to say that we look at many products from Asus but they are usually high-end motherboards or graphics cards designed with overclockers and gamers in mind. Asus have their fingers in many more …