Tag Archives: Apple

Samsung and Apple have been at each other's throats for some time now, across the business landscape and in the courtrooms. Despite all this they've been cooperating on certain aspects of their products, one such way being that Apple's iPad and MacBook lines used Samsung batteries. Now however, Apple has …

Foxconn share prices have jumped by a huge 31.9 per cent after rumours began circulating that the electronics manufacturer would be producing the next iPhone, winning a big contract bidding war with other potentials. This despite the fact that just two weeks ago it admitted to using child labour. This …

If your dear old grandma has trouble charging that “new touch gizmo thing,” and doesn't like faffing with cables, one Zurich company, Micasa Labs, might have a pretty elegant solution. Granted it's a little more expensive than most chargers, but it's certainly built into an item she'll be familiar with …

The father of a man who suffered brain damage during an accident at a Foxconn facility that was making Apple products, has taken the manufacturer to court for its handling of the man's care. 26 year old Zhang Tingzhen was electrocuted in a Foxconn factory accident just over a year …

As if anyone is surprised, Apple is doing rather well financially at the moment and has announced that for the fourth quarter of 2012, it has made a profit over $8.2 billion. Compared with the same period last year, things are on the up, as it made ‘only' $6.6 billion. …

Around a year ago, the magic glue holding Samsung and Apple together as technology partners, was called into question time and time again – as both sides were investing million in suits and counter suits. In most normal walks of life, the two would have parted company a long time …

The offices of KitGuru are regularly assailed with all manner of emails, brochures, presentations, videos and an assortment of other attention-grabbing ways to tell us that one company or other is doing well and launching something popular. While we can't say with 100% certainty that it is always the best …

The best football teams in the world not only play their own game, they also mark the opposition off the pitch – preventing them from playing THEIR game. While Apple's initial plan was to push the iPad Mini into stores for 12th December, that date has moved ahead of announcements …

Apple is one of the few companies on the planet that can get away with launching products that simply don't work. When it launched an iPhone that struggled to make phone calls, customers around the world simply learned to hold their phones differently. Now Apple has a mapping system that's …

Apple have sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 handsets in the first 24 hours, but they are now apparently struggling to meet the demand and have set back the pre-order delivery times in both the USA and UK. We all knew the demand would be high, but Apple are …

The world is becoming an inherently more graphical, more tactile place where we – as users – are being pulled to the mainframe data storage concepts of old (where all the important stuff is being held elsewhere), while at the same time seeing big increases in locally available compute power …

Here at KitGuru, we like the idea that all advertising needs to be legal, honest and decent. It's a cornerstone of how the world does business and it's to be applauded. Photos sent in from a shopping centre in North London have given cause for concern with the packaging of …

With a big launch almost upon us, stores across the planet would normally also prepare to sell a range of accessories to the lucky new owners of the iPhone 5. Checking with our Far East sources, there seems to be something of a delay. KitGuru checks the calendar for accessory …

We have all been annoyed by the endless “please turn your cellphone off and put it on flight mode if it has such a feature” at such some stage in our lives – yet a patent granted to Apple could end this and also bring about some more worry-worthy consequences. …

We all know that nothing lasts forever. Even Bill Gates famously used to hold an annual dinner party for the bosses of companies like Compaq and Novell to discuss ‘extinction' and the fact that they would all, one day, no longer exist. Right now, Apple appears to have the big …

Apple looks to have lifted its ban on torrent applications on the iOS, having allowed Conttrol, an app that lets you manage your uTorrent software remotely with the use of your iPhone. It's not the only one that's shown up on the app store either, with Apple also certifying Transmission RPC a …

With original Apple founder in control, Apple would say no to small iPad. But with new boss man in charge the company is looking at a global economy and making the tough choices. Smaller iPad is one of these choices and the choice has been made. When OEM manufacturers in …

While PC users are warm and fuzzy with the idea that they are tracked all over the web, pretty much all the time, Apple users seem to have a much higher expectation of privacy. Google circumvented the Apple users' choice to remain anonymous and, now, will pay the $22.5m price. KitGuru fixes …

Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January of this year and has been trying to sell some patents in order to pay off creditors. Apple wasn't keen on that, since it claimed to own a fair few of the patents Kodak was shopping around. However, this week a Judge sided with …

With $2.5 billion on the table, Apple and Samsung will be punching each other to death with squads of highly paid lawyers in a California court room. Central to Apple's case is that the launch of the iPad in 2010 (three years after the iPhone in 2007) heralded the world's …

While quite a few sites have been reporting that Apple has patented the design for a traditionally PlayStation like video game controller, it looks like that's not exactly true. In reality, Apple has been investigating turning other devices, like the iPhone and iPad into controllers for systems like Apple TV …

Apple has been granted a host of new patents, one of which describes a technology that the document terms “5D”, allowing the fruity firm to potentially make use of both fourth and fifth dimensions. This isn't time and some other as yet undiscovered dimension however, but term is used to …

The move from desktop to laptop was gradual. Given that we've had portable computing solutions since 1981, it took until the last part of 2008 before the laptop became the dominant PC life form. The latest research shows that Apple's forte will take a lot less time to pass laptops. …

We work with some of the world's leading technology companies, especially when it comes to graphics cards. During a recent video shoot with one of the biggest, we were discussing that wonderful thing called ‘the future' and the discussion moved to image quality, preparedness and the cost of glass. The …

KitGuru is in love with the Japanese idea of maximum efficiency with minimum effort. It's something that permeates not only the universe as a whole, but the world if technology in particular. One of the first things that any computer science student learns is that, in life, remove repeating groups. …

It's all well and good giving a shout out to a new software update that will touch the lives of millions, but how certain can we be that our lives will actually improve after the time-consuming effort of updating an iPad or sumsuch?  KitGuru optimistically plugs an iPad 3 into …

If a recent patent grab by no one other than Apple is anything to go by then we could soon see “physical” keyboards on smartphone displays, or at least we will have the sensation that they are there. While less developed haptic feedback systems are already available on some smartphones today, this …

The world divides in a number of ways. Popular divisions include “Ah yes, I remember a time before the video recorder had been invented” as well as “Sorry, what's a tape?” – alongside “Liverpool can't seem to end the season without winning the championship” to “Nope – never won it …

It has been determined via several retailers that shipments of 2011 model 15-inch MacBook Pros are slowing down including variants that are based on higher processor clock speeds, which is indicative that Apple is lowering production in preparation for the new 2012 model roll-out. It's not uncommon that we see …

One of the man reasons Apple users feel superior when they boot the Mac, is the supposed lack of viruses. There’s no doubt that locking hardware to software with the Unix operating system has security advantages, but is it invulnerable?  New reports suggest not. KitGuru dresses like Colombo to investigate. The idea …