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Microsoft is well known for its costly acquisitions, with Nokia, Mojang and Skype all being snapped up by them for substantial amounts in the last few years. Now it seems that it is willing to pay over $100 million for a calendar app on iOS and Android, certainly not pocket …

Samsung Electronics is expected to significantly improve its contract semiconductor manufacturing business this year thanks to early start of production using 14nm FinFET fabrication process. While Apple, the largest customer of Samsung, now orders chips not only to Samsung, but to TSMC as well, it continues to work with the …

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler will reveal his new net neutrality rules to the four other FCC commissioners tomorrow, but he has let us know pretty clearly what direction he is heading in and it's looking like a big win for consumers. In an opinion article for Wired, he said that “[the] rules will ban paid prioritization, …

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday introduced the industry’s first memory solution that integrates dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and NAND flash into one package. The new package will help Samsung and its customers to make smartphones thinner and more cost efficient. The new ePoP (embedded package on package) memory package consists …

Riot Games CEO and co-founder Brandon Beck had the chance to open the 2015 DICE Summit today, with a keynote speech which he used to demonstrate how hiring the right kind of people for your team, can make a huge difference. He explained that the e-Sports juggernaut, had made a massive mistake when …

Apple is planning to spend around $2 billion to turn its failed Sapphire production plant in to a global data center. The site, which is located in Arizona, was originally supposed to be used to create Sapphire displays for the latest iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, although things changed before …

Rise of the Tomb Raider will be heading to the Xbox One and Xbox 360 at the end of this year, although the last generation version will not be made by Crystal Dynamics. Instead, Netherlands based developer, Nixxes Software, will be bringing the game to Microsoft's last generation console. This …

A Chinese web-site has published what it claims to be preliminary performance benchmarks of an upcoming high-performance graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices. Just like previous unofficial test results, the new ones indicate that AMD’s forthcoming high-end graphics solution will beat everything that is available on the market today except …

Last week, DMCA takedown notices were issued to a couple of mod creators making changes to recently released game Dying Light. However, it turns out that these DMCA notices were sent by mistake by a third-party company hired to try to suppress piracy. The Entertainment Software Association has acknowledged that …

iOS 8 had a bit of a slow start but the adoption rate is finally starting to climb up at a faster rate with almost three-quarters of all iOS devices now running the latest version, which Apple launched last year alongside the new iPhone 6. Based on the latest statistics …

A hefty amount of information on Bungie's upcoming Destiny expansion, House of Wolves, leaked online this week, including the possible release date, along with new weapons and armor. A Reddit user managed to gain access to the hidden future content via an unknown method. Apparently we can expect the House …

Sony was originally supposed to announce its financial results today but due to last year's costly cyber attack on Sony Pictures servers, the company has had to issue a forecast for how it performed instead, showing that one of the biggest expenditures for Sony at the moment is dealing with …

Twitch managed to surpass the 100 million unique monthly views milestone last year, the video game streaming service has announced today. Twitch launched a new site yesterday, commemorating all of the milestones that the service has managed to surpass since its launch just a few years ago. Other stats from …

For media groups, the war on piratcy is one that will never be won, but there are battles that can be fought and contested and one of the ones they like fight the most, is send letters out to allegedly infringing internet users demanding money. However, they can't do that …

With all of the DLC controversy that's surrounded Turtle Rock's monster hunting shooter, Evolve, it's worth remembering that the game does feature a lot of unlockable content too. Yes, no one is particularly happy with the monster pricing nudge to pre-order, but there is still a lot of non-DLC content. …

If like me you've wheeled up to LAN events like Multiplay's iSeries with your PC in tow, only to sit down on their bog-standard chairs and stare enviously at those in large, plush arm chairs and racing seats, then this week may be the best time to remedy that, as …

Twitter, unlike its main social networking rival, Facebook, has always had a bit of a problem with monetisation. The users have always been there and the platform produces a lot of ‘content,' but figuring out how to make money from it has been much harder than it has been for …

Failbetter Games' Sunless Sea has been available as an early access title for a while. During that period it's gone through big overhauls of the combat system and has seen the map expand far beyond its initial boundaries. Finally though, it's nearing an official launch, so to celebrate and tempt …

Asustek Computer has introduced a new low-cost mainboard that is powered by an inexpensive core-logic set, yet, which is designed for gaming market. The motherboard sports all the essential technologies for gamers, a number of ROG-specific features as well as the company’s legendary quality, but it does not support overclocking. The …

Although Nvidia Corp. still have not made any decisions about how to handle the situation with GeForce GTX 970 graphics cards and their incorrect specifications, a number of graphics cards suppliers now accept returns of such adapters, at least, in the U.K. and Germany. In the recent weeks it was …

A web-site has published specifications of Intel Corp.’s 100-series core-logic sets designed for the code-named “Skylake” microprocessors due in the third quarter of the year. The new platforms will receive a significant upgrade of PCI Express lanes, which will improve their storage and multi-GPU capabilities. The family of “Skylake”-supporting Intel …

While some of us were hoping that the rumours of a fourth of February release for the preview of Windows 10 for phones were true, it turns out this is not the case. Microsoft representatives have confirmed that the preview, which will run on all phones running Windows Phone 8.1, will be coming …

ARM Holdings, a leading developer of mobile processors and solutions, on Tuesday introduced its second-generation high-performance 64-bit core based on the ARMv8-A architecture. While ARM has not revealed a lot of details about its new core, it said that it significantly increases performance compared to existing offerings and is the …

Amazon have released a PC application that you can use to turn your dusty old physical books, into Kindle ebooks. The app will allow you to scan any book while running text recognition to properly digitize the text and preserving any notes and pictures as well. These ebooks can then …

The Humble Bundle is back, this time offering up nine classic Star Wars titles, with the promise of more to be added over the next couple of weeks, all to raise money for charity. Pay what you want games include Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Knight Academy. Those …

A Netflix executive appears to be under the impression that Sony and Microsoft are planning to launch 4K video capable refreshes of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this year, around November on their two year anniversaries. Obviously we are talking about 4K video playback, 4K gaming is going to …

The next version of the OpenGL graphics API is set to be revealed next month at the Game Developers Conference, with Valve to give the presentation. The event page for the conference has been updated with a new session listed, titled ‘glNext: The Future of High Performance Graphics'. The session …

Tonight we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Dying Light. We announce the winner Wednesday afternoon (UK …

Razer has updated its Blade 14 inch gaming notebook for 2015, swapping out the old GTX 870m graphics chip for the new Maxwell based GTX 970m with improved power consumption capabilities. The laptop will also be available with a 1080p screen now as well as the 3200×1800 display introduced last …

So much of what we do here at KitGuru is based on adding super-fast components to the inside of your system or attaching a new monitor with a resolution the like of which your sitting room/den/office has never seen. But how much of our experience is now based on how …