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A recent SEC filing shows that Google Executive chairman Eric Schmidt could sell up to 42 percent of his stock in the company to get himself a tasty $2.5 billion. Schmidt owned 7.6 million shares in December and could sell 3.2 million shares over the course of the year in …

The latest bug in iOS6.1 is causing issues for corporate servers due to ‘excessive logging' on Exchange servers when a user connects for mail and calender services. A report on Microsoft Technet says “I had a user upgrade to 6.1 and immediately after he finished, his phone/IPAD started causing excessive …

The battle between Apple and Samsung has been long drawn out, and still continues however the latest news to hit would indicate that Tim Cook (now the CEO) was against the legal action against Samsung. Tim Cook took over the reigns when Steve Jobs died, but new reports say that …

Microsoft have a lot riding on the release of the new Surface Pro tablet however they are facing a supply problem which is proving embarrassing for the operating system giant. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3dFSzh1yU'] To promote the new range of tablets, they have started a high profile advertisement campaign which focuses on …

Apple have been battling against the jailbreaking crowd for as long as we can remember. The latest version called evasiOn has been a long time coming, but according to information received, it appears that it has been installed more than 7 million times in only six days. According to Apple …

The European Union has announced a new cybersecurity directive, that will place legal bindings on companies in key internet positions to report any breaches of their security, such as hacking attacks. This would bring companies like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other large scale services in-line and force them to keep …

As part of an ongoing investigation, CVG is claiming to have caught out several big name online retailers sending out 18+ rated games to underage children. Some of the specifically named ones include Amazon, HMV and Zavvi. In each instance, the underage individual used his visa debit card that was …

Following on from yesterday's story that administration firm Deloitte was set to shut 66 HMV locations around the country, we now have more details on which ones those will be and we've just heard that as many as 60 staff at the company's head quarters will be let go as well. One …

Warner Bros. has been caught out sending phony DMCA takedown requests to Google over Kim Dotcom's Mega file locker site. It obviously didn't realise that Mega links aren't listed with Google anyway – plus it sent the wrong URLs. A DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) request allows a media corporation to petition …

We're surfing on the internet and you stumble upon a website that asks you for your email address. Wait. Stop. Does anyone else remember giving away their email address to a website a few weeks ago? Now every time you log onto your Hotmail you see a horde of spam. Say no …

The developer of hit social interaction indie title, Journey, thegamecompany, has been speaking about the development of the game, saying that a choice to hold off on release for a year ended up making the company go bankrupt – and many of the staff went without pay for a long …

Kim Dotcom's team of staff at Mega just got a little more star studded with, the ex-head of InternetNZ, Vikram Kumar,  joining as its new chief executive. This will likely add an a new air of legitimacy to the site, though Kumar has been a vocal supporter of Dotcom's efforts in the …

First released on a key chain back in 1996, the Tamagotchi quickly became a sensation with kids around the world. You could pet it, clean up its poop, feed it… and that's about it. But it was awesome, for 1996. Now Bandai, the company behind the original creation, is re-releasing …

After the huge success of Angry Birds and all the other iPad-o-sphere games that followed, it looks like the next generation of man-machine interface is going to be a lot more mature. Intel and Eugen Systems have collaborated together to introduce the next revolution in Surface gaming. KitGuru was on …

BING has been playing second fiddle to Google now for as long as we can remember, however the situation has gotten worse for Microsoft as their search engine has fallen in ranking to Russian search engine Yandex. The information has been released by ComScore, showing Yandex as hitting a higher …

Today we are going to take a look at the Kraken X60 which is NZXT's first attempt at a performance liquid cooler.  Over the past few years there have been a number of different companies trying to enter the all-in-one liquid cooling market, following the success of Corsair and Antec. …

We have reported before that electronics giant Sony have been working hard on a recovery plan to reverse losses, which they have experienced for the last four years. Sony are selling their American headquarters building for $1.1 billion in the efforts to claw back an operating cash reserve. and their …

Lawnmower Man, Tron, The Matrix, anyone that's grown up watching these sorts of movies that feature a virtual world and has gone back to their PC, a little more disappointed in its lack of immersion than they were before, has been looking for something like Project Holodeck their entire lives. …

Despite Microsoft pushing through a touch platform for the PC more than a decade ago, it took Apple's iPad for anyone to notice. The increase in touch based systems, automatically leads to an increase in cool/new touch apps. Eugene and Intel were on hand today to show off just what …

A botnet that hijacked the clicks and search results of millions of net users has been shut down by Microsoft and Symantec. Apparently the group responsible was netting over a million dollars a year through advertising revenue, generated by the misappropriated traffic. In order to achieve the shut down, the Microsoft Symantec …

Looking at the hardware field these days, with Sony no way near the big player it used to be in TVs, it almost seems unnecessary, however according to ex vice president at Microsoft, Joachim Kempin, the software giant created the original Xbox to curb Sony's advance as the top media …

While we might be mourning the loss of some HMV outlets this morning, previously administered firm GAME, seems to be doing a big better. Today it has announced a partnership with gaming royalty, Hideo Kojima, for the launch of the new Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance. As part of this team …

HMV administrator Deloitte has just announced that in the next two months, 66 stores will be closed, which will affect over 900 staff members – though it's not clear all of them will be let go. “As part of our ongoing review of HMV's financial position, we have now completed …

The ever popular Apple iTunes store has reached their 25 billionth download, which translates to more than three songs for every person on Earth. Apple awarded a gift card worth 10,000 euros to a German student who bought the 25 billionth track. Phillip Luepke, 22 from Hanover in Germany downloaded …

Microsoft are gunning for Google in a high profile campaign urging Gmail users to switch to Outlook.com over privacy concerns. Their national campaign which they are calling ‘Don't get scroogled by Gmail' is based around the point that Google scan user emails to determine relevant advertisements to place alongside the …

A man in South Korea has been taken to hospital with second degree burns, after his Samsung Note battery exploded. KitGuru fires up a Napster playlist that includes Donna Summer's ‘Hot Stuff' and takes a closer look at the phenomenon of overheating and exploding items in the trouser region. Anyone …

A Forrester report shows that people who work in ‘information' would rather own a Windows 8 Surface tablet rather than any Apple product, including the iPad. The report shows however that very few of the people involved actually owned a Windows 8 tablet. ReadWrite reported that 32 percent of the …

One of the most powerful additions to the arsenal of a formula one team is the ability to  come up with a novel solution to an engineering problem and then print it out. But what if you could do the same with human organs? KitGuru ponders the possibility of low …

The United States Federal Reserve has announced that one of its internal websites was hacked, though it has assured the public that no critical functions of the bank were affected and that the flaw in the system that allowed the hacker to gain access has now been shored up. “The …

The Raspberry Pi made a big, fruity splash when it arrived back in 2011, as a cheap method for teaching computer mechanics and as a very small form factor system for modders and hackers to play around with. Now though, we have a new iteration out in the wild, known …