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An Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP), iiNet, has walked out of talks with copyright lobbyist groups, claiming that it shouldn't have to “perform work on their [copyright holder's] behalf,” and that instead, the real problem behind piracy in the country was down to the limited legal availability of much of the protected …

S2 Games has announced that its MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth, has been hacked and the passwords of user's accounts have been breached. To counter it the developer has reset everyone's passwords and is recommending that any players change any login information elsewhere that shares details with HoN. Showing a …

Instagram, the now Facebook owned image sharing and retro-filtering site, has just changed its terms and conditions, allowing the site to have complete say in what happens with your photos once uploaded. It could use them in adverts or sell them to other organisations, all without telling you a thing. …

The Westboro Baptist Church is a deplorable group at the best of times, but in the last couple of days it's received an extra helping of hate from the world at large after it announced its intention to protest the funerals of the the 20+ children that died during the …

Thus far HTC have announced and released two Windows Phone 8 devices; the Windows Phone 8S by HTC and Windows Phone 8X by HTC. Both devices are somewhat small by today's standard and neither carry specifications worthy of a true flagship. Back in late June specifications were leaked for a …

If you haven't check out our Facebook page, then now is the time to do so. We have an active community over there, and have given away 10 games this weekend to our Facebookers. We are giving away games all week, so be sure to head over here and join …

No, it has nothing to do with Arnie and the search for John Conner. Back in the day, T1 lines were the stuff of legend, with so much bandwidth that you'd be running an enterprise and a half on the throughput. But how does it stack up today? KitGuru downloads …

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Bah Humbug! you may say, but thanks to PC Specialist we have a kick ass AMD gaming system to …

IBM have published their annual list of innovations and they claim that computers will gain human like abilities to receive input through senses such as smell, touch and taste. IBM are calling the development the ‘era of cognitive systems' and claim that it will herald a completely new way for …

A federal judge has rejected a request from Apple to ban U.S. sales of smartphones from Samsung. Lucy Koh, a U.S. District Court Judge denied Apple's request saying that they were unable to show that Samsung's actions support an injunction. She said “Apple's evidence does not establish that any of …

After being announced nearly two weeks ago, it has been revealed that the ‘international' model of HTC's 1080p flagship device is not destined for European markets. Japanese and United States variants have already been announced and released in the form of the J Butterfly and Droid DNA. Right now, the …

Comet, one of Britain's more iconic electronics stores, is set to shut up shop for good from tomorrow, with the 50 per cent – off everything bar high end electronics – sale that ran over the weekend continuing throughout the day. Like HMV's financial troubles that we reported on earlier …

Well you might not be able to specifically, but a small percentage of Twitter users can, as part of a new initiative by the social network to allow users to download their entire account's history of tweets. While the parameters for a trial like this are a little hard to fathom in terms …

The trend for the smartphone market at the moment is undoubtedly bigger is better. A few years ago, we were looking at 3.5 inch displays; a figure that has since jumped to the higher ranks of the 4 inch range. Thus far, Windows Phone devices has for the most part …

HMV's future is looking increasingly shaky, with the most recent speculation coming in that Apollo Global Management could be set to buy up the ailing technology and media retailer. Share prices have continued to crash in recent weeks, seeing it drop to mere pence. While this means that any buyout …

When you are in the market for a new smartphone we always look at the size of the display and often the resolution but never the refresh rate of the chosen panel. While the size of the display may have the most obvious effect on the usability and more than …

EA Games has been dropped from the NASDAQ 100, a stock market index of the top 100 non-financial businesses that feature on the NASDAQ stock exchange, with other large firms Netflix and RIM also falling from grave. However, as some leave others must take their place and Facebook and Western Digital …

NPD DisplaySearch have claimed that Apple underestimated the demand for their iPad Mini and the company initially asked their suppliers to supply 6 million of the 7.85 inch display panels. NPD Displaysearch claim that the figure was not enough and Apple are now stepping up the orders to 12 million, …

The Fortune 500 list of companies requires you to be turning over more than $12 Billion to even be considered for inclusion. To give you a sense of scale, the biggest component company in our industry is Asus – and they only JUST satisfy that criteria. So what can an …

Apple have stunned analysts worldwide by announcing that they have sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China, a new record for the company. Tim Cook, Apple CEO has said that the sales has been ‘the best first weekend sales ever in China'. His statement can be read …

As an organisation whose entire business has been built on the quality of its independent reviews, KitGuru has a general interest in all things lab-related. So when we heard about an Australian company's fat-busting trouser system, we were intrigued to know more. KitGuru rolls slightly sideways to hide the cellulite …

When it comes to PCs, we've almost completely forgotten that we're actually talking about ‘compatibles' – that we don't buy the original ‘IBM PC', we actually buy something that agrees to ‘work in a similar way' and that's fine. But a Sunday morning stroll along one of the busiest markets …

We recently had the pleasure to sit down with ASRock COO Mr. LL Shiu, one of the key leaders in one of the industries fastest growing technology companies – ASROCK. I asked Mr Shui how he felt about their growth of recognition since 2002 when very few people actually knew …

Valve has launched a new feature on its digital distribution platform, allowing those that participate in the beta to begin making and using guides for games. The idea being that when you get stuck, you can pull up the guide within Steam itself instead of having to Google for it. …

We all use cooling fans, in our laptop's, desktop computers and even in some peripherals. This constant battle against heat has made the reliance on fan technology ever more prominent. This could change in the future however. Researchers at GE have created a super thin cooling device which they claim …

The British and United States governments have refused to sign a new UN treaty that they believed would give governments too much control over the internet. While this sounds like a very liberal stance to take, ultimately they want more of a open governing structure, where free enterprise also has …

Google receives a lot of takedown requests from companies around the world. Most of these are from large movie studios that don't want torrent links to their works appearing in the search engine's results, but sometimes these groups go way overboard, requesting links to completely legitimate content be removed. Perhaps …

Cliff Blezinski, the guy behind Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, left Epic Games in October and has been fielding offers from other studios left and right since. However, now he's suggesting that it's only a matter of time until he starts his own studio. At the time of his …

Tis the season to be running amazing competitions with stunning prizes, it seems!  If we had a dollar for every prize being offered in December, we'd have a lot of dollars. Still, NEVER SETTLE, that's our motto – and it seems to be the motto down at Aria as well. …

We reported a few days ago that Microsoft were aiming to get their Surface RT tablet stocked in retail stores, in the efforts to generate more sales. According to The Register the deal is close to being signed, but the fine details are holding it back. Microsoft are pushing the …