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Sony Computer Entertainment Australia will be cracking open the Champagne today as they have announced their Playstation 3 console has outsold all competing products to take the top spot in the first half of the year. NPD Australia data shows that the Playstation 3 is top spot in Q1/Q2 2012. …

Apple have been pressuring a judge to award them extra damages of $535 million in their U.S. Patent case against Samsung Electronics. This is in addition to their permanent injunction against sales of Samsung infringing products. Apple attorneys have said that ‘The harm to Apple was deliberate, not intentional' in …

As Apple continue to face criticism for dropping Google maps and using their own flawed, half finished system, many people are wondering whether this will impact the iPhone 5 sales performance in Q4 this year. We say it won't cause any problems for the company. Why? Well, Just look at …

From memory, Apple has never had a truly clean iPhone launch in recent years. With the iPhone 4 there was the Applegate situation while both the 4 and 4S faced some degree of yellow-tinted displays. While these problems were somewhat rectified by offering everyone a free case or waiting for …

Foxconn have closed one of their factories in China's Shanxi province after a fight broke out between up to 2,000 workers. 40 people were sent to hospital and other employees were arrested by authorities. Louis Woo, spokesman for Taipei based Foxconn said by phone to Bloomberg “We want to give …

Today we are going to look at a quad channel memory kit from the Mushkin Blackline Ridgeback range. This kit runs at 1600 MHz with tight timings of 8-8-8-24 and is aimed at users who are looking to build a powerful X79 system without spending too much money.  It's also …

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 …

Despite managing to meet its sales target of making £10 million in pre-tax profits this year, HMV's sales have continued to drop leading to a further reduction in share price by 8 per cent. While the company was keen to blame what it described as a lack of new music …

The weekend is here, time to treat yourself to some new hardware? That smell when opening a new box is all the sweeter when you didn't pay full retail, right? We posted a deal that ARIA were running earlier for a half price CM Storm Inferno gaming mouse. Sadly these …

4m 44.609s – The world’s fastest SuperPI 32M score achieved by the renown Russian overclocking team, OCLAB.RU, with G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 memory, Intel Core i7 3770K CPU and ASUS Z77 Maximus V Extreme motherboard Congratulations to the Russian legendary overclockers, Slamms and Smoke, from team “OCLAB.RU” on breaking the new …

ARIA have a one day deal running right now for one of the finest mice available on the market today. The CoolerMaster Storm Inferno 4,000 DPI mouse is available at almost HALF PRICE ! Normally in the United Kingdom you would pay £35-£40 for this high end gaming mouse, but …

When we first reviewed HTC's flagship Android smartphone, the One X back in June one of our main concerns was the software. This has since been fixed to a degree and now the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is tipped for an October release. The LTE equipped One XL and the …

ASUS' Padfone has not been the smashing success that they might have hoped for. Reviews of the device weren't overly positive but regardless ASUS sees enough potential in such a device to announce a successor. On October 16 ASUS will unveil the Padfone 2 in Milan and also Taipei. Not much …

Are you building a new system? Are you wanting to push some serious frame rates with a new graphics card update but concerned you can't afford the cost? Today we might just have the solution for you. We have worked with AFOX to give away not one but two of …

As we've said before on KitGuru, companies communicate in a lot of different ways. The press release is one and the annual report is another. While these don't normally contain downright lies, they are certainly spun in a very specific/positive way. But what about recruitment? It's tough to spin job …

Apple have updated their mapping software, switching from Google's system to their own with the latest release of iOS 6. The company are facing a massive backlash worldwide from customers, which has surprised everyone. The criticism is based around the new map system, and an array of errors which pollute …

One of the four men charged with facilitating copyright infringement as part of the Pirate Bay (TPB) trial and bankroller of the site's early days, Carl Lundström, has filed for personal bankruptcy. At this stage, after interest increases and additions, the four collectively owe 76 million Kronor (£7.2 million), but …

Comments made on social network Twitter, are unlikely to lead to criminal charges, the current director of prosecutions, Keir Starmer has said. This follows in the wake of scandal surrounding jokes made about Olympic diver Tom Daley and another made about blowing up a British airport. Starmer clarified the point, …

Regardless of recent events between Samsung and Apple, such as the billion dollar patent battle in California, Samsung's marketing team has taken another swipe at Apple customers barely a week after the announcement of the iPhone 5. The ad as usual mocks Apple fans waiting in line for the latest iDevice. …

I spoke with an industry insider a couple of hours ago and it may be the case that NAND flash memory prices will increase soon. The four largest NAND flash chip supplies, Toshiba, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk and SK Hynix are discussing the options for raising prices soon due to the …

Yesterday afternoon London time HTC renewed allegiance to Microsoft in New York. At the press event they announced two new devices for the Windows Phone 8 platform; the flagship 8X and 8S. The HTC 8X has a very sleek polycarbonate body weighing 130 grams and looks to fit in the …

I have used Microsoft keyboards for many years and really rate them as a great solution. They announced their latest Sculpt Comfort board which is a rather unusual design. This full size desktop model is an ergonomically friendly Comfort Curve layout. The difference is that this time they have split …

With the latest of serious bugs in IE going unfixed for a couple of days now, Germany's government has taken the surprising move to urge its citizens to stop using the long standing browser, amid fears over its security. Considering the flaw can affect all versions of the browser, it …

Slashdot, along with Sourceforge and Freecode have been sold to Dice Holdings, owners of tech job search site Dice.com. The technology news site, best known for giving internet writers massive boosts to their readership if linked to and its never-ending debates on topics such as browser preferences, Slashdot was once valued at …

Twitter has overhauled its look, by emphasising photos as part of a redesign that has quite obviously taken some inspiration from Facebook's Timeline cover photo. Revealed for the first time by company Dick Costolo this morning on American television, he said that a user's avatar image will now appear in …

In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was questioned over the upcoming Surface tablet launch. The passionate CEO believes they have a “very competitive product from the features perspective.” Ballmer also went on to hint at possible Surface pricing; from “$300 to about $700 or $800,” is the “sweet …

There's a school of thought in design that says ‘In order to go forward, you must first look back'. Probably one of the more famous examples in recent times was the re-emergence of the roadster sports car. Some of the ideas in the BMW Z4 go back half a century, …

Yesterday in London Motorola and Intel announced the first product of their smartphone partnership, the RAZR i. This is basically the global variant of the RAZR M targeted for the United States market announced two weeks ago. The RAZR i is one of the first smartphones to include Intel's Atom …

Alibaba, the Chinese web organisation has bought back half of the stake Yahoo had in the company for $7.6 billion. They are moving to their initial public offering (IPO). Alibaba paid $6.3 billion in cash and $800 million in shares of the Alibaba group. They also paid $550 million which …

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 …