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Visit any major city on the planet, roll through its development over the past 100 years and you’ll notice something about the height of the skyline. When you need to pack more people into a fixed area, X and Y are not enough. You MUST build upwards. KitGuru casts an …

Regular readers will be aware that Proview Electronics have been gunning for Apple, entering into legal wrangles in China over the iPad trademark. Proview won't be happy as a California judge, Mark Pierce dismissed the lawsuit against Apple which was first filed in February. Proview had claimed that Apple deceived …

Hewlett Packard have just announced a new series of ‘Envy' Ultrabook computers with aggressive pricing. The new Envy Sleekbooks will be offered at $150 less than the current range of Ultrabooks. The new machines will feature both Intel and AMD processors and will ship with 14 and 15.6 inch screens. …

Microsoft rolled out a fix last night for both 2008 and 2011 versions of Office for Macintosh. One of these fixes is critical, as it fixes a loophole which would allow an attacker to ‘overwrite a computer's memory with malicious code.' Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.2 and Office 2008 12.3.3 include …

Well known hacking group Anonymous claimed to have accessed and published the details of around 55,000 Twitter accounts. The company are denying their claims saying that Anonymous posted ‘duplicate' information and password information for suspended spam based accounts. Anonymous posted a file on Pastebin which listed Twitter usernames and passwords. …

For those tech readers who don’t always get time to check out our game related content at Kitguru gaming – here is a round up of content published in the last week. “A Magnet School for Video Game Design” While it may be a no-brainer to gamers that the video …

While we don't often focus on the phone market on the other side of the Atlantic this definitely caught our eye this morning. Today at CTIA, HTC and Verizon annoucned the latest phone in its Droid Incredible series, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE. Being manufactured by HTC in partnership with Verizon the latest Incredible …

While this has been expected for some time now due to the ever increasing affordability and value of smartphones, numbers released by Nielsen reveal that over half of mobile phone owners in the US now own a smartphone. The figure officially stands at 50.4%, which is up from 47.8% in …

We spoke to a source this weekend in Taipei who told us that Apple are preparing a $799 Macbook Air for release in either August or September this year. This will be bad news for Intel who are intensely targeting their UltraBook platform to the enthusiast audience. The price so …

As we have known now for some time, Apple are planning to release a new high definition television. Well known Apple based Cult Of Mac have mocked up what they expect Apple to release. In their report, Cult Of Mac say that they have been in contact with an unnamed …

Google are the first company to receive a license application to test their self driving car on public roads, according to the Nevada DMV. The license plate is red, which signifies that the vehicle is ‘autonomous'. There is also an infinity logo on the far left of the plate. Bruce …

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today introduced release candidate firmware v1.4RC, which dramatically improves the performance of its Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 Series SSDs. Most notably, v1.4RC nearly doubles sequential write performance for lower capacity models, significantly boosts …

Back in the day, everything was all about DOS or CPM on Z-80. That was replaced by an era of Windows on Intel, but on 28th May the new world order prepares to feel smug and enjoy the new noodles in Hong Kong. KitGuru prepares to check into the Gold …

Samsung has been flying high in recent times by taking the crown for the largest phone vendor worldwide. The Korean giant doesn't want to stop there though, according to mobile division president JK Shin, Samsung expects to sell over 200 million smartphones in 2012. Sadly, Samsung does not publicly release …

There are several things that affect the overall performance of a processor-based device. You can look for bottlenecks in the data transfer and try to improve them or get the internals of the chip itself to do more work per clock cycle. While balance is important, almost nothing can beat …

Today we are giving away a stunning 8GB memory kit courtesy of G.Skill! You can win 8GB of their latest TridentX 2,400 memory. We reviewed this memory last week and it won our highest award, thanks to a mixture of incredible performance and stability when overclocked. You can read our …

Using the old ‘give yourself enough rope and you can inflict a great self-hanging' wisdom, the UK government decided that 100% of households will have high speed broadband by 2015. Now, according to the LSE (London School of Economics), there will be a shortfall of around $1Bn. KitGuru calculates that …

There are a number of media streaming devices to choose from on the market and it can be difficult to decide which one best suits your needs.  We have looked a number of impressive devices from AC Ryan in the past which have won our most prestigious awards. We hadn't …

Adobe announced that Creative Suite 6 (CS6) is now available. The new suite contains the latest versions of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Adobe Premier Pro, Flash Professional. They are shipping four different versions called Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium; Creative Suite 6 Design Standard; Creative Suite …

Following Thursday's announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S III, the local UK carriers have been quick to to indicate that there will be wide availability of the flagship phone later this month. Just like with the HTC One X, the Galaxy S III will launch on all major carriers. This …

Custom OEM skins such as HTC's Sense or Samsung's TouchWiz are commonplace on Android smartphones these days and are used to differentiate their phones. HTC Sense has as many lovers as haters; much like most other Android skins. In a recent interview HTC's head of Sense development, Drew Bamford, provided some valuable …

While the majority of minds were focused on the Samsung Galaxy S III last night, LG has attempted to steal some of Samsung's thunder by announcing the Optimus LTE 2. If you ask us, LG has succeeded; the latest Optimus smartphone is the first Android device to have a 2 gigabytes of memory. …

Horace Dediu from Asymco has released data on operating profits from the top eight mobile phone vendors in Q1 of 2012. The report highlights that Apple and Samsung now hold 99% of the overall profits. Apple claim 73% of this 99%. The Apple share has dropped from 75% in the …

While we have already reported on Samsung's contribution to the Olympics, we did not mention the exact and precise details of the arguably flagship smartphone that was launched last night in London. For all the rumours about naming schemes over the past few months, “the next Galaxy” will be be known …

Apple continue to dominate the tablet sector, selling 55 million iPads since the original product launch in 2010. According to latest reports from Viewsonic, Tablet PCs in the Taiwanese market have dropped to 30,000 a month compared to 40,000 during the peak period. Digitimes posted that Max Liu, ViewSonic Asia …

Shares in Research In Motion dropped to an 8 year low yesterday. This was fueled by a demo of the new BlackBerry 10 Operating system this week, which has failed to inspire investors. Research In Motion have had a very tough 12 months, facing a growing challenge in the smartphone …

Having captured the ‘number one spot' for Android smartphones, Samsung is now gunning all out for overall top spot – in the hearts and minds of the global public – with the launch of the Galaxy S3/S III. KitGuru steps into a high street independent reseller to see what all …

What started off as one man's vision for bringing the whole college dating experience to a much wider audience will, around 18th May 2012, propel Mark Zuckerberg to around number 33 on the Forbes list of the richest people on the planet. KitGuru spend half an hour editing a pic …

Nokia has just announced that their camera-centric 808 PureView will start to roll out in Russia, India and possibly other markets in May. The handset is the first of Nokia's phones that comes with their exclusive and award winning PureView technology. The technology includes a massive 41 MP sensor, Carl …

Arctic Cooling are releasing a new liquid and air cooler for high end graphics cards. To improve performance and to lower noise levels. Graphics Card Cooler for Enthusiasts Unmatched cooling performance Active Cooling Unit and thermal adhesive for lower RAM and VR temperatures Maintenance-free closed-loop liquid system Lightest high-end graphics …