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Not often KitGuru discusses channel affairs. Most of our readers are fun loving types who love nothing better than loading up a virtual plasma rifle and blowing their best friends into a million tiny globs of goo. That said, we're hearing a lot of channel chit-chat about Bell Micro and …

Microsoft often make decisions that befuddle enthusiast users and many across the net are wondering if the recent news about IE9 being incompatible with Windows XP is going to cause a massive backlash with the Windows user base. Research firm NetApplications have reported that in August 61 percent of all …

It has been a year of billion dollar take overs, with companies like Intel taking over a few companies to expand their portfolio and dip their toes into new sectors. News has just hit that IBM are buying Netezza Corp for $1.7 billion, joining other technology giants in expansion and …

Apple owners rejoice because Napster have finally released an application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Historians among us will remember that Best Buy bought Napster for $121 million which has helped its survival in this tough climate. The NAPSTER application allows the end user to list to over …

Many people don't have enough room for a full-size PC and crave more performance than you can squeeze from a reasonably-priced laptop.  For these people, a mini-ITX system is very appropriate, compromising a few features for a much more compact system. Today we are going to look at the Intel …

It is difficult for Microsoft executives not to mention Apple when it comes to achieving sales goals and once again they target the iPad as being the product to beat. Microsoft Game Studio manager Kudo Tsunda has said in a recent interview with Gamasutra that Kinetic is going to break …

A few days ago LG CEO Nam Yong was removed from his position to make way for a new leader in the form of Kon Bon Joon. Yong's removal was due to poor smartphone sales. LG have a few smartphones available on the market which use the Android operation system …

Halo Reach is quickly becoming one of 2010's biggest success stories and latest statistics in from Bungie are certainly verifying that gamers are really enjoying the newest title in the franchise. Since the game launched 31,000,000 games have been played across the world. 78,499,560,895 credits have been earned. Campaign mode …

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced his companies new addition into the private cloud computing territory, going head to head with Hewlett Packard and IBM. The Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a system which contains 30 servers, each with 6 core processors for a total of 360 cores are interconnected with each other …

Apple's iPad has dominated the press this year, with incredible sales figures verifying that there is a huge market for easy to use, portable devices. I will hold my hand up and say I use an iPad regularly, from reading the Times newspaper every morning to playing with latest games …

Ten thousand years after the last great ice age receded (forming the Vale of Aylesbury on its way), Alan Johnson formed Cryo PC in the sleepy village of Granborough. KitGuru went to investigate. His technical team have all concealed their secret lives as ‘enthusiast overclockers’ by working real jobs in …

Today we have another graphics card from HIS to test. This time around we will be focusing our attention on the HIS HD 5830 1GB PCI-e.  This is a product that sits somewhere between the 5770 and 5850 both in terms of price and performance. Currently here in Canada the …

Harsh? Maybe. But if the battle lines are not drawn, then things will just start to get ridiculous. So what's got KitGuru so hot and bothered on this fine, warm September day? OK. It's Saturday, so we're allowed to stray from the well-trodden path of the tech gods. Out shopping …

Outspoken UK comedian (and tech fanatic) Stephen Fry is helping Sky TV to push their 3D television support with a promotional video. Stephen Fry is well known for his love of all things Apple, turning up at launch events and even interviewing Apple CEO Steve Jobs for TIME Magazine. Sky …

AMD have announced that their drivers will now be available via Valve's STEAM software package. Nvidia have yet to commit to any move – although if STEAM ratings are anything to go by it looks as if AMD dominate 87% of the Direct X 11 marketplace. Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice …

Nokia were once the outright leaders in the mobile market but in the last few years we have been watching the company weaken, every month. In the last three years their shares have fallen by 49 percent and they have dropped 30 places across 12 months in a global brand …

If, like me you rarely use an internal optical drive now in any of your system builds, then the product we are looking at today will be of particular interest. The Asus Extreme Slim DVD-RW Drive is only 14mm thick and takes all its power from the USB ports – …

Earlier this year Xigmatek released a couple of power supplies which didn't receive much coverage, but we really liked the whole ‘eco friendly' approach they were focusing on, heck they even shipped the unit in a box made from recycled materials. They have four supplies in this range, The PC402, …

Unlike weaker publications, KitGuru has no problem in planting its predictions as solid flags in cyber space. Sure, we stand to be corrected if there are errors, but we have no problem with that as we honestly believe we're right way more times than we're wrong. The latest flag has …

KitGuru has looked at a number of Arctic Cooling's products over the past weeks and they've all been impressive, winning some of our most sought after awards.  One of these products was the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (Rev.2) which proved to be a great upgrade from the Intel Stock …

Best Buy are hinting that the Apple iPad is killing the notebook market, cutting sales by as much as 50 percent. Best Buy announced earlier this week that all 1,093 of their stores in the US would be stocking the iPad later this month. They have also announced a 61 …

Sony' exhibit at the Toyko Game Show was focusing heavily on 3D as well as their motion sensor controller, called the Playstation Move. Sony's booth was crowded, with gamers eager to try Killzone 3 and Gran Tourismo 5 in full 3D. A few people commented that while the 3D aspect …

Whether you love them, or love to hate them, 2010 has been a very strong year so far from the shiny fruit maker from Cupertino. Their shares lately have been reflecting their business strength and shares closed at an all time high with an increase of $6.35 (up 2.35%). Apple's …

It was only a matter of time before this happened before launch, but it appears a chinese source on the ChipHell forums has leaked confidential slides from AMD, which were apparently given to an OEM. The Barts graphics cards will be released in the mid range sectors and will replace …

A good power supply is probably the most important part of any system build, and while KitGuru have focused recently on some seriously high end units such as the Corsair AX1200 and the Enermax Revolution 85+ 1020W, not everyone can afford these (or needs them in the first place). Today …

A 64 bit version of Flash has been on the ‘want list' of many enthusiast users for a very long time now and they will be pleased to hear that Adobe have just launched a new Flash Player with 64 bit support across all major operating systems. This is welcome …

As KitGuru predicted all the major players are starting to lose ground in the US market to the Android machine which is only starting to gain momentum. ComScore, marketing intelligence leader has published its quarterly Mobile Subscriber Market Share findings which has been tracking smartphone subscribers for three months ending …

Halo Reach is one of the best games of 2010 according to KitGuru gaming reviewer Terry Franklin. Not only that but it looks to be on track to being one of the biggest sellers also generating $200 million in the first day ! It’s “the biggest game Microsoft has ever …

A couple of days ago KitGuru reported from IDF showcasing the new upcoming AMD CPU architecture with integrated graphics. The new  APU chip, codenamed ‘Zacate' looks to be a very exciting product with a low power requirement and a high level of performance. Zacate is based on dual Bobcat CPU …

The Apple monster continues to roll and US leading retailer Best Buy are going to start selling the ipad in ALL of the US stores from September the 26th to boost holiday sales. Chris Burritt reported the information on BloomBerg and Apple's Chief Executive officer Brian Dunn said: “Expanding iPad …