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The struggling Research In Motion have released a new Blackberry in India, targeting the budget oriented audience. They hope that the new phone will help raise revenue for them in this growing market. The Curve 9220 is nothing special when compared against a raft of smartphones in the Western market. …

Recently we held a competition for one lucky reader – for the opportunity to review an upcoming ADATA product. Ian Stevenson won the competition and today we present his independent'reader review'. Today we’ll be taking a look at the 750GB DashDrive Durable HD710 portable hard drive from ADATA. This external …

Facebook are said to be targeting a May 17th date for the initial public offering, according to TechCrunch, who reported via unnamed sources familiar with the company. Federal regulators may now need to review Facebooks recent $1 billion acquisition of mobile photo sharing startup Instagram. Sources from the New York …

Powercolor have just announced their latest graphics card – the Go! Green HD7750, which features a totally silent cooling solution. Regular readers will remember that we already reviewed the silent Sapphire HD7750 Ultimate Edition some time ago. Silly name aside, the Go! Green is clocked at 800 mhz core, and …

You come home to find that the government has re-organised your house, painted the walls pink and the grass purple. Oh, and by the way, we've re-organised the rooms for you as well. Nice. So what happens when people don't want these decisions taken for them? Facebook fightback group T-Remove …

Against a back drop where even Intel's profits are down 13% in Q1, the pressure to offer value is on everywhere – and KitGuru readers can benefit from these cuts. Following the drop in 7950 pricing that KitGuru reported last week, we are now seeing substantial movement at the top …

This one came as a bit of a surprise when it was first noticed in our news feeds overnight; Apple and Samsung will reportedly participate in settlement talks. The two mobile giants have agreed to meet in San Francisco within the next 90 days after the judge presiding over two …

As much as we would love to think Google's Drive cloud storage service will be a Dropbox killer, we still have to wait until it launches to know for sure. Our questions should be answered very soon though, there are reports that Google Drive will launch next week, possibly as …

The iPad may be one of the greater success stories in the last decade, but for Microsoft it is proving a royal pain in the side. Microsoft are working closely with Intel to support their first tier vendors with the goal of decreasing the global market share of the iPad. …

We received this email today, asking for our support, and we felt it was certainly worth sharing with our readers this morning: Right now, the US is poised to pass a new law that would permit US agents to spy on almost everything we do online. But we can stop …

Fans of the Halo franchise will be pleased to hear that the latest outing featuring the predominately green Master Chief is due to launch on November 6th for the Xbox 360. The game will be set four years after Halo 3 and the new game will focus on Master Chief …

If Microsoft could go back in time and fix mistakes, then alongside the late move to creating a decent browser, no doubt it would also want to reduce how many versions of Windows Vista it put onto the market. While Apple offers ‘products with an operating system that just works', …

Acer have listed the Iconia Tab A510 tablet on their website, for $449.99. UK buyers will have to wait a little longer however as the UK store has yet to list the product for sale. This ‘Olympic Game Edition' has been released to celebrate the upcoming event in London, and …

You may not have heard of Silver Power before, but when they approached us with a fanless power supply for review, we were intrigued. Not only that, but it is a modular design with 80 Plus Certification. Today we find out if it is a good first choice for a …

When all nVidia did was graphic chips for graphic cards, there was always a decent amount of production capacity available in the world. Now that it's busy pioneering in the phone sector – the numbers have caught Jen Hsun's gang out. They need more and they're gasping for it. KitGuru …

Google had problems yesterday with their GMAIL service and they have yet to reveal the issues which affected around 5 million people. Google have been proud of their uptime, breaking records of 99 percent since 2007. The service was down for 2 percent of the audience yesterday, totaling around an …

There are a number of ways around an organisation's attempts to block the flow of information to customers about future product releases. But there's always a way around such blocks. Channel sources have confirmed that UK retailers are planning out store space for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S …

Even though Nokia's Lumia series of smartphones are undoubtedly the best Windows Phone 7 smartphones, European carriers are still not overwhelmed by them. Reuters has been asking four major mobile telecom carriers about the Lumia series and have reported that they walk away unimpressed, even going as far as saying that Windows …

Ever since Asus launched its Transformer Prime tablet back in December, users (including yours truly,) have experienced very noticeable GPS problems. Well, it turns out that beautiful aluminum shell does a pretty good job of blocking high frequency radio waves such as GPS signals. Last week it was revealed that a …

We have reported before on the rumours that Apple will be releasing an iPad Mini later this year. Our guy in Taipei – Yong Lei has been hearing murmurings now via some of his industry contacts now for many months. It looks as if Chinese portal NetEase has been hearing …

TSMC are having problems delivering enough chips on the 28nm process and this means that Nvidia and a few other companies are having to use other sources to maintain production. We checked with sources last night in Taipei and we were told that Nvidia are working with Samsung on their …

Nintendo are planning to release a brand new Mario Bros game for the Wii U platform at the E3 trade show in June. Mario is Nintendo's most important figure and it makes sense for  them to release another game featuring the porky Italian plumber. While many gaming fans are a …

Lately there has been a noticeable increase in the number of PC chassis on the market with relatively new brands like Corsair and Bitfenix expanding their ranges rapidly to cater for a wider range of consumers.  Silverstone has been established in the PC case market much longer, though, and already …

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. “The Actual U.S. Navy Needs Video Game Hackers!” Ever think the word “hacker” would look good on your …

The Chinese phone manufacturer known as Meizu may not be that well known but they do offer up some mighty tempting smartphones. Last year Meizu revealed the MX and said that it was to be available in both dual core and quad core versions. While the dual core version has been available …

We've all read the story: Famous footballer commits a crime against his club's honour and ends up being fined a few thousand pounds. Well it seems that the FCC over in the US of A has gone even further into the land of the ridiculous. KitGuru pulls out the trusty …

One of the biggest court cases in tech history begins today in San Francisco. Oracle is suing Google for $1bn claiming it violated several patents and copyrights. Oracle who inherited the intellectual properties of Java when it took over Sun Microsystems in 2009 claim that Google’s Android operating system infringes …

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Samsung Electronics are reportedly trying to persuade Intel to launch its DDR4 memory supporting server platforms ahead of the planned 2014 scheduled release date. According to inside sources Samsung are citing concerns that making DDR3 chips are now unprofitable due to low prices. Currently only Samsung and Hynix Semiconductors have …

Apple are due to update Final Cut Pro X with new features. The Final Cut Pro X 2012 update includes: Multichannel Audio Editing Tools Dual Viewers MXF Plug-in Support RED camera support Larry Jordan, video consultant and trainer met with Apple before the 2012 National Association of Broadcasters show and …