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One of the more fascinating mornings was had by the KitGuru team today, as we hunkered down around live-feed HD screens to watch/listen/experience the wonder of privatised space flight, with the launch of the Dragon C2+ space craft in the direction of the International Space Station. KitGuru dons an orange …

It has been rumoured for a while that Verizon would enable a global setting on some of their handsets and this has just been confirmed by the American telco. Global GSM roaming will be enabled on the Motorola Droid 4, Droid RAZR, Droid RAZR Maxx and the HTC Rezound through …

The initial move on SSD pricing from SanDisk, seems to have been answered in every part of the market. Now, we're seeing the £99 ADATA SSD drive coming in at less than £80. What should we expect to see next? KitGuru gives its balls a good rubbing and peers into …

Yesterday we briefly mentioned that Samsung's S Voice application had been leaked online and seemed to be working pretty well – even with a Kiwi (New Zealand) accent. However, this may have all been in vain as Samsung has since blocked anything other than the Galaxy S III from accessing …

Pakistan blocked Twitter for several hours because it refused to remove some Tweets considered offensive to Islam. The report was fed by one of the countries top telecommunications officials. The tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims consider depictions of the …

Microsoft have said that they expect to ship 350 million Windows 7 devices by the end of 2012. They also claim to have sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses over the last 18 months. According to a report on Bloomberg, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the May 21st forum …

According to a recent StatCounter release, The Google Chrome browser has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer to take the mantle of ‘World's most Popular Internet Web Browser'. Chrome has already overtaken Internet Explorer in various parts of the world. Until recently however it has never be able to beat Microsoft's browser …

Modern, internal drives are often described as delivering 6 gigabits of data transfer a second. That's the requirement for SATA III and the latest drives deliver. So how ironic is it that Asus would begin manufacturing mainboards where the EXTERNAL connection operates at 10 gigabits per second? KitGuru gets on …

We've known for a while the Samsung is an official sponsor of the Olympic Games commencing in London later this year but until today we have yet to see any results of this. A series of pictures have been dispersed onto the internet revealing a Olympic Games edition of the …

Arctic Cooling are offering a cool deal right now. If you checkout with any MC001 Entertainment Center then you can get a $200 instant rebate with the rest of a purchase order. They are offering deals on headsets, gamepads, mice and keyboards. They sent us a press release which you …

While we can't be completely certain that OCZ has any 6′ 4″ assassins working in the sales team, Sandisk's price move on older SSD products with Dabs last week (reported on KitGuru) seems to have been followed by a strong price move on the latest OCZ Agility drives from eBuyer. …

Facebook founder and billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tied the knot with his long time girlfriend Priscilla Chan. It has been an eventful month for the young CEO after raising $16 billion when he took Facebook public. As would be expected Zuckerberg changed his Facebook status to ‘married' this weekend …

Majel has long been rumoured as the search giant's rival to Apple's Siri personal assistant service. It should become available on Android smartphones later this year – most likely in the last quarter. According to reports it will officially (and unoriginally) be known as “Assistant”. While Google has obviously not spent much …

It looks like a QA tester accidentally posted an image online of the new, tweaked controller for the Wii U. GamesRadar's Hollander Cooper said that the image was uploaded via the Twitter account of an employee at Traveller's Tale Games, who developed some of the Lego and Disney Interactive games. …

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt spoke to college graduates on Sunday, offering a sound piece of advise. Turn off their smartphones and computers and talk to a real person. Schmidt spoke with graduates at Boston University where he received an honorary degree. Schmidt said “Take your eyes off that screen …

Nokia are enjoying a raft of sales in China thanks to the release of their Lumia smartphones. They launched two new Windows Phone 7 Lumia phones, the Lumia 610C and 800C in China, in cooperation with China Telecom. Michel van der Bel, COO of the Greater China region at Microsoft …

Yahoo have decided to sell half of its stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for $7.1 billion. Most of the cash from this sale is going to shareholders. Struggling Yahoo have sold half of their percentage stake back to the Alibaba Group for $6.3 billion cash and up to $800 …

Apple and Samsung have received a court order from US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California ordering Apple CEO Tim Cook to meet with Samsung CEO Gee Sung. The general counsels of both companies were directed to join in a two day mediation session to try and settle …

When Intel began shipping the X25 SSD back in 2008, it kicked off with 32GB, 64GB and even an 80GB. When it also announced that a drive bigger than 100GB was coming, enthusiasts were overjoyed. The starting price for a sensible sized drive was around $600 (£400). Today, that has …

Typically, when a new Windows operating system is launching soon, Microsoft tempts consumers to buy that new desktop or laptop sooner rather than later. How it did this in the past was by offering a free upgrade to the new edition of Windows once it's released. According to reports, this …

An Samsung official who would love to remain anonymous in order to retain his job has revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S III unveiled a few weeks ago has had over 9 million units pre-ordered already. Samsung's latest Galaxy flagship is destined to launch later this month in the UK, but the remainder …

Samsung have lost $11 billion value, or 6 percent over a Taiwanese trade news outlet report earlier this week. The report said that Apple have started to place big memory orders with Japanese chipmaker Elpida. The relationship between Samsung and Apple is strained at the best of times, but Apple …

Hewlett Packard are considering axing up to 8 percent of its workforce, or 25,000 people to help reduce costs and to help the company deal with a drop in sales and marketshare. The enterprise services group may see a reduction in 10,000 to 15,000 jobs. The sources of the information …

Amazon may have been shrinking the size of their Kindle e-reading devices, but it looks as if they are planning to make the Kindle Fire tablet larger, later this year. According to the latest rumours it would appear that they are planning to release a 10.1 inch Kindle Fire in …

According to the latest figures from research firm Gartner, Samsung holds the top spot in global mobile phone sales. The Korean appliance giant has taken this gold medal spot from Nokia recently. Samsung stands at 20.7% of all mobile phones sold while Nokia is behind with 19.8 percent. Apple is …

There has been much confusion in enthusiast circles recently when it appeared that multitasking was ‘broken' (or modified) on HTC's Sense 4.0 user interface, which is present on their latest Android smartphones. Instead of ‘true' Windows-like multitasking that is present on stock Android 4.0, HTC has tweaked Sense so it …

We reported last week that Apple are preparing a new range of Macbook laptops, but we have received information last night that Apple will not only be upgrading the processing power, but they will be adopting Retina screens for the new range of computers. The Retina display was first introduced …

A few months ago we first reported on the rumours that Apple were planning to enlarge the iPhone screen for the next release. The rumours have been persisting since we first published the details and according to sources Apple have started to place orders for new displays from suppliers in …

We all have a friend that looks like they have just moved in. You know that they have been in that house/flat for many years, but they still look like they are in the process of arriving. We get this feeling with AMD and have done for some time. It's …

SAPPHIRE Technology has just introduced a new model in the successful HD 7000 series.  The SAPPHIRE HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition is the first card based on the revolutionary new graphics GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture from AMD to feature the SAPPHIRE exclusive and world acclaimed Vapor-X*  cooling technology. The …