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Is the Apple iPad 3 too small for you? Then Toshiba may have the answer if you want a supersized tablet – in the shape of the Excite 13. The Excite 13 is a huge unit which may bring portability into question, however they feel there is a market for …

The products that leave Foxconn's factories are some of the most desirable in the world, yet the Chinese manufacturing giant has struggled to create a brand of its own. After years of pushing various ideas around without solid commitment, it looks like a strategy may have been set by Terry …

Research In Motion have had a dismal fiscal year, according to an analyst who filed a report yesterday. Peter Misek, an analyst at investment banking firm Jefferies said in a note to clients that when factoring in operating costs and inventory charges the hardware division have spent 4 percent more …

We're not sure why TSMC likes to call its production facilities ‘GigaFabs', but it does. The ground has now been ceremoniously broken for the expansion of GigaFab 14 and the race to open the new plant begins. KitGuru dons a protective helmet and adjusts its tool. Fresh from the success …

Intel has today announced a reference design for a 7 inch tablet as part of its Intel Learning Series initiative. The tablet will be known as the Intel Studybook and will retail for between $199 and $299 and multiple editions will be available by summer ahead of the new school …

It's been discovered that Nokia's Lumia 900 is now available for pre-order in the UK as of today with availability expected to be “in the coming weeks”. It is possible to place your pre-order through Phones4U or Carphone Warehouse. While Nokia still hasn't committed to a specific time of release, …

Lenovo has teased one of its upcoming tablets via a YouTube video, the IdeaPad S2109 which runs Android 4.0 ICS and sports a 9.7-inch display. The video gives a good look at the tablet which is just 8.9mm thick and uses an alluring gunmetal unibody case. The 9.7-inch display equals …

A leak through Chinese channels not only further engrains previous confirmation that NVIDIA has a dual-GPU based GeForce GTX 690 in the works, but also lets a few more details out the bag on the specs front. This upcoming dual-GPU wielding weapon will be based on the 28nm GK104 silicon …

Here is one thing that can be filed under the “pointless but somewhat cool” category; phone booths in New York City will soon be receiving “smart screens” in order to gain a higher purpose in life. During the initial pilot program beginning next month, 250 phone booths across the city will …

Nokia has recently stolen the Windows Phone limelight due to its string of successive Lumia series launches across the world, but let's not forget the other players. To some people's amazement, Nokia was not the first to have a Windows Phone 7 handset out and about in the market. HTC, Acer, LG …

It's hard not to love Silverstone. Sure there are a lot of companies out there who produce a greater diversity of chassis design – and then sell them in higher quantities – but Silverstone's quality is impeccable. Technical Marketing guru, Tony Ou, opens up the company's latest creation for your …

If your company teeters on the brink of the abyss or suddenly finds itself riding the revenues rocket because you're in the right place in the right industry at the right time – then you're going to be posting different financial results. The unscientifically calculated gap between Qualcomm's increase and …

Samsung has been the leader of the Android smartphone world for over a year now with their market-leading smartphones such as the Galaxy S and its consequent successor, the Galaxy S II. However their lower end phones have never overly impressed me; so can the Samsung Galaxy xCover (also known …

While Samsung has been rubbing its corporate hands together with glee at an overall increase in memory prices, some companies are still working hard to deliver value for UK enthusiasts. KitGuru does a quick price check and discovers some interesting results. If you're building an AMD Fusion system, then faster …

Real might have started life as a simple player, but over the years it has grown and developed in new and varied ways. Some have been successful and others less so. But today, it's board will be patting themselves on the back, because they have just picked up a nice …

Just 3 years ago, HTC was the industry's darling. It had moved from clunky old designs to a a sleek new range of phones and was adding in ‘smart' by the bucket-full. It's just announced a 70% drop in first quarter profits. So what went wrong? Before 2007, you could …

We have reported before on the 4G problems that affect people in the UK and Europe. It looks as if the British Advertising Watchdog are going to investigate Apple however because of the misleading marketing campaign. Apple will be investigated over claims that the new iPad offers 4G connectivity, which …

Samsung's upcoming “thinner, flexible and unbreakable” AMOLED displays will from now on be known as ‘Youm'. The quietly named display technology hopefully means an imminent launch from the Korean company. Estimates from Samsung in the recent past indicate a launch sometime in 2012. Samsung has passed an application over to …

Back in January 2008, Intel posed a question to scientists, “What would you do with a million quad core processors?”  While no one is offering to deliver and install a million chips to a single destination, the idea of a huge, distributed computing system has appeal. Folding@Home project is set …

Famous hacking group Anonymous have targeted the UK government, after giving them forewarning that it was going to happen. It selected Easter for the protest. The Telegraph reports “The British branch of Anonymous – a loose global collective of computer hackers who often target law-enforcement websites – first advertised “#OpTrialAtHome” …

Information on Nvidia's next generation Tegra 4 chipset has been leaked on VR-Zone. The new chipset will apparently run between 1.2ghz and 2.0ghz and it will use the same 4-PLUS-1 configuration as Tegra 3, but with less ARM A15 cores. There is going to be three A15 versions, according to …

An Intel engineer has been accused of stealing documents from the company which are said to be worth between $200 and $400 million. The former employee has admitted his guilt in stealing the documents and is now awaiting a sentence. He has pled guilty to five counts of fraud. The …

It appears as if announcing six phones in the lead up to Mobile World Congress just wasn't enough for LG, among them was the LG Optimus 3D Max. LG is reportedly preparing a new flagship Android that will be up against the HTC One X and Samsung's currently unannounced but highly anticipated …

Ever since Asus' Transformer Prime was released to the masses late last year, owners have been complaining about GPS and to an extent Wi-Fi performance. A later breakdown revealed that the a design issue was the cause. The Prime has a aluminum body, with no plastic RF window, behind which …

Today we are looking at the latest system from UK etailer, Overclockers UK. The Titan 8500i Vortex is a special configuration for the Gadget Show Live in Birmingham and features a Core i5 2500k processor with liquid cooler, Gigabyte Z77 motherboard, SSD drive and Sapphire 7 series graphics. Overclockers UK …

Intel have a busy month in April, launching their 3rd generation processors within a couple of weeks time. Today however they release their much awaited Z77 platform, with a raft of motherboards hitting the market from all their partners. Under NDA we have to wait until a later date to …

Today we are lucky enough to get our hands on a set of the new SteelSeries Fnatic 7H headphones. Team Fnatic are considered one of the top ranked professional gaming teams on the planet. The fact that members of team Fnatic are involved in the design of this headset should …

Around 10 years ago, a bunch of threads kicked off on science forums around the world, with boffins (pro and amateur) discussing the idea of a computer-based Einstein in the future. A decade ago, most of the contributors thought that the answer was in some kind of amazing new layout …

For the most part, memory is one of the most mundane components in a modern PC. Word is reaching KitGuru of a spike in issues with Corsair. How are the problems manifesting themselves and what will be the effect? KitGuru scans the forums for answers. Go back far enough, to …

Once upon a time (maybe 50 years ago), China was a technologically and financially backward nation – while Japan was surging ahead as one of the world's engineering centres of excellence. KitGuru takes a look at Japan's Elpida memory company and the likelihood that it will be owned by Chinese …