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The ever popular YouTube website, owned by Google are in talks with Hollywood movie studios to launch a worldwide pay per view video service at the end of 2010 to challenge Apple's dominance for online digital video distribution. Google have been hard pitching to studios on the appeal of streaming …

As you know gaming on multiple monitors has been available for some time now thanks to ATI's Eyefinity technology and now with NVIDIA offering their own 3D Surround solution the competition is heating up in this area.  One area where ATI has as an advantage is that the NVIDIA setups …

iPad sales have been both a blessing and a curse for Apple – they have broken records but have been struggling to meet with the extraordinary demand. With 3.27 million iPads sold to date the demand has been higher than expected and Apple has been forced to push back release …

GPU Design have posted information from a chinese website which shows a GPU Z screenshot and a 3DMark Vantage Extreme benchmark of the upcoming Radeon HD6870 graphics card – expected to retail before the end of the year. – GPU ID: “6718″ according to codenames shown in Catalyst 10.8 driver …

KitGuru spent the weekend at Newbury Racecourse attending the UK's largest LAN gaming event, Insomnia 40 (i40).  Being gurus of kit, we were mostly interested in the hardware on show from the numerous exhibitors. First of all we had a look at Immacula's stand, displaying products from Alienbags, SteelSeries, Synology …

UK scientists have taken the first step toward helping to solve global food shortages by decoding the wheat genome, meaning they can take the DNA data to help improve annual yields. Dr Anthony Hall and Professor Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool and Dr. Gary Barker and Professor Keith …

IBM, creator of the excellent Cell Processor in the Sony Playstation 3 have released details on their newest creation, the fastest single CPU in the world, clocked at a whopping 5.2ghz. The Z196 was announced at the Hot Chip conference this week and is designed to be used in the …

The memory market is extremely competitive, with manufacturers pushing speeds higher and higher every couple of months. News earlier this week hit the KitGuru newsdesk that HyperX DDR3 from Kingston had managed to break the 3GHZ barrier. DDR4 won't be hitting the market overnight, many manufacturers feel there is plenty …

The Apple iPad has been a huge success story for Apple, KitGuru rated the device very highly indeed when we reviewed it months ago. News reached KitGuru weeks ago that Apple were planned to make a 7 inch version of the iPad to appeal to users who find the 9.7 …

HP are going to be removed from Dell's Christmas card list after outbidding them again with a $1.8 billion offer for computer storage company 3Par Inc. HP's latest bid works out 11 percent more than Dell's at $27 per share. 3Par had already accepted a $24.30 a share offer earlier …

At KitGuru we spend a lot of our time playing with high end hardware, and it can be disheartening for many readers. In the cold hard ‘real world' not everyone can afford a Core i7 980X with SLI'd GTX480's and to be honest, for most people this is totally overkill …

Here at KitGuru we understand that many of our readers won't be running the latest and greatest tech in their system yet will still be interested in squeezing every ounce of performance out of their components.  So we shall be looking at how we can improve a low-end graphics card …

Speed bumping a processor is a very natural way to refresh your range. It's the oldest marketing trick in the book, but what does it actualy buy you? In reality, it's very hard to know. KitGuru looks at the upcoming IntelCore i3 560 processor. In the good old days of …

One of the coolest gadgets we have seen in a long time has been recently released and is available from UK retailer GearZap for £59.95. The KeyCase iPad Folio has an integrated Bluetooth Keyboard and looks to be a ‘must buy' for iPad business users. This innovative product seemlessly connects …

Last night we published news on the release of Catalyst 10.8, which features many performance fixes. After looking at the atiicdxx.da_ file this morning we have seen a 35 new cards listed for support. It seems that Fudzilla also have a story up discussing this today. Going on the information …

A Russian website has revealed details about the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) which showcases the user interface – highlighting new features such as quick release tabs and a ‘Chrome' style address search bar. Microsoft have issued several developer previews of IE9 since March but they have all, to date, …

AMD have just released Catalyst 10.8 with promises of some very nice performance increases. Performance highlights: Far Cry 2: Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. Performance increases 2-4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. ·Performance increases 3-8% …

Corsair and Coolit are fighting head to head with ‘high end', yet mainstream all in one liquid cooling solutions and as KitGuru recently reviewed the Coolit Vantage we felt it was time to publish our analysis of the Corsair H70 … the successor to the class leading, and very popular …

KitGurus across the globe will be familiar with Arctic Cooling, a company renowned for producing some of the best cooling accessories on the market.  Earlier this year, they rebranded themselves to ‘Arctic' to reflect their growing range of non-cooling products. Today we are going to look at the Arctic Sound …

KitGuru was impressed with the new single slot XFX HD5770 Crossfire bundle which we reviewed last week. This bundle is exclusive to highly regarded UK retailer DABS and word has just hit the KitGuru newsdesk that they are offering a free copy of Battlefield 2 Bad Company 2 for the …

Those among you who long for the ‘biggest numbers' when buying new hardware will be over the moon to hear that Canon have announced a 120M megapixel camera sensor. The ‘APS-H' as it will be known can deliver a 13,280 x 9,184 pixel image and the CMOS sensor is so …

AMD have had a great 12 months, with the ATI division delivering the highest level of sales on the market. They also have a nice chunk of change in their coffers after a $1.25BN settlement handout by Intel. Yesterday at the Hot Chips conference held at Stanford University the company …

Rumours are rife right now that Apple are planning an event in San Francisco on September 7th, two weeks ahead of the new prime time TV season. Apple normally hold an event in San Francisco around this time, but the date this year has yet to be nailed. We have …

The Apple iPhone is one of the worlds most popular portable devices, but the release of the iPad has opened up a new world of ‘big screen' interaction which is appealing to many people. The problem is, that for many the 9.7 inch screen is just too big to carry …

At KitGuru we review a plethora of different products but it's not often that we look at things like optical drives which are reasonably homogeneous in design and don't differ greatly in terms of performance. Today we are going to look at LiteOn's latest external DVD/CD writer, the eTAU108, which …

KitGuru's often find themselves on the move with various gadgets including laptops, smartphones and MP3 players and usually have to carry around a small mountain of chargers to accompany these devices. Today we are going to look at the Innergie mCube Mini which Innergie claim to be the worlds smallest …

KitGuru has been impressed with Kingston recently – their new HyperX products are producing some fine results in enthusiast systems across the globe. When we recently spoke with Bernd Dombrowsk their Sales Director, he impressed us with his aggressive and upfront style of answering questions. News has filtered in today …

Mafia was one of the greatest games ever made, when it was released gamers across the globe embraced its combination of rich story line with Grand Theft Auto style game elements. With the successor to be released in a few days, many predict that this game alone will help push …

Apple have a fairly unifed operating system which shares similar code algorithms between the main OS X and iOS platforms. Patently Apple have discovered a patent application filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation earlier this year which points to potentially major interface changes. Apple love touch input, the iPad …

Finland's University of Oulu have made an announcement today saying that they are working with Nokia and Intel to develop a join research center to create software for 3D and virtual reality interfaces to be used on mobile devices. The cutting edge software is going to be developed by 24 …