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With so much emphasis on Intel's amazing ‘k' series chips, it's easy to lose track of the fact that most systems sold in the USA and Western Europe, actually use something that costs far less. The latest offer from Aria has drawn our attention to an interesting question, “What is …

In July last year, scientists, nerds and humanists all celebrated as one at what looked likely to be the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Or at least, the discovery of data that seemed to suggest the Higgs Boson had a shadow and we might have seen it. Since then a …

A woman who was initially arrested in 2011 for refusing to stop filming a local council meeting, has now been found guilty of libel and must pay £25,000 to the council chief, after she posted criticism of him and the local authorities on her blog. Jacqui Thomson was sent a letter by …

Microsoft have only sold 1.5 million of their Surface tablet tablet computers according to a report released this week. The sales are a combination of Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro operating system units. The low sales can be blamed partially for the limited amount of apps available for the …

In life, people walk in a lot of different directions. It's often said that a leader without followers is just a bloke taking a walk. You know you're leading when you look over your shoulder and find that the next person is right behind you – taking the same steps/turns …

Netflix are offering a pot of $100,000 to developers worldwide who show the best result when pushing Cloud computing forward. Netflix CPO Neil Hunt said “Cloud computing has become a hot topic recently, but the technology is still emerging. No doubt many of the key ideas that will take it …

Samsung are hitting the headlines all week with their Galaxy S IV flagship smartphone however behind the scenes they have introduced two leaders to help run the business. Presidents JK Shin and Boo-keun Yoon helped to showcase the new smartphone at the phone in New York last night. They have …

Twitch, the game streaming service that only appeared on the scene a couple of years ago, has just hit a new milestone, with 28 million players taking a peek at someone else's gaming action at some point in February. It wasn't just a lot of people viewing for ten minutes …

Google makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising, almost £30 billion a year in fact. However that foundation of income could be threatened, as Ebay has just produced a new study that claims the adverts people are paying for, have almost no effect on sales. “Results show that brand-keyword …

With an 8 core processor and 1080p rumoured, Samsung is promising an iconic phone. Times Square is an iconic location. This afternoon, Samsung will take over the whole square for what promises to be the biggest launch in phone history – for what Samsung hopes will be the biggest selling …

Apple have attempted to put a spanner in Samsung's flagship smartphone launch day by speaking out against Android powered products. Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller said yesterday that he believes that products which run Google Android are inferior to Apple's iPhone. Schiller shared his data on the popularity of the …

Blackberry have received a record order of 1 million smartphones from one of their partners. The company have never had a single order this size and will certainly help their financials in 2013. Slashgear reported that the company shares increased substantially after this announcement. The details of the partner were …

Online shopping is all about fulfillment. While you might spend time researching your purchase – from the time you hand over your credit card information, all you care about is getting satisfaction. One of the UK's most popular online resellers has spoken with KitGuru about its decision to upgrade from …

It's a good indication that Ebooks are becoming more prevalent in society, that they are now used by the British government as part of its collection of products that measures the current cost of modern living. They join around 700 other goods that the Office for National Statistics use as …

Microsoft's Hotmail and Outlook services went down for a big portion of the user base earlier this morning and over 12 hours on there's still a lot of people unable to access their email. While this writer has no problem accessing his old Hotmail account, the Microsoft Status page is …

While it might initially sound like something our robot overlords would use to keep track of us, fear not, as these medical “tattoos” rub off very easily if you don't want them there, but the idea behind it is to give medical staff a way of keeping track of certain …

While we might often talk about the demise of the high street video game retailer here at KitGuru, it isn't always the fault of outdated business practices. GameStop at least, can place some of its problems, squarely at the feet of one ex-vice president of corporate communications, who defrauded the …

The appointment of Roy Taylor, former nVidia VP for global graphics sales, was reported on KitGuru first. At the time, we could see the significance of AMD CSO John Byrne's team selection – but the question would remain, “How long would it take for Roy to begin impacting AMD's business”. …

Google acknowledged to state officials yesterday that they had violated people's privacy during their Street View mapping project when it collected passwords, email and other personal information. They agreed to settle a case which was brought by 38 states. Google also have to pay a fine of $7 million, which …

Despite the fact that his legal team has been denied access to the majority of evidence against him and therefore much of the supposed illegal surveillance that the New Zealand intelligence agency, GSCB gathered, Kim Dotcom has promised that there will be “interesting facts” about both NZ authorities and US …

The case of Prenda law is a relatively complicated one. We covered it a little bit recently, with links to far better run downs. However now it's all coming to a head and the judge of the case was not happy when most of the copyright troll defendants didn't even …

While it was initially thought that HMV Canada owner Hilco was the most likely to buy up HMV, it has so far only purchased the firm's major debt, leaving its future still up in the air. Now though, a new report is suggesting that Walmart owned supermarket, Asda, could be …

Lenovo may be in the market for a BlackBerry takeover, according to the Lenovo CEO. Lenovo executives dismissed the rumours two months ago however it would appear they may have had a change of heart recently. CEO Yang Yuanqing spoke with a French financial newspaper in an interview published on …

Samsung are releasing the Galaxy S IV soon, which will replace the big selling Galaxy S III. To augment the video they released earlier this month a new image has been tweeted showing part of the Galaxy S IV, partially hidden in shadow. The tweet preempts the ‘Who's ready for …

We have published several articles on the poor state of the internet in the United Kingdom, focusing recently on Virgin Media. Since we published this article last week, we have received more emails from readers who wanted to share their opinions. We pinged Virgin Media about this, and are waiting …

Amazon is usually simultaneously the darling of authors and their worst enemy. Today it's looking more like the latter however, as Amazon is attempting to buyup the top level domains (TLD) of .book, .author and .read. These aren't the only ones the web giant is looking to purchase however. It's …

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been hacked, with a media report suggesting that those responsible were from China – however the RBA has yet to release an official statement explaining what exactly happened. It is thought that those responsible were attempting to gain information about the G-20 economic …

In what is being claimed as a move to show how little interest people have in digital security, a group of hackers has placed an advert for The Pirate Bay on a billboard in the middle of Republic Square, Belgrade – the capital of Serbia. Having hacked into the system, …

Bitcoin may be a currency without much in the way of physical, real world value, but as with everyone, something's worth is defined by what someone is willing to pay for it. And apparently people are willing to pay more and more for Bitcoins, as the value of the digital …

While not every PC hardware fan is a nerd in every respect, I like to think there's a lot of crossover – as I know there is for me. One other great traditional geek pastime is reading comics, so here's a chance to try them out or get yourself a few freebies: …