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Apple have released the gold master edition of OSX Lion to developers, just before the official launch in the coming days. The operating system should be launched some time in the next 10 days and will only be available for download on the Apple store. Apple have been praised for …

If you have just purchased a new laptop, the next peripheral on the ‘to buy' list is generally a protective carrying case or a stand/cooler. For those people who have just bought a sexy superportable laptop, they certainly won't want to be carting around a bulky stand. The review product …

Holly Bligh, a 9 year old girl with a genetic condition called albinism which effects her eyesight, sent an email to Steve Jobs, and was stunned to get a reply in the space of a few hours. An uplifting local editorial piece by the Herald Sun in Australia reported on …

The Apple and Intel ‘Thunderbolt' co venture seems to have gotten off to a good start, with early tests showing a 12TB Raid Array able to write 700 MB/s to a notebook. Firewire 800 was left trailing in the dust. Anand Shimpi, one of the industries most famous site owners/reviewers …

Samsung and Apple have a fairly strained relationship right now, which is being highlighted by Samsung's request to stop the US from importing their goods. The problem revolves around a dispute over iPhone and iPad devices and a patent dispute. Samsung said in a statement on Thursday that they had …

Apple can do no wrong in recent months. Both the iPad 2 and MacBook Air have been generating a massive level of income in recent months. The buzz on the streets is that OSX Lion is going to rock the Mac user community by offering a more streamlined interface, incorporating …

Kitguru reports earlier this month of a new MacBook Air update, seem to have been close as giant retailer Best Buy have put a hold on MacBook Air orders, which would indicate that Apple are about to release an updated version of the big selling laptop. According to information on …

At the weekend, it can be interesting to get a hold of marketing research and company financials – it looks like Matt Richman has been busy doing some profit calculations. Earlier this month Peter Misek of Jefferies and Company indicated that Mac gross margins were hovering around 28%. When we …

Comscore released a report which shows the popularity of the iPad within the growing tablet market. According to their report the iPad is responsible for 89 percent of all tablet traffic. The iPad seems to have a strong audience in Canada where it accounts for 33.5% of all non-computer related …

I admit it, I own several Apple Macintosh computers. Before you all send me hate mail however – in my defense I am a child of the Unix era, and find that OSX suits my needs more than Windows. I don't game much, and I like the robustness of the …

Apple are going to be releasing a new AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule. Information was leaked by an unnamed source to 9to5Mac. The new part numbers are : • MD031LL/A AIRPORT EXTREME 802.11N (5TH GEN)- USA • MD032LL/A TIME CAPSULE 2TB (4TH GENERATION) USA • MD033LL/A TIME CAPSULE 3TB (4TH …

Apple are a company continually in the spotlight and recent figures from DisplayBank indicate that they are responsible for 84% of all 9.7 inch displays which were sold last month. Apple use two main suppliers for their iPad screens – Samsung and LG. These companies combined delivered 4.5 million of …

Generally when Apple are mentioned, people discuss the runaway success of the iPad, but recent predictions from J.P. Morgan indicate that Apple would turn the Macbook Air platform into a $3 billion a year business with the release of the iCloud software. Mark Moskowitz wrote in a note to investors …

News just in from the interwibble indicated that Apple is in the process of instigating 1984-style controls on what you can do and when you can do it with an iPhone. Big brother is watching you – and preparing to zap you with evil infra-red rays. KitGuru steps into room …

Apple and Nokia have been locked into legal wrangles now for years over patents for the mobile phone sector. Apple are agreeing to pay Nokia licensing fees which will be a huge cash revenue boost for the Finland based Nokia. This deal is going to settle all the patent litigation …

Microsoft haven't had the best launch for their latest Windows Phone 7 operating system, but they might take some comfort that the latest IDC WorldWide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report indicates that they could surpass Apple's iOS platform by 2015. IDC are making predictions that Android will have 43.8 percent …

Well another day, another legal wrangle. This time iCloud Communications are suing Apple over the ‘iCloud' trademark. iCloud Communications offer VoIP products and services which use the same centralised server principle as Apple's service. The complaint says “The goods and services with which Apple intends to use the ‘iCloud' mark …

Apple have called a stop to the delivery of some iPad 2's due to a manufacturing glitch, according to sources in the industry. These iPad 2's were on route to Verizon Wireless for shipments to customers later in the week. The problem from what we hear was a identity code …

The UK is always behind the USA so this won't come as much of a shock to many readers today. Apple's iCloud service won't launch in the UK until early 2012. A spokesman from the Performing Rights Society issued the statement saying that negotiations with Apple about rights in the …

Ever since Apple implemented the App Store on their mobile devices, iOS has becoming a serious contender in the portable gaming space.  There are a huge number of games available on the app store from racing games to FPS games so there has never been a better time to buy …

Cupertino City Major has given his full support for Apple's new campus in the city. Gilbert Wong said “Cupertino is ready for this.” KitGuru reported on this a few days ago and Steve Jobs will be very happy that his plans can go ahead. Their new building will be able …

Right now, the buzz word is ‘iCloud'. Many tech minded people reading this will already be groaning. Why? Well it seems that no matter what Apple do, it always gets saturated in the press, even if the technology is actually not new. iCloud has met with a huge level of …

Apple are feeling the pressure from Android and they are going to accelerate their iPhone and iPad release schedule to 2 times every year, according to Adnaan Ahmad of Berenberg Bank. Obviously, Kitguru can't confirm this, and we haven't heard anything from our sources in the industry, but the news …

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has presented the companies plans to build a second campus in Cupertino, California which could hold 12,000 Apple employees. The current campus at One Infinite Loop holds around 2,600 employees. Jobs said “Apple's grown like a weed. And, as you know, we've always been in Cupertino. …

Apple have announced a new update for their iBooks application. V1.3 for the iPhone and iPod and iPad gets a new read aloud function for specific childrens books and unlike alternative systems, it actually uses a real narrator's voice rather than a computerised speech enabled method. By selected ‘enhanced ebooks' …

Steve Jobs is one of the tech industries more dynamic speakers and he received a standing ovation from the 5,000 Mac faithful after his presentation at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Jobs has not been well, and he looked thin and rather poorly on stage, although he never mentioned his health …

A group of German jokers decided to pose as construction workers – targeting the Apple store in Hamburg, Germany that is currently being built. They used a ladder to climb the fascia outside the building and then stuck a huge Windows logo to the side of it. The logo wasn't …

Kitguru has reported on recent events which led to the shutdown of the iPad factory. Recent updates show that the polishing workshops are back online. This is good news for Foxconn, but Kitguru is hearing from insiders that the relationship between Apple and Foxconn is very strained right now. Foxconn …

Apple have been battling the ruthless makers of OSX malware tool MacDefender. They issued a patch to stop users from accidentally installing it, and several hours later the malware makers issued an update to bypass it. Apple are keen to ensure that their user base isn't under threat from this …

Apple released a new security patch yesterday to stop the dreaded MacDefender malware that has caused a plethora of issues for Macintosh owners. Only a short while later however a new version was released which bypasses Apple's security patch. The trojan is incorporated within a pkg file called mdinstall – …