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Asda and Amazon drop Wii U pricing by £50

Wii U

If Asda was the vanguard of the Wii U price drops, then Amazon was the main. While the supermarket chain might have beaten the online retailer to the punch, dropping its price by £50 before anyone else, Amazon wasn't far behind, announcing a similar price drop soon after. This means …

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Modder makes SimCity playable offline

SimCity

SimCity has been causing problems for gamers since release. Whether it's the always-on DRM, the restrictive city sizes, the god awful AI, or the fact that for days players weren't even able to connect to the main servers. Some of these issues have been fixed, but you can still only …

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Win Tomb Raider 2013 and BioShock Infinite!

Are you waiting to get hold of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

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Apple say Android phones are inferior to iPhone

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 …

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Blackberry land 1 million smartphone deal

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 …

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Aria cancels City Link for poor service – appoints DPD

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 …

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Ebooks now included in cost of living measure

Ebook

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 …

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Hotmail still down for some after 12 hours

Outlook

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 …

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Xi3 admits Piston isn’t official Steam Box

Piston

Valve came out earlier this week and claimed there was no official relationship between it and mini-Piston PC creator, Xi3 and that ultimately the miniature machine wasn't a Steam box. While initially taken aback by this announcement, Xi3 seems to have collected itself now and it has agreed, the Piston …

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Would you wear a temporary medical data tattoo?

Medical tattoos

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 …

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Gamestop executive sentenced to four years for fraud

GameStop

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 …

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Win Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider 2013!

Are you waiting to get hold of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

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Roy Taylor and Never Settle impacts nVidia

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”. …

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Dropbox release new Desktop client

Dropbox have rolled out a new desktop client, adding new features into the taskbar oriented software package. This marks the eight time that the company have updated their code this year. This version (2.0) has received an overhaul with extra functionality. There is an enhanced Dropbox menu which alerts the …

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Android tablet shipments to surpass iPad

Android fans will be rejoicing to hear that Android tablet shipments will be passing Apple iPad this year, for the first time ever. Research house IDC say that Android will be claiming more market share in 2013. Android tablets are made in a variety of sizes and shapes, however Apple …

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Google admit privacy breach

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 …

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Copyright troll in deep trouble with judge

TrollHunter

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 …

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Marvel bringing weekly comics to mobile

marvel

We learned yesterday that Comixology had made available over 700 comics to those that got hold of its app and downloaded them before the early hours of Wednesday morning – so you still have a bit of time – and now Marvel is getting in on the mobile comic action. …

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Could the PS4’s GDDR5 give it an edge over PCs?

PS4

While I'm sure the PC fans among you will be ready to tear this news piece's comment section to threads, there are others who might disagree with you. One such man is Avalanch founder Linus Blomberg, who believes the GDDR5 will give the PS4 a real edge. While I've argued …

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Asda could be buying up whole of HMV

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 …

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Sore arms? get the levitating BAT wireless mouse

Well it isn't often we can show pictures of a mouse that is floating without attachments above the desk, but Kitguru reader Anshul Sood alerted us to a Levitating computer mouse which seems to have been designed at the close of 2012. The mouse is made from ABS plastic and …

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Lenovo hint at BlackBerry buyout

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 …

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Samsung tweet tease Galaxy S IV picture

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 …

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Readers bitch about Virgin media UK broadband

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 …

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Amazon angers authors over domain name buyups

Amazon

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 …

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