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Unsurprisingly Apple and Samsung were unable to come to any agreement in court on Monday and now one of the largest smartphone legal wars will come down to the nine jury members. Instead of the typical guilty/not guilty verdict the jurors will have to answer more than 700 questions based …

Apple may be battling Samsung in their high profile court case right now, but Motorola are lining up for their second U.S. Internal Trade Commission complaint against Apple. Motorola claim that Apple have a number of products available which infringe on seven owned patents relating to wireless technology, such as …

While PCs and traditional consoles were busy focusing on how many pixels could be cinematically shaded with ultra-realism a decade ago, the team at Nintendo went in a different direction with the Wii. It was a serious wake up call to the big boys and led to products like Kinect. …

Samsung Electronics have announced today that they are planning to invest $4bn into their chipmaking factory in Austin. The goal? To improve logic chip production to meet rising market demands worldwide. The money is being pumped into the production output, handling primarily processors for advanced mobile applications. They said in …

Apple's market worth has been steadily growing over the last 10 years and their shares rose past $660 on New York's Nasdaq stock exchange last night. Their market capitalisation is now valued at $619bn (£394bn). There once was a time when Apple trailed behind Exxon Mobil ($405bn), but now they …

File locker website Rapidshare has been making headlines today, after its chief legal officer, Daniel Raimer, suggested that cloud storage websites like Rapidshare weren't facilitators of piracy at all – it's the link sites that are to blame. Of course it didn't take long for those with strong moral standings …

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has been playing up to claims that when it comes to broadband, his main interest  is speed, not coverage. He even went as far as saying that himself: “when the Lords Committee criticised me this summer for being preoccupied with speed, I plead guilty. And so …

Whether a graphic card wins or loses a benchmark battle is almost entirely down to the price that the manufacturer wants to charge for it. The actual line up from AMD and nVidia, when placed in a single column based on price, is called the product stack. KitGuru learns of …

Apple experts have said that Samsung abused their ‘monopoly power' over certain wireless patents and have demanded an unreasonable royalty from Apple for use in their iPhone. Richard Donaldson, a former patents attorney for Texas Instruments told the court that a 2.4% royalty Samsung demanded on the price of the …

The existence of a Galaxy Note successor, which recently ranked up over 10 million sales, from Samsung is no secret. It is also fairly clear that Samsung will take the veils off its next generation “phablet” at IFA in Berlin at the end of the month. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P3divJBqlI'] Not much …

Sony has today announced the Xperia SL a couple of weeks ahead of its expected announced at IFA in Germany. The Xperia SL is a minor upgrade over the current Xperia S flagship, offering a slightly faster chipset and seemingly not much else. The dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor is …

Over the past couple of years ASRock have really upped their game and are now competing with world renowned motherboard manufacturers such as Asus and Gigabyte.  We have looked at a number of motherboards from ASRock recently and none of them have failed to impress.  So when they offered us …

The Curiosity Rover recently landed on Mars and has now fired its laser beam at Martian rock, with over 30 pulses across a 10 second period. NASA issued the statement from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles. The pulses from the robotic science lab deliver more …

Have you ever been out for a romantic dinner, only to be continually disturbed by the sounds of text messages and phone calls from other tables in the restaurant? I have even seen some people taking pictures of their meals to upload to Facebook, just before they eat. A restaurant …

Working under licence to one of the world's most famous brands is, without doubt, a game of swings and roundabouts. You need to balance the instant recognition that your new product launches will gain – against the pain of following guidelines where the merest hint that you have strayed – …

While Apple sells the world on a dream comprised of 50 shades of grey, the hardcore modders among you will crave something a little different. Over at GamesCom 2012, a large section of Hall 11 has been dedicated to the past (retro gaming), present (extreme sports) and the future (experimental …

While every game company spends big to make its stand more attractive than the next, the marketing people who create GamesCom exhibits are not shy of using plain, old-fashioned biology. Here's a second selection of the booth babes being used to pull punters on to stands. Don't worry ladies, you …

While experts on CNBC spent much of last Wednesday night discussing how likely it was that America would slip into a disastrous 2nd recession in 2013, after the presidential elections, Cologne was gearing up for the first public day of GamesCom 2012. KitGuru operatives sent back some cool shots that …

Google is continuing to update its social network API, this time adding the ability to private message your pals when you're in a Hangout. This brings the Hangout API to version 1.2, not only making it possible to communicate without others listening in, but also integrating new video and sound …

Copyright lobby group the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has just released its 2010-2011 tax report and its revenue streams are not looking strong. Membership dues from music labels have dropped considerably, leaving the organisations with less than $30 million in revenue – almost half that of the year …

Are you yet to adopt a shiny new Solid State Drive? Are the prices and small sizes still holding you back? There has never been a better time to pick up a new SSD, especially this weekend thanks to a promo offered by Kingston on Ebuyer. Ebuyer are offering the …

In the latest Apple vs Samsung news from the Californian court, judge Lucy Koh has put her foot  down, seemingly due to the fact she wants to see this trial come to a close – and not run on for another year or two. Today, Apple presented the court with …

You either loved or loathed Steve Jobs, but one thing most of us agree on – his unorthodox style of leadership certainly worked well. He often seemed to rule the company from the heart, and a story which was posted online yesterday seems to verify his love for music, and …

Back at Google I/O in late June, it was announced that Smart App Updates were coming to the Play Store and that time has come. The latest version of the Play Store (3.8.15) which will gradually roll out to users includes this functionality. Smart App Updates can be best explained …

Following on from our report yesterday, it looks as if other Microsoft partners may ditch their plans to produce Windows RT tablet computers. Toshiba have already pulled out which has set the industry wheels in motion as other Microsoft partners analyse the potential for ‘failure'. Sources in Taipei who we …

The very public court case between Apple and Samsung continues to claim headlines, and the latest statement from a financial expert paints a rather negative picture of Apple. He said that Apple has overstated Samsung's profit margins on mobile products. Witnesses for Samsung have testified that Apple should have to …

John Browett, Apple's senior vice president of retail has admitted to employees that they made mistakes with the staffing levels, which led to unfavourable reports that Apple were cutting employees. Browett took command of Apple retail stores in April and they apparently tried a new staffing formula which caused some …

Legally embattled owner of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has secured a minor victory in New Zealand, after the High Court backed up an earlier decision by Judge David Harvey, who stepped down earlier this year after making impartial comments relating to the case. Mr Dotcom and his legal team will be …

A new codec from the Moving Picture Experts Group (Mpeg) known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) could allow for vastly reduced file sizes for movies and videos – by as much as 50 per cent if claims from the group are to be believed. The potential for something like …

Kingston are at GamesCom this week and they have announced their latest HyperX Predator memory, targeting the gaming audience. “The PC gaming market is robust and growing and we are pleased to contribute to that market with our new, more aggressive HyperX Predator memory kits,” says Anne Keefe Regional Director …