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A German court has ruled in favour of Motorola, claiming that Microsoft have infringed two patents which are owned by Motorola. The German state court in Mannheim have upheld the Motorola complaint on patent ruling and have said that Microsoft are now liable for damages. No amount of money has …

The Z77 platform has been in full flow now for almost a month and Intel partners have been releasing a variety of motherboards for the 3rd generation of Intel Core processors. Recently we reviewed a prototype of the latest Kingston HyperX Genesis 2666mhz memory and today we are looking at …

The Asus Padfone was, and still is regarded as a very unique device. After all, it is a smartphone, tablet and laptop hybrid. Launched at Mobile World Congress in late February, expectations were that it would launch sometime in April. April has been and gone and the only Padfone news …

Motorola Mobility, while better known in the finanical section of the newspaper for its merger with Google has today released its earnings for the first quarter of 2012. During this period they had a net revenue of $3.1 billion and a operating loss of $86 million. This loss was primarily …

Sony have released their first ultrabook – the stunning looking T11 and T13. They are planning to release this next month fully loaded with a Sandybridge Core i3 processor. The machine won't feature the latest 3rd generation Intel Processor, but the Core i3 2367M processor should pack a mighty punch. …

Apple face an inquiry in the United Kingdom after advertising 4G support from their latest iPad tablet. The Advertising Standards Authority have widened their search according to the BBC. It appears that the regulator are not happy with Apples advertising for the iPad and their subsequent claims to comply with …

Apple's iPhone has been riding high on the American market, with the latest reports claiming that it now has taken 30.7 percent of the smartphone market, and 14 percent of the mobile market in Q1 2012. comScore released their quarterly data report from the MobiLens Service yesterday. While these figures …

Research In Motion are facing critical mass, as declining sales and an extremely competitive market continue to cause issues for the Canadian smartphone maker. Much of their future success is riding on their upcoming operating system, otherwise known as BlackBerry 10. The first incarnation of the operating system was unveiled …

Today we are taking a look at the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H, the latest Z77 motherboard targeting the mainstream enthusiast audience. This board is built for overclocking and stability using the 3D power system with Auto Voltage Compensation. Is this an ideal board to shortlist for your next system build? Over the …

It comes as no surprise that the smartphone market is growing at an impressive rate, but some numbers to back up the obvious to always pleasant. The global smartphone market has grown by 42.5% in the year ending Q1 2012, while the overall mobile phone market has declined 1.5% according …

Huawei was the first manufacturer to launch a Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet late last year and the tablet in question was the seven-inch MediaPad. Fast forward six months and it is one of the first tablets to get its own Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. The 330 MB update …

Nokia have been dislodged from the top spot by Samsung in Q1 for the first time ever in the phone sector. Samsung shipped 92 million phones in the first quarter, compared to 83 million from Nokia. According to IHS iSuppli however Samsung are in second place behind Apple in the …

The gaming industry has changed in the last year, with more people becoming sucked into the cheap ‘casual' mobile gaming sector. Angry Birds Space is the latest success story, breaking new records. They claim that the game has been downloaded 50 million times in 35 days. Rovio announced on their …

The UK High court has ordered that British ISP's place a block to famous file sharing site ‘The Pirate Bay'. The UK court has sided with the music industry as they are forcing UK Internet providers to block all access to the file sharing website. This latest order is following …

Having acquired the world’s best publishing software with WordPress and the voice over IP leader with Skype, Microsoft is now kicking off its slippers to get into bed with Barnes and Noble. KitGuru peers under the covers to see where the glow is coming from. With a $300m investment, Microsoft …

Samsung has kept its Galaxy S II successor under veil rather well, so far we have only seen it hiding in an outer shell and a few other unconfirmed but certainly possible bits of information. Now today a possible press shot of the Samsung Galaxy S III has arisen. Update: The image …

Since their release of the Dark Rock series of CPU coolers, Be Quiet! has made quite an impact on the high end CPU cooler market.  Their products have a reputation for combining fantastic appearance with great performance.  We have looked at a number of their products in the past, all …

No matter what the underlying technology, all of us spend at least part of the day thinking about electricity. Even if it's just “Where the hell did I leave my phone charger?”, it's always there because we know that a lack of juice will cut us off from the world …

We have come to expect a new version of windows every 4 years and this being the 4th year since the launch of Windows 7 we are again expecting the new version to launch somewhere in October, but will the launch of the next generation of Microsoft’s OS kill sales? …

A new report issued claims that Apple use subsidiaries in Ireland and the Netherlands as part of a strategy to enable them to cut their global tax bill by billions of dollars every year. The Associated Press issued the news today after The New York Times published information on how …

I have never personally traveled further than Australia, being based down New Zealand, and as you might have heard we always seem to get the stiff arm when it comes to pricing of technology and games. As a result of this the Australian Government is looking into the issue and invitations will …

The Biostar brand doesn't have a massive presence in the UK, at least not in the enthusiast segment of the market.  We consider Asus, ASRock and Gigabyte to be the top three enthusiast brands on the market at the moment but this is something Biostar are looking to change with …

Nvidia announced their upcoming GTX690 at the weekend, which they are saying is the fastest video card to be released to the consumer market. Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang announced this at the Nvidia Game Festival in Shanghai. The design looks rather impressive and we can imagine that companies such …

Launch any improvement, to any product, and the first question most intelligent people will ask is, “OK, so what's different?”.  For CS6, the powers that be at A-do-be have decided that a flood of Webinar options is the way to go. KitGuru gets a new GMail account just to sign …

Steve Wozniak is known to get around a lot in regards to the smartphones he regulary carries around with him. Last year he picked up the then-flagship Samsung Galaxy Nexus and earlier this month he got himself a Nokia Lumia 900 that runs on the Windows Phone 7 platform. In …

Scanning Adobe's sites for official launch dates is a bit like searching for the vegetarian special in Gaucho's. While there might be one, you're unlikely to find it. Similarly, when you search the online stores for CS6 Master Collection etc, then it's an equally thankless task. Thankfully, KitGuru is a …

Few memory companies have been pushing the boundaries as hard as G.Skill over the past 2 years. Following the launch of its latest TridentX modules, G.Skill has decided to celebrate with an easy to enter competition. KitGuru goes to a high street jewellers to play with some clocks. If you've …

As the new Intel processors sweep through the publications and channel, we find ourselves in that twilight world where the new king is putting on its crown, while there's still a few heatbeats left in the old one. KitGuru does a quick scan of the on line retail offers and …

While a double first in any set of track-n-field events this summer will mean that the victor is lauded, applauded and smothered in gold and kisses, going early with some of the latest processors might not achieve the same result. Certainly not in the Swindon/Portland areas. Purely by chance, we …

Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru, the technical lead of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has spoken out, voicing his opinion of the very long waits many Android users face for updates. Following Samsung, Asus and HTC, Sony has recently launched an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Tablet S …