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We have covered the news on the demise of the doomed HP Touchpad this week. If you want a bargain and don't mind a lack of support then you can pick them up for next to nothing. Just as the HP Touchpad becomes a footnote in tech history, Lenovo are …

NZXT has just released their latest offering in the fan controller market, The Sentry Mix.  The Sentry Mix is very similar in design to the Sentry Mesh that we looked at in back in June.  The front panel design once again simulates the look of a graphic equalizer. It is …

Reuters have published a news report quoting two unknown sources who claim that there will be an 8GB iPhone 4 released in the near future. The 8GB flash drive is being manufactured by a Korean company, although the source and manufacturing company have not been mentioned. Apple at this point …

The Hewlett Packard TouchPad was said to be a challenger for the Apple iPad, but sadly it was not to be . They ditched support for WebOS and as we reported yesterday, the tablet dropped in price to $99 in the US, causing a huge influx of sales across America. …

Forbes have issued their latest report which shows that Macintosh sales are outperforming PC sales by a staggering 22% growth. The PC market sales have increased by 4% which is actually a healthy figure, considering the state of the economy right now. Their figures show however that Apple sales are …

Visiontek are well known as one of AMD's US partners and have released a series of HD6000 series cards for entry level, mid range and high end markets. They are expanding their product portfolio and today we are reviewing their latest 8GB DDR1600mhz memory kit targeting both Intel Sandybridge and …

The Raleigh Convention Center is a match up of professional video gamers, set for this coming weekend. News has broken which claims that Epic Games are ready to showcase Gears Of War 3 to the audience. Two teams of professional gamers are going to be playing four people from Epic's …

NASA have said that the James Webb Space Telescope will cost $8.7bn to run and maintain over a period of five years, when the project is started in 2018. According to documents which were sent to the US Congress, the updated figures are $2 bn higher than the previous estimates. …

Anonymous helped to hold a protest yesterday evening, and it grew to around 200 people before winding down around 9pm. All stations were reopened shortly afterward. The demonstration yesterday forced the closure of two Bay Area Rapid Transit stations close to City Hall in San Francisco. BART police had opened …

Deux Ex: Human Revolution is one of this years most eagerly awaited games. And Kitguru Gaming has just published a review from Gaming Editor Emma Boyes. Emma has many years experience within the industry and has worked for IGN and GameSpot – she has joined the elite ranks at Kitguru, …

For years, car companies have been souping up and turbo charging their smallest vehicles. On the one hand, it seems a little crazy, but on the other hand it is hugely appealing. KitGuru spies sniffed around the Alternate stand at GamesCom 2011 and got the whiff of something meaty. Take …

MSI have just launched an all new scheme to provide exceptional value on a number of notebooks with up to £100 cashback until the end of the Summer period! Cashback is applicable on a number of notebook models, including a range of their ultimate G-Series range, aimed specifically at gamers. …

In February, we thought the Touchpad could mount a serious challenge against the Apple iPad. Sadly when it was released the product just wasn't selling, leaving retail stores with huge overstock. With the news that Hewlett Packard had cut support for the platform other stores ditched it completely. HP have …

One of the most beautiful cars ever made has just sold for $16.4 million (around £10 million) at a Gooding and Co auction. The Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa prototype was involved in the Le Mans 24 hour race and when it went on auction in front of collectors and enthusiast …

Skype are in the process of being taken over by Microsoft in a $8.5 billion deal. The latest news revolves around the upcoming takeover of GroupMe, a messaging start up company, by Skype. The financial details of the takeover have not been announced but reports via All Things Digital would …

Today, AMD  updated its awardwinning C- and E-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for ultrathin and value notebooks, netbooks, all-in-ones and desktop PCs with top of the line features. The updated APUs deliver; Enhanced HD graphics capabilities; Performance boosts with enhanced memory; DisplayPort ++ for connecting to any HDMI or DisplayPort-enabled …

According to reports in from the Far East, Apple are working with suppliers and their partners in Asia for the trial production of the iPad 3. Apple have been ordering display panels and other components in the last couple of weeks aiming to launch the iPad 3 in early 2012. …

‘All in one' watercoolers have taken the enthusiast sector by storm in the last year. Not only have units from Corsair, Antec and Coolit proved to perform very well, but they are easy to fit and leave a lot of free space around the CPU socket. Today we are looking …

It's done. AMD has lined up its new CEO and the massed ranks of Phenom followers must now wait patiently in Texan Vatican square for the lucky winner to be revealed. Ideally, the chip giant would not have been without a CEO for even a day, but – as it …

The shocking news that HP, the world's largest PC company, cannot operate in the PC market has sent reverberations throughout markets across the world. With Leo ‘the Chemist' Apotheker at the helm, billions have been stripped from the value of HP's brand – with share prices dropping around 20% on …

It would be great to say “Told you so”, but we did not actually nail this scoop on the head. KitGuru spent much of the past 2 weeks analysing the available (and unavailable!) data on the PC market and we came to the published conclusion that HP was completely and …

While most of the 250,000 people who have been attending GamesCom in the Cologne sunshine will have been there for the exceptional game play on offer, there's no doubt which were the most expensive toys on show. It was the cars. KitGuru lines up some snaps and, later, we'll ask …

Gaming is hugely popular, even for people who sit at home alone playing Angry Birds on the iPad. But the true thrill of gaming is in a competitive environment, competing for days against like minded individuals. Enter the world of the LAN event. KitGuru prepares to strain neck muscles to …

Once the undisputed brand leader in the electronic entertainment space, Sony has seen its Walkman brand totally usurped by Apple's ability to deliver high-quality, high-priced multimedia devices – while at the same time, Nintendo's portable/affordable game playing systems has moved in to own the dedicated mobile play space. What next …

In recent months we have seen a flood of Solid State Drives released, powered by the new class leading 2281 Sandforce controller. Today we are analysing the latest drive from Patriot – the Wildfire 120GB. This specific drive is using 32nm Toshiba MLC NAND, the same memory used in the …

It is that time of the month again. This time we are giving away a stunning OCZ ZX 1250W power supply which is more than enough to power even the most demanding SLI and Crossfire gaming systems on the market. Kitguru reviewed the ZX 1250W power supply earlier this year …

This whole industry is based on innovation. Like the man said, it’s not the most intelligent creature that wins – it’s the more adaptable. Having been inundated with images from the show, some of the most interesting came from Xigmatek. Let’s see what the company’s design and marketing guru, Tony …

Harvey Norman, the well known electronics retailer has instructed their stores to remove thousands of webOS powered HP Touchpads from shelves today. Hewlett Packard have announced that they are no longer producing the device. Harvey Norman's general manager of computers in Australia Ben McIntosh spoke to ZDNET and said the …

We have a soft spot for BlackBerry phones. Many of us remember the glory days, when they were leading the way, offering email support that other companies could only dream about supporting. Lately, it seems all doom and gloom for Research In Motion who are struggling to get a foothold …

With the news yesterday that Mozilla will be canning the ‘version' numbers on upcoming Firefox releases it appears that the next release (V7) is going to be the first to use new algorithms which the company are calling ‘MemShrink'. According to reports, this technology can reduce the memory overhead by …