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The newly refined BackPack 2 is a brilliant shelf for your Mac that stores laptops and hard drives
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The original BackPack was like many Twelve South products in that it was an incredibly obvious product produced with a high level of polish. Adding a shelf to the back of your Mac to store hard drives and other knick-knacks may have seemed like a no-brainer, but the BackPack was...
Samsung angers judge by sending media rejected evidence in Apple trial
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The Apple vs. Samsung trial was always destined to be a circus, but Samsung's already causing trouble on the first day: Judge Lucy Koh is furious that the company sent the press rejected evidence after the court had overruled repeated attempts to introduce it at trial. Samsung has been...
PC makers falling further behind Apple, says Canalys
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PC makers have their work cut out for them over the next 12 months. To compete with the iPad, PC makers need to add touch to ultrabooks -- but that adds cost. [Read more]...
Apple cites Samsung doc as proof it wanted to copy iPhone
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Apple enters into evidence a 2010 Samsung document that comparing the features and deficiencies of the Galaxy S1 relative to the iPhone. [Read more]...
Android Is Crushing Apple In Smartphone Shipments Worldwide (AAPL)
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Android is dominating Apple in smartphone shipments on a global scale. More than 100 million of the 158 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the second quarter ran on Android, according to the latest data from Canalys, which means Android captured 68.1% of the market. Apple, the next highest on the...
Apple's legal tactics won't keep competitors at bay
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Apple will have a hard time bringing Samsung, HTC, Motorola (now Google) and others accused of being Apple copycats and patent violators to their knees. [Read more]...
Low yield rates for in-cell touchscreens may affect Apple's next iPhone
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Apple could feel the squeeze from display makers for the launch of its next iPhone, as yield rates for the in-cell touch panels Apple is rumored to adopt are said to be too low to generate profits....
CHART OF THE DAY: Even At $21, Facebook Is Still Overpriced (FB, AMZN, LNKD, AAPL, GOOG)
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Facebook's stock has crashed since it was priced at $38 for its IPO. It's trading at $21 a share right now. If all the smart institutional investors were willing to dive in at $38 a share, then at $21 a share it has to be a screaming buy, right? Not...
The Google-Free iPhone
techcrunch.com
When the iPhone launched in 2007, there were three key components of the device that relied on Google. 1) Maps 2) YouTube 3) Web search Let’s look at that list today, following the news that YouTube has been given the boot in the latest beta build of iOS 6. 1)...
The Vergecast Special Edition: Apple vs. Samsung is live today at 5PM EDT / 2PM PDT / 9PM GMT / 10PM BST
www.theverge.com
It's time to talk lawsuits. There's so much going on in the Apple vs. Samsung trial but we don't want to hijack the regular Vergecast every week — so we're going to do Vergecast Special Editions for the next month or so. I'll be joined by our own courtroom...
The Vergecast Special Edition: Apple vs. Samsung is live today at 5PM EDT / 2PM PDT / 9PM GMT / 10PM BST
Apple investigating iPad Smart Cover with secondary display
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Apple has shown interest in creating an iPad Smart Cover that would act as a secondary touchscreen display for the device, showing simple status messages or even acting as a full-fledged touch keyboard....
Who killed YouTube on the iPhone -- Apple or Google?
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The YouTube app will no longer come standard on iOS. That's exactly the way Apple and Google want it. [Read more]...
Apple, Samsung U.S. smartphone sales jump 43 percent
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The top two smartphone players saw their combined sales in the U.S. rise 43 percent last quarter, while sales for other vendors dropped 16 percent, says NPD Group. [Read more]...
Apple's iPhone 4S drops to $149 with Sprint
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With little brouhaha, the cell phone carrier slashes the price of its iPhone 4S by $50. Some might say this means a new device is on the horizon. [Read more]...
IDC: Apple's still king of the tablet hill with 68 percent of the market
www.engadget.com
IDC's cabal of statisticians, nerds and people who just love spreadsheets have handed down their latest document about the state of the tablet market. Of the 25 million slates shipped in the second quarter, 17 million of them were iPads -- giving Apple 68.2 percent of the market. Samsung...
Google's Chrome tailors itself to Apple's Retina Display
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Been wondering when Chrome was going to support Apple's Retina Display? Wonder no more. Also, Google throws a few more features into the latest Chrome release. [Read more]...
Apple And Twitter Are In Talks To Integrate Twitter With iTunes (AAPL)
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There was lots of speculation over the weekend that Apple might invest in Twitter after a New York Times report came out last Friday saying the two companies had been in talks about it. The Wall Street Journal quickly refuted the rumor, noting that these talks happened a year ago....
iPad grabs more than 70 percent of China's tablet users
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Apple's tablet captured a 72 percent chunk of China's tablet market in the second quarter, says a new market report. [Read more]...
The Sony device Samsung claims inspired Apple's iPhone
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Judge for yourself: Does this look like something Jony Ive might have copied? FORTUNE -- The biggest drama on the first full day of Apple v. Samsung -- the high-stakes patent infringement case being played out in a packed San Jose federal courthouse -- was the release to the press...
Conan finds Samsung guilty
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On the Conan O'Brien show, it seems clear who between Samsung and Apple is the party that deserves to go down. [Read more]...
Samsung Galaxy Nexus eludes sales ban...for now
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As the Apple v. Samsung trial heats up, an appeals court has extended the delay on a sales ban on the Nexus smartphone. [Read more]...
Samsung May Release An 11-Inch Tablet That Has A Retina Display Just Like The iPad
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Samsung may still release its rumored 11.8-inch tablet this year, according to court documents uncovered by The Verge. The documents are part of the legal battle between Samsung and Apple. The tablet's screen is said to have a screen that rivals the resolution of Apple's iPad. We first heard about...
Samsung on Its iPhone-Envy Memo: Nothing to See Here, Move Along
allthingsd.com
Samsung says a seemingly inflammatory document entered into evidence Tuesday in its patent trial with Apple isn’t a gun at all, let alone a smoking one. In a statement given to AllThingsD this morning, a company spokesperson said the document is a “typical competitive analysis,” something “routinely” performed by companies...
Conan O'Brien draws attention to Apple vs. Samsung dispute in video parody
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Comedian Conan O'Brien opened his monologue last night with a video spoof of the Apple vs. Samsung dispute, bringing even more publicity to the case that has already been deemed the "patent trial of the decade."...
iPhone Caused "Crisis of Design" at Samsung (Memo)
allthingsd.com
At the end of Monday in week two of the Apple v. Samsung case, a damning internal Samsung e-mail was admitted into evidence — an e-mail containing charged language from JK Shin, Samsung head of mobile communications. In the e-mail, Shin described the difference in user experience between Samsung and...
Samsung Goes Public With Excluded Evidence to Undercut Apple's Design Claims
allthingsd.com
Denied the opportunity to make the argument in court that the design of the original iPhone was derived from Sony concepts, Samsung has decided to make it in the court of public opinion. Moments ago, the company released two batches of evidence excluded from the trial currently occuring in San...
Projectbook is the iPad productivity app for the disorganized
gigaom.com
Keeping your personal and professional documents in the cloud so you have access to them everywhere is on it’s way to becoming standard practice: it’s why Google, Apple now have their own cloud storage solution for users. But what if you’re on the fence about committing to the cloud but...
Samsung to Apple: It's not copying, it's competing
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In an opening statement in its case against Apple, Samsung says similarities between its devices and Apple's are due to the competitive nature of the electronics business. [Read more]...
iPad, MacBook torpedoing ultrabook sales, says analyst
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Apple is throwing a wrench into the ultrabook works. The iPad has consumers' attention in the mid-range, while MacBooks own the high end. [Read more]...
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