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Samsung: Apple Pushed Expert Witnesses to Change Their Minds
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Samsung accused Apple of improperly influencing expert witnesses on Monday, following the amendment of an expert report delivered to the Korean company's legal......
The Samsung Galaxy S III Leaks Again, Is This Sammy’s iPhone 5 Fighter?
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2011 was huge for Samsung. 2012 needs to be even bigger. Last year, Samsung showed the mobile world that they could produce world-class handsets and a proper ecosystem with the confines of Android. But now, in 2012, Samsung needs to demonstrate that they have staying power. And if several recent...
Apple's iPhone Has Sony Style, Says Samsung
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Apple’s “revolutionary” iPhone design wasn’t an original creation, but a derivative one, and the company is just as much a “copyist” as it alleges Samsung to be. That’s one of the central arguments the Korean company will make against Apple when the pair’s patent trial kicks off next week. The...
Samsung will unveil 'next Galaxy' phone at May 3rd event in London
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The Galaxy S III, though it's not being called that by Samsung, will be launching on the third of May this year at a Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in London. That's the word from Tweakers.net, who've received an official invite from the Korean company to "come and meet the...
IDC crowns Samsung the biggest phone maker by shipments for Q1 2012
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Research firm IDC is reporting that Nokia has been dethroned as the world's biggest phone maker by Samsung. In the first quarter of the year, Samsung shipped 98.3 million mobile phones, with Nokia and Apple in second and third place. In the smartphone space, the Korean company shipped 42.2...
Apple and Samsung drop claims against each other but disagree more than ever on key issues
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Late on Monday by local time, Apple made a filing in its first California litigation with Samsung that offers a truly impressive narrowing of its infringement claims in that action, roughly cutting them in half, and five hours later, Samsung offered to drop five of its 12 asserted patents but...
Samsung To Reveal The ‘Next Galaxy’ Phone On May 3 At London Event
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After months of waiting (not to mention plenty of conflicting reports), Samsung may have finally revealed when they plan to unveil their long-awaited Galaxy S III. According to a press invitation that has been making the rounds since early this morning, the Korean company will be pulling back the curtains...
Samsung adds 20.3-megapixel NX20, NX210 and NX1000 to mirrorless cam lineup
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You probably know Samsung best as the mobile tech giant that it's exploded to become. The Korean company has also unleashed a blockbuster television or two in the past few years, along with some of the most gorgeous tablets to come out of the Far East. One area where...
Despite the iPhone’s monumental Q4, Android still powered 50% of all smartphones sold
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Despite selling more than 35 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, sales of Android handsets more than doubled those of the iPhone, as the Android platform grew to hold 50% of the smartphone market, a new report from Gartner reveals. Apple and Samsung were the biggest contributors to the smartphone...
Judge Koh stops US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1, puts a smack down on Samsung
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Thought Samsung was out of the woods when it defeated Apple's attempt to prevent it from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 stateside? Well, Apple appealed that decision and was given a second crack at banning Sammy's slate last month -- and it looks like Cupertino made the most of...
LG's 55-inch OLED TV priced just under $8,000 for May launch
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LG stole our hearts at CES this year with its amazing 55-inch OLED TV and now it's about to make a play for our wallets too. The Korean company has announced, as reported by Maeli Business, that it'll host another big launch event for its superb HDTV at the...
Samsung mass-produces 4-gigabit LPDDR2 memory, aims to make 2GB a common sight in smartphones
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Samsung started making 2GB low-power mobile memory last year, but as the 1GB-equipped phone you likely have in your hand shows, the chips weren't built on a wide-enough scale to get much use. The Korean company is hoping to fix that now that it's mass-producing 20-nanometer, 4-gigabit LPDDR2 RAM....
How Samsung is eating western Europe's mobile phone market
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Apart from the Korean company, only Apple is managing to thrive, while Nokia has seen its share of both featurephones and smartphones dive since its announcement of the shift away from Symbian.As a followon to Wednesday's piece about how the smartphone is taking over the mobile phone market, here's some...
Samsung’s Galaxy S and SII pass 50m combined sales, Galaxy Note reaches 7m
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Just days after the release of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, Samsung has released sales figures for earlier models of its Galaxy line, announcing today that combined (channels and distributors) sales of its Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones have exceeded the 50 million mark globally. In...
Apple's Opening Court Statement Focuses on Samsung's Radical Shift in Phone Design
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While court documents filed in relation to the high-profile U.S. legal battle between Apple and Samsung have yielded a treasure trove of images of prototypes and concepts for iPhone and iPad designs, the court case is just now getting underway. Reuters reports on some of the early developments today, including...
Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Samsung execs this week to discuss patent issues
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Ordered by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California, Apple CEO Tim Cook and top-ranking Samsung executives Choi Gee-sung and Shin Jong-kyun met in the US on July 16, with the view to putting an end to the numerous patent lawsuits currently being fought across the world. The...
Apple wins EU-wide ban on Galaxy Tab 7.7; Tab 10.1N not covered
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Samsung has taken another hit from Apple in Europe thanks to an appeals court in Germany. The court ruled on Tuesday morning that the Galaxy Tab 7.7 indeed infringes upon Apple's design patent for the iPad, and banned it from sale across the EU. The Galaxy Tab 10.1N, however, managed to...
Samsung posts record quarterly profits of $5.9bn, reportedly sold 50.5m smartphones
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The figures for Samsung are in and the Korean technology giant reported impressive second quarter profits of $5.9 billion (6.72 trillion Korean won), a record for the company. The bumper figure represents a 79 percent increase on its performance one year previous, and total revenue rose 21 percent to reach $41.7 billion (47.60...
Nokia loses mobile top spot. What does it have left?
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Fourteen years after it became the world’s most popular handset maker, Nokia has finally been eclipsed — pushed down into second place by Korean rival Samsung. According to data from iSuppli, the Finnish shipped 83 million mobile phones around the world in the last three months — nine million fewer...
Samsung Galaxy Tab models don't copy Apple's iPad, says UK High Court
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Samsung has bagged itself another courtroom win over Apple after the High Court of England & Wales ruled that three of the Korean company’s Galaxy Tab models were “different” from Apple’s iPad products. Eager to share the ruling, Samsung issued a full statement to Pocket-lint, detailing how the designs of the Galaxy...
Can a Better Screen Finally Produce a 3-D Tablet Worth Buying?
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Though reasonably popular in the movies, electronics makers are still struggling to convince the masses that 3-D technology is worth using in the real world. The technology has been built into everything from cellphones to TVs and laptops, but remains largely a niche in each category. MasterImage 3D, a Korean...
Samsung Unifies Its New Smartphone
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Samsung Electronics is revealing U.S. launch plans for its Galaxy S III smartphone for the U.S. market. It will be the Korean company's first top-of-the-line phone to use the same name at all four U.S. national wireless carriers....
The Hague to Samsung: no injunction for 3G patent infringement if Apple's willing to FRAND license
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Since it's been more than 24 hours since the last bit of news in the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple, we figured you could do with another litigation revelation. Late last year, the Hague shot down Sammy's request to prevent iPads and iPhones from being sold in...
Samsung Bid Against Apple Hits Setback
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A court in the Hague said Samsung Electronics can't pursue injunctions against Apple for infringing standards-essential patents so long as it appears willing to negotiate license agreements, the Korean company said....
Samsung grabs record 26% market share, after shipping 93m smartphones in Q2 2012
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Fresh from posting record earnings of $5.9 billion, smartphone maker Samsung has grabbed another first after its global mobile market share reached a record 26 percent, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The Korean company, which overtook Nokia at the top of the mobile pile in the last...
Samsung crashes the iPad HD party, files another suit against Apple in S. Korea
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Samsung, with some purposeful timing right before the iPad HD launch event later today, said it has filed another lawsuit against Apple in a South Korean court over the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. The Korean company filed suit against Apple on Tuesday, saying that the Apple devices above...
Apple must announce that 'not as cool' Samsung tablet not a copy
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A British judge raised eyebrows last week when he ruled that Samsung’s tablets did not infringe Apple’s patents because they were not as “cool.” Now, the same judge has followed up with an unusual order that Apple must put a notice on its websites for six months and in U.K....
LG’s Hefty Optimus Vu Released In Korea, World Tour To Follow?
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Remember LG’s squarish, Gingerbread-powered Optimus Vu smartphone? The Korean company’s new handful debuted at this year’s Mobile World Congress, and thanks to its… ahem… unique industrial design, it turned its share of heads on the show floor. But will the ability to cause people to do double-takes translate into real...
Samsung Hires Hint at New Chip Focus
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Samsung Electronics is a major maker of processors that power cellphones and other mobile devices. But some observers think the Korean giant’s recent hiring point to another possibility–chips for server systems. The Korean company has been staffing up a research and development center in Austin, Texas, recruiting engineers from U.S....
Samsung rejects Apple claim that it deliberately copied iPhone
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Apple lawyer tells California jury that Samsung chose to imitate iPhone 'because it was easier to copy than innovate'Samsung deliberately chose to duplicate Apple's iPhone because "it was easier to copy than to innovate," a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant told a jury Tuesday.The claim came in Apple's opening...
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