Tag Archive | "Samsung"

Samsung’s Super Bowl Galaxy Note commercial goes after Apple fans

Sunday, February 5, 2012

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Steve Jobs once said, with regard to smartphones, that “”if you see a stylus, they blew it.” Apparently Samsung disagrees with that sentiment. During today’s Super Bowl – great game by the way – Samsung unveiled its latest commercial, this time for the upcoming Galaxy Note which features, you guessed it, a stylus. And making [...]

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Samsung sold slightly more smartphones in 2011 than Apple

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Apple this past quarter shipped a whopping 37 million iPhones, setting a new quarterly record as iPhone sales grew 128% year over year. The achievement was enough for Apple to slightly edge out Samsung with respect to smartphone sales during the recent holiday quarter. A few days ago, Samsung reported shipping 36 million smartphones as [...]

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European Commission to investigate Samsung’s abuse of RAND patents

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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Well it seems that Samsung’s strategy of suing Apple for allegedly infringing RAND patents is coming back to bite them in the ass. Foss Patents reports: The European Commission just announced that it has “opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has abusively, and in contravention of a commitment it gave to the European Telecommunications [...]

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German Court rejects one of Samsung’s asserted 3G patents

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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It’s hard to keep up with all of the legal entanglements Samsung and Apple are currently embroiled in. The two companies have legal proceedings in-play across 4 continents and in over 10 countries. One of the busiest jurisdictions with respect to Apple and Samsung’s ongoing legal dispute is Germany where Apple achieved some success in [...]

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Samsung goes after Apple fans, again!, in new commercial

Monday, January 23, 2012

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In addition to going after Apple in the legal realm, Samsung isn’t pulling any punches with its advertising campaign either. Samsung a few weeks ago kicked off a new campaign that attempts to portray Apple fans as fad following lemmings who blindly and moronically stand outside of Apple stores ready to purchase the latest Apple [...]

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Apple sues Samsung in Germany over “slide to unlock” feature in Galaxy Nexus

Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Apple’s certainly keeping its lawyers busy. The Cupertino-based company filed yet another lawsuit against Samsung in Germany last week. This time around, Apple alleges that Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone infringes upon Apple’s “slide to unlock” feature which first debuted on the original iPhone back in 2007. The feature was officially granted patent protection in the [...]

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Apple files new lawsuits against Samsung in Germany

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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It looks like Apple’s ongoing legal feud with Samsung is going to get worse before it gets better. Apple and Samsung are already embroiled in patent litigation across the globe, and as the battle for smartphone marketshare becomes fiercer, so too do the legal battles. Apple this week filed separate lawsuits against Samsung in Germany [...]

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Samsung reports record quarterly profit on strong mobile handset sales

Saturday, January 7, 2012

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Who says there’s no money in ripping off the IP of other companies? Bloomberg reported yesterday that Samsung reported record quarterly profits, thanks in no small part to its immensely popular line of Galaxy smartphones. And for the first time in company history, Samsung’s total number of mobile phone sales surpassed 300 million units. “The [...]

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Samsung’s Galaxy Ace Plus is a blatant rip off of the iPhone 3GS

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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By John Hiesler: Samsung’s smartphone and tablet strategy, which seemingly consists of copying Apple at every turn, continues to get deeper by the day. After looking to Apple’s iPad ads for “inspiration”, it was revealed this past weekend that a new Galaxy Tab ad uses the exact same actress who prominently appeared in a recent [...]

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Samsung even steals iPhone ad actress for its Galaxy Tab commercial

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Taking the “let’s copy Apple” motif to an entirely new level, we reported last week how Samsung’s latest ad for the Galaxy Tab is eerily similar to ads we’ve seen for the iPad 2. But now it seems that Samsung has even outdone itself. The girl starring in Samsung’s ad just happens to be the [...]

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Samsung now takes to copying Apple’s iPad commercials

Friday, December 30, 2011

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Samsung can make a helluva TV set, but when it comes to smartphones and tablets, the company apparently has no scruples. In addition to copying many features of the iPhone and iPad, the Korean based electronics giant has now taken to copying elements from Apple’s iPad ads and inserting them into their own. Clearly, Samsung [...]

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iPhone 4S sales in Europe slowing down due to slowing economy – Report

Friday, December 23, 2011

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No doubt aided by a build-up that took a few more months than expected, the iPhone 4S stormed out of the gate with a vengeance this past October as Apple sold over 4 million units in just the first weekend the device was on sale. Following that, CEO Tim Cook said during Apple’s October earnings [...]

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Samsung handset shipments top 300 million in 2011

Friday, December 23, 2011

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Despite a slew of Android manufacturers in the marketplace, the bulk of Apple’s Android related efforts center on Samsung. While certain Android manufacturers like Motorola and HTC arguably put their own spin on Android, Samsung’s implementation is seemingly copied part and parcel from Apple’s iPhone. In doing so, Samsung’s mobile division has soared to unprecedented [...]

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Apple injunction against Samsung Galaxy 10.1N in Germany doesn’t look promising

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Bloomberg reports on a German court ruling which held that Apple will not likely achieve a ban on the Samsung Galaxy 10.1N tablet, a modified version of the Galaxy Tab that was released after Samsung’s original 10.1 Galaxy Tab device was banned in Germany for infringing upon the design of the iPad. The Dusseldorf court [...]

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Apple’s A5 chip – Made in Texas

Friday, December 16, 2011

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Reuters reports: The A5 processor – the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics, according to people familiar with the operation. One of the few major components to be sourced from within the [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S II ad makes fun of Apple users… again

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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In an effort to drum up sales for the Galaxy S II, Samsung a few weeks ago released a commercial poking fun at Apple fanboys, mocking the somewhat unique-to-Apple dynamic of waiting in line for hours on end in anticipation of a new Apple product. Taking things further, the ad comically painted Apple fans as [...]

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