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Samsung not worried about Apple entering the TV market
With everyone anticipating Apple’s foray into the HDTV market, Samsung – the global leader in HDTV shipments – isn’t worried at all. At the company’s European Forum in Prague, Samsung AV product manager Chris Moseley told pocket-lint that when it comes to HDTVs, superior image quality is what matters most. Consequently, Moseley isn’t worried at [...]
Continue reading...Apple pens letter to European Standards board, seeks consistency in FRAND licensing
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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As you all know, Apple has for many months now been involved in ongoing legal disputes with both Motorola and Samsung regarding various smartphone technologies. While both sides are wielding patents against one another, there’s an important difference between the patents being asserted by Apple and those being asserted by Samsung and Motorola. The patents [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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