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European Union regulators handed Amazon a victory after accepting Apple’s and four other publisher's settlement offers to ease pricing restriction, thus marking the end of the antitrust probe into eBook prices, Reuters reports. (more…)

In an interview published today by MIT Technology Review (Via The Verge), Samsung's chief strategy officer, Young Sohn, admits he uses Samsung products at work, but he is an Apple fanboy at home. (more…)

According to a report by CNET Australia, Samsung is setting up another marketing ploy against Apple by showing off its maps app in a new ad campaign. The following photo has been taken from Samsung's campaign, showing an SUV besides a tent and other camping equipment and a board that reads "Oops, should have got a Samsung Galaxy...

A letter signed by Apple, Cisco, Intel, Research In Motion and Samsung among others, has been sent to "key lawmakers" urging the Congress to provide more airwaves for smartphones and tablet computers, reports The Hill.  The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly working to implement a law to auction some TV stations' airwaves, called spectrum, to cellular...

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down to talk about Android, Apple and the mobile market in a Bloomberg interview. Based on the most recent market studies, Schmidt rushed to compare Android's position to Microsoft's expansion in desktop software back in the 1990s. (more…)

Apple will present its television set in 2014, said Marc Andreessen (Via BusinessInsider), adding his voice the the hype around the Apple iTV. (more…)

Apple may take over TomTom, the Dutch supplier of navigation apps, at least according to a Rabobank International analyst who claims he has knowledge about a takeover bid, Bloomberg reports. (more…)

For the first time (just after Samsung, obviously, but that's a bit different story), an Apple supplier not only disagreed with Apple on several FRAND questions, but also openly attacked it in an official document. Yeah, it's Qualcomm, Apple's baseband chip manufacturer. (more…)

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is testing numerous television set designs with its Asian component suppliers: Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test several TV-set designs, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the U.S. company is moving closer to expanding its offerings for the living room. Officials at...

Will you be Christmas shopping online this year? If you are looking to order items from Apple online, below is a list of holiday shipping times for 2012 from Apple.ca. Apple notes midnight deadlines for both free standard shipping (left column) and expedited shipping (right column) options if you want your order delivered by December...

Digitech Image Technologies has filed a lawsuit claiming Apple is violating a powerful Polaroid patent -- the one that beat Kodak in court in 1986 regarding the “instant camera”  -- now in the ownership of the Newport Beach California-based company, Patently Apple reports. (more…)

While Hon Hai's CEO Terry Gou expressed his thoughts about Foxconn putting a million robots to work across factory assembly lines back in June, we didn’t see any public information about progress. Now, however, the WSJ (Via The Verge) reports the automation process has already begun: a win for technology over cheap labor. (more…)