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Apple Grabs Yet Another Patent Win Against Samsung In UK

A London court has invalidated Samsung's assertion that some Apple products infringe on its patents, granting the Cupertino giant yet another patent win against its arch rival, ZDNet reports. The Judge ruled that Apple's products do not infringe Samsung's patents around the ability to send and receive information from a device over a 3G network. Judge...

Samsung’s Patents War With Apple Has Amplified Its U.S. Lobbying Efforts

According to a report published by Bloomberg, Samsung has increased its U.S. lobbying expenses by a factor of six i.e $900,000 last year from $150,000 in 2011, in its efforts to influence the federal government on its ongoing patent infringement lawsuits with Apple. The report also points out that the South Korean electronics giant has recently hired Sony...

Samsung Buys 3% Stake in Sharp for $110 Million

Turns out Apple cannot distance itself totally from Samsung when it comes to its supply chain. In the battle to raise funds, Apple's supplier Sharp has agreed to sell a 3% stake of its business for $110 million to Samsung Electronics Co., the Wall Street Journal reports. (more…)

Samsung Issues A Public Apology For Plant Acid Leak Incident

Back in January, a maintenance contractor who was called out to fix a hydrofluoric acid leak at a Samsung plant in South Korea, died after being exposed to the lethal gas. While the company had issued a statement, promising a thorough investigation into its cause, it has formally issued a public apology today over the incident, reports Engadget....

New Samsung Wallet App — Déjà Vu?

Samsung has unveiled its Wallet app during a developer conference at the Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The app allows users to store things such as event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards, and coupons in one location. Do these features sound familiar? (more…)

Samsung Launches iPad mini Competitor, the Galaxy Note 8.0 [PICS]

Samsung has announced the launch of its Galaxy Note 8.0 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, which looks to take straight aim at Apple's iPad mini. This new tablet sports an 8-inch TFT display (running 1280 x 800), will run Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, a 1.6GHz Eynos 4 Quad processor, 2GB of RAM,...

And the Most Reliable Smartphone in the World is – the iPhone [Study]

Along with being the most popular smartphone, the iPhone is also the most reliable. After looking through data from 722,558 combined problem reports of the world's leading smartphone models, Apple was found the most reliable smartphone manufacturer – nearly 300% better than the worldwide leader Samsung – community-based troubleshooting resource FixYa (via BGR) reported on...

Latest Samsung TV Ad Targets the iPhone, BlackBerry [VIDEO]

Samsung has released another TV ad to target the iPhone and BlackBerry. The 30 second clip details a scene in an office where one worker is talking about reducing "redundancies" in the office, yet is called out when she is carrying both an iPhone and BlackBerry. The reason for using two phones is because no...