When the iPhone 4S was released in October of 2011, the phone was thereafter ranked the best selling smartphone month-after-month. Ten months later, Apple's phone may have been outsold by Samsung's flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone. In the month of August, the Galaxy S3 ranked higher than the iPhone in two-of-three U.S. based carriers. American carriers,...
With Apple's win in the Samsung case during late August, they were granted around $1 billion in damages. They haven't received any cash amount yet, and will likely have to wait until 2013 before they see the money. Unfortunately for Apple (and Samsung), the case isn't sealed, they still have to undergo a December 6th hearing in...
With the sixth-generation iPhone on-tap to be announced September 12th, many competitors of the Cupertino company are trying to beat them to the chase. These fall announcements are important to companies, as the holiday season rapidly approaches they want their product to be known. This week Nokia and Motorola have announcements set for Wednesday. The former market-leaders will announce...
Here's a great Sunday read coming your way. The New York Times profiles the Samsung and its well-known copying ways; not just with smartphones but with TVs and more: Still, the [$1.05 billion] ruling reminded South Koreans of something their country painfully lacked, a shortcoming magnified by comparisons between Samsung and Apple. Although the name...
On May 5, 2010, Apple filed for "Made for iPhone" trademark with the US Patent & Trademark Office, which is commonly seen these days on third party iPhone accessories. The trademark also contains a small image of an iPhone graphic along with the verbiage "Made for iPhone", which was opposed by Samsung and Acer soon after the initial filing....
Just wow, a lot of people like to keep secrets from their boss, but this would even make me mad. Samsung executives waited nearly 4-days after they lost the patent case against Apple to reveal they lost to their chairman. Until Tuesday, he was totally unaware that the company had been defeated in the popular...
After Samsung lost the court battle to Apple, they had to pay nearly $1.05 billion in damages. That wasn't all either, the jury decided that six of Apple's patents were infringed upon Samsung. According to market growth, many Samsung device owners must be worried about the company's future. A report from the used-electronics giant Gazelle.com...
As the smartphone market continues to explode in popularity, more and more chips are required to produce devices. Bloomberg reports (as first noted by MacRumors) Apple and Qualcomm both were turned down by Taiwan chipmaker TSMC in their attempts to secure exclusive chip production, with proposals of more than $1 billion plus each: Apple Inc. and...
Samsung is still continuing with their game of stealing ideas from Apple. Today, Yahoo points to Samsung's new 'S-Launcher' dock for Windows 8 computers. At first glance, I thought it was a Mac OS X dock, and apparently Gizmodo has the same idea. Instead, this is the new S-Launcher dock 'created by' Samsung. Who is designing for Samsung, I...
Samsung sure won't leave this case without a fight. We reported over the weekend that Apple was seeking to ban 8 of Samsung's smartphones from the United States due to infringement of Apple's patents. The list of phones can be found below, and luckily for Samsung, their newest flagship phone isn't on the list. Early Tuesday morning,...
While Samsung plans to appeal jury's verdict and a damages bill of over $1 billion for copying Apple's design patents, it remains the sole supplier of micro-processing chips that power Apple's iOS devices. Hence, analysts believe that the "symbiotic business relationship between Samsung and Apple" is too important for either to put at risk (via Reuters). According to...
Soon after jury reached a verdict announcing Samsung did infringe on Apple’s design patents and it owes Apple over $1 billion in damages, Apple and Samsung both issued official statements regarding the jury's decision and now, Google has reflected its thoughts saying that it isn't worried about the outcome since “most of these [patents] don’t relate to the core Android operating system", as...
