Samsung Electronics has alleged that three recent products from Apple, including the iPad mini, infringe on its patents. The South Korean company said in a filing Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ...
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Samsung is set to become the biggest cell phone maker in the world this year eclipsing Nokia, which has held the title for 14 straight years. Samsung will end the year with a 29 percent share of global shipments, up from 24 percent in ...
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A court in California has denied Samsung Electronics a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, and also refused Apple a ban on the sale of some Samsung products. A jury decided in August that the South Korean company must pay Apple ...
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Samsung's Galaxy Grand smartphone has a 5-in. screen -- but the big display seems aimed at those with smaller budgets, according to an analyst. Screen sizes around 5 inches have so far mainly been found on expensive high-end phones with ...
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More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
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Sony said Wednesday that its new mobile gaming platform, which will allow "PlayStation-like" games to be played on third-party Android devices, will launch this fall in nine countries. The company said that its PlayStation Mobile has ...
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Apple's patent license agreement with HTC will not be put entirely under seal, except for the pricing and royalty terms, a court in California ordered in a patent infringement lawsuit between Samsung Electronics and Apple. Judge Lucy H. ...
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Mobile network operator Orange will install Lookout's Mobile Security application on some of the Android-based tablets and smartphones it distributes starting in 2013, aiming to protect millions of subscribers in the first year alone. ...
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Nokia has been knocked out of IDC's list of global top five smartphone companies by mobile devices firm RIM. IDC has been running its Mobile Phone Tracker report since 2004, and this is the first time Nokia has slipped out of the ...
During a recent visit in Taiwan, Greater China President of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Markus Borchert, said NSN will enhance partnership with Taiwan’s manufacturers on the 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Time Division LTE ...
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Google has expanded its legal agreement with developers working on Android applications to specifically prohibit them from taking any action that could lead to a fragmentation of the operating system. The prohibition was added to the ...
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EE has launched the UK’s first superfast 4G broadband services for consumers and businesses in 11 cities. EE 4G services are now available in Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, ...
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Google's next smartphone, the Nexus 4, will have a 4.7-inch screen and start shipping on Oct. 30, according to U.K. retailer Carphone Warehouse. The follow-up to the Galaxy Nexus, which was announced in October last year, is widely ...
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Microsoft has won a third victory in Germany over Google's Motorola unit in the ongoing patent wars between the two companies. A German court ruled that several Motorola tablets and phones infringe a Microsoft patented method for apps to ...
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HTC claimed a patent victory over Apple in the latest legal battle in the ongoing smartphone patent turf war. In a London court yesterday the judge ruled that HTC had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own and ...
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