A jury has ordered Samsung to pay US$290 million to Apple for infringement of several of its patents in multiple Samsung smartphones and tablets. The verdict, reached on the third day of deliberation by the eight-person jury, is less ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Patent Battle
For China Mobile executives, it seems like just yesterday that the mobile carrier was the only game in town. The company, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, dominated the industry for most of the past decade. With ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G Services
Most mobile phone users have never heard of Tizen. Neither have car owners or anyone with a fridge. Samsung Electronics Co. wants to change that. The South Korean electronics giant is in a quiet push to make its Tizen operating system a ...
The latest round in Apple and Samsung's bitter global battle for supremacy in the more than $300 billion smartphone market begins Tuesday in a courtroom a few miles from Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters. In courts, government tribunals ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Electronics
As the mobility innovation pool continues to run suspiciously dry, today brings another couple of wacky tidbits from two major technology firms. The first is a reported "curved glass" screen from Apple which, according to a Bloomberg ...
Tags: Apple, Curved Screens, Motorola
Mobile connected devices may make life easier for consumers in the long run, but today they present a bundle of user headaches, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday. Smart homes, Internet-connected cars and wearable devices represent ...
Smartphone subscriptions will triple and smartphone traffic will increase by a factor of 10 between the end of this year and 2019. By that time about two-thirds of the world’s population will be covered by LTE, according to a report ...
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Devices running Google’s Android operating system accounted for 81% of all smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2013, according to a study released today by IDC. Of the more than 261 million units shipped, just under ...
Tags: Google, Android, smartphone, ship
While the impact of Apple’s iPhone is obvious to anyone who follows the tech industry, attorneys took a California jury back to the phone’s 2007 unveiling to remind them of the device’s importance. Wednesday, Apple and ...
Apple’s global marketing chief has told a court how his firm’s job became much tougher after Samsung launched its own smartphones with a similar design. Schiller told an eight-person jury that Samsung’s infringement of ...
Chinese handset maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartwatch next year, making it the latest company to throw its hat into the emerging gadget segment. ZTE said on Monday that it was preparing the device, and pointed to the first quarter ...
Tags: ZTE, launch, smartwatch
Although, mid and large sized LED backlight market was affected by the economic downturn, LED prices for backlight applications overall declined stably at 3-6% in 4Q13, according to LEDinside’s 4Q13 LED price trend report. LED prices ...
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China-based smartphone vendors Huawei and Gionee Communication Equipment will follow the steps of fellow company Xiaomi Technology to market smartphones online with aggressive pricing, a move which is expected to heat up competition in ...
A Victorian coroner has ruled there were no systematic safety faults with the Volkswagen Golf being driven by a woman who died in a crash in Melbourne in 2011. Coroner Heather Spooner said there was no evidence that the 2008 Volkswagen ...
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Samsung recently revealed another big smartphone called the Galaxy Round. It looks great.Very polished. Spec-wise it's about on par with other top-tier handsets, but its most curious and defining feature is that its edges taper slightly ...