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Samsung Electronics Co.’s chief executive officer will talk with his counterpart at Apple Inc. to see whether they can resolve their smartphone patent dispute before a U.S. jury begins deliberating, according to a person familiar with the matter. The companies’ lawyers will report to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in federal court in San Jose, Continue Reading →

Microsoft is reportedly well aware that pricing its entry-level Windows RT tablet at $199 will push its vendor partners out of the market, but it might launch the device at that remarkably low price point anyway. Citing multiple unnamed sources from notebook vendors, Digitimes on Thursday reported that Microsoft’s hardware partners are very worried about Continue Reading →

The Apple v. Samsung patent trial of the century has cooled off a bit since the hits poured out last week, but a few choice items continue to emerge from San Jose, California. Samsung argued earlier this week that whether or not its Galaxy tablets made use of Apple’s protected technology and designs, that IP Continue Reading →

As expected for quite a while, Samsung has just announced pricing and availability for the Galaxy Note 10.1. As you may have guessed, it’s a 10-inch WiFi tablet that includes the somewhat-pointless-but-perhaps-maybe-kind-of fun S-Pen, the same pressure-sensitive stylus you see with the Galaxy Note. Packing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (with an update to Jelly Continue Reading →

Samsung has seen tremendous success in recent history, and 2012 has been nothing short of stellar for the consumer electronics vendor so far. The company’s sales hit $42.2 billion in the second quarter this year, topping rival Apple by a healthy margin, and its profit of $4.6 billion was up nearly 50% year-over-year. So how Continue Reading →

Customers who bought Samsung’s Android phones since 2010 may not have been as confused as Apple says, according to an internal survey released on Tuesday evening as evidence in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung trial. Apple conducted the survey and published it internally in January of 2011, as noted by CNET. The goal was to Continue Reading →

Windows RT – based on Windows 8 – is the first desktop operating from Microsoft that has been developed from the ground up for touch-screen devices i.e. tablets. It replaces the traditional desktop interface in favor of a Windows Phone-like start screen, made for touch-input apps, a Windows Store for downloading them, multi-touch gestures and Continue Reading →

Looks like Surface didn’t scare everyone off like Microsoft said it might, because today the company announced some official Windows 8 partners. From the sound of it, we’ll see devices from Dell and Samsung all running the operating system. Lenovo is also on board, but we’ve already heard about the ARM-based convertible RT tablet it’s Continue Reading →

Answer: One-hundred percent of all profits gained from Sammy’s smartphones and injunction barring sales of future models. Is that clear enough for you? Because it might not be from the stilted news stories about the Apple-Samsung trial under way here in California. Apple feels entitled to everything. That’s how highly the company’s top-brass thinks about Continue Reading →

Apple is in the midst of a jury trial that accuses rival Samsung of infringing its patents and trademarks on its iPhone and iPad products in creating and marketing the Galaxy devices. The trial continues this week after a San Francisco jury heard testimony from top Apple executives about the making and marketing of the Continue Reading →