New York: Apple Inc is seeking speedy bans on the sale of eight Samsung Electronics phones, moving swiftly to translate its resounding court victory over its rival into a tangible business benefit. The world's most valuable company wasted no time in identifying its targets on Monday: eight older-model smartphones, including the Galaxy S2 and Droid Charge. While Apple's lawsuit encompassed 28 devices, many of those accused products are no longer...
10:23 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Seoul: While Samsung Electronics is reeling from a patent pounding by its smartphone rival Apple Inc, this is unlikely to damage the other part of their relationship - where Samsung is the sole supplier of Apple-designed chips that power the iPhone and iPad. At an emergency meeting in Seoul early on Sunday following the damning U.S. legal defeat, the South Korean group's post mortem was led by vice chairman Choi...
05:04 PM, Aug 27, 2012
San Francisco: In August 2010, just a few months after Samsung Electronics launched its Galaxy smartphone, a team of Apple Inc lawyers flew to South Korea. Apple's late co-founder, Steve Jobs, had already told Samsung executives at a meeting earlier that summer that he considered the Galaxy S, based on Google's Android operating system, an illegal copy of the iPhone. But given the extensive business ties between the two companies...
10:55 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics shares tumbled more than 7 per cent on Monday, wiping $12 billion off the South Korean giant's market value, as Apple Inc's sweeping legal victory in their US patent battle raised concerns about its smartphone business, its biggest cash cow. A US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages in the most closely...
09:28 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: AllThingsD, a tech website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, has now confirmed that Apple will unveil its next-generation iPhone and highly anticipated iPad mini at two separate events, rather than a single event as has been widely speculated. According to the AllThingsD report, Apple will unveil its next-generation iPhone, unofficially dubbed iPhone 5, at an as yet unannounced event on September 12. The report goes on saying...
11:18 AM, Aug 26, 2012
The Korean company has been asked to pay Apple Inc over one billion dollars for copying critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad. ...
08:19 AM, Aug 25, 2012
California: What's the worst insult you can throw at a fast-moving company like Facebook? Call its iPhone app slow and poky. On Thursday, Facebook Inc. addressed users who had gripes with its app for iPhones and iPads with the launch of a faster version. Rather than add a slew of new features, the company said it rebuilt the application from scratch to make it speedier and less clunky. In a...
09:54 AM, Aug 24, 2012
California: Apple Inc's worldwide legal crusade against the Android mobile operating system drew toward a climax on Tuesday as the iPhone maker's attorneys accused Samsung of taking a shortcut by copying Apple's designs after realizing it could not keep up. Closing arguments were delivered at trial between Apple and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in a federal court in San Jose, California. The jury will begin deliberating on Wednesday. Samsung attorney...
10:35 AM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: With rumours rife about the September launch of Apple's next-generation iPhone, here comes an iPhone 5 parody commercial, produced by Web video artist Adam Sacks. The spoof commercial is hilarious, and mocks sad and alone amateur food photographers. The video features a gentleman as the Vice President, iPhone Product Design, who says, "Before designing the iPhone 5, we studied how customers use their iPhones and we discovered something...
02:44 PM, Aug 21, 2012
San Jose: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd abused its "monopoly power" and demanded an unreasonable royalty from Apple Inc for the use of wireless patents in the iPhone, hurting the device's commercial prospects, Apple experts testified. Richard Donaldson, a former lead patents attorney for Texas Instruments Inc, told the court on Friday a 2.4 per cent royalty Samsung wanted on the price of the iPhone was discriminatory because the patents in...
01:54 PM, Aug 18, 2012
San Francisco: A hacker revealed a security flaw that he claimed could make Apple's iPhone particularly vulnerable to text message cheating. The flaw has existed since iPhone was first launched in 2007, and is still not solved in the beta version of iOS 6, the next operating system for iPhone, the hacker under the name 'Pod2g' said in a blog post, reported Xinhua. Under the protocols handling the exchange of...
01:40 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Shanghai: In China's booming smartphone market, which is set this year to overtake the United States as the world's largest, a host of little-known local firms are primed with cheap phones to squeeze market share from US giant Apple Inc's iPhone. In the latest local challenge to the iPhone, Xiaomi Technology on Thursday launches the successor to its popular MiOne smartphone, which is expected to have top-end specifications exceeding those...
12:58 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New York: Mobile phone maker Nokia Oyj said on Wednesday it will hold a joint media event with Microsoft Corp in New York on September 5, boosting hopes that it will unveil its long-awaited Windows smartphone upgrade before rival Apple Inc rolls out its next iPhone. The Finnish company gave no details about the September event, but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said earlier on Wednesday the company would unveil soon...
12:46 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Beijing: The sensational case of a teenager selling one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and iPad came up for hearing at a court in central China where nine people, including a surgeon are on trial facing charges of intentional injury and illegal organ trade. Judges at the People's Court in Beihu District of Chenzhou in Hunan province heard how 18-year-old Wang Shangkun, who sold his kidney to buy...
01:36 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New York: Got an iPhone? You're in the minority. There were four Android phones for every iPhone shipped in the second quarter, research firm IDC said Wednesday. That's up from a ratio of 2.5 to 1 in the same period last year. The success of Samsung's Android phones helped Google's operating system extend its dominance in the smartphone market. Samsung Electronics Co. and other phone makers shipped nearly 105 million...
10:40 AM, Aug 09, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc showed off enhancements to its voice-based search technology for Apple Inc's iPhone and said it was testing a new service that will combine its Web-based email with its search engine. The new version of Google's search app for the iPhone and iPad, expected to be available within a few days, will let users find information about everything from the weather to nearby movie showings by speaking...
10:21 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Washington: An influential American lawmaker has expressed concern on the harsh and often-dangerous working conditions faced by workers in Apple's China-based factories and asked the company to report to it on the improvement of working conditions of its facilities in China. "Workers making popular products like iPads and iPhones consumer goods that sell for hundreds of dollars in the United States can toil under the harshest conditions thousands of miles...
01:06 PM, Aug 01, 2012
California: Apple Inc's celebrated industrial design team is a group of around 16 "maniacal" individuals from all over the world who spend a lot of time brainstorming around a kitchen table. The world's most valuable technology corporation on Tuesday allowed a rare glimpse into a zealously guarded internal hardware design process that has produced some of the world's most celebrated consumer electronics. In a high-profile US patent infringement trial against...
11:48 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New York: The once-sexy iPhone is starting to look small and chubby. That's become a problem for Apple, which revealed last week that iPhone sales have slowed. Part of the problem is that the competition has found a formula that works: thinner phones with bigger screens. For a dose of smartphone envy, iPhone owners need to look no further than Samsung Electronics Co., the number-one maker of smartphones in the...
01:38 PM, Jul 31, 2012
San Francisco: Apple Inc is gearing up to unveil a new product at a major September 12 event, a source familiar with the plan said, presaging the long-awaited launch of the redesigned iPhone. The world's most valuable technology company typically takes the wraps off its latest smartphones around the fall, allowing the gadget to hit store shelves in time for the peak holiday shopping season. The fifth iteration of the...
12:55 PM, Jul 31, 2012
