Stockholm: Korea's Samsung Electronics on Tuesday said it would drop law suits aimed at banning the sale of Apple Inc. products in Europe just a day after scoring a victory in a battle in the United States with the maker of iPhones. Samsung and Apple, the world's top two smartphone makers, have been locked in patent disputes in at least 10 countries over the last 18 months since Apple sued...
12:30 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Inspired by the success of the Galaxy Note and its successor the Note II, Samsung has unveiled its budget 5-inch smartphone the Galaxy Grand. Samsung The Samsung Galaxy Grand runs Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) and is powered by a 1.2 GHz Dual Core processor. The phone has an 8 megapixel camera and a 2 megapixel front camera. The 5-inch WVGA (800x480) screen is of the TFT LCD variety....
01:02 PM, Dec 18, 2012
California: A US judge denied Apple Inc's request for a permanent injunction against Samsung Electronics' smartphones, depriving the iPhone maker of key leverage in the mobile patent wars. Apple had been awarded $1.05 billion in damages in August after a US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad. The Samsung products run on the Android operating system, developed by Google. Apple and Samsung are going...
12:18 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Seoul: A South Korean government agency said that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this year, only the second time it has recognised a link between cancer and Samsung's chip plants. The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, which is part of the labor ministry, ruled earlier this month that there was a "considerable causal relationship" between the woman's cancer...
10:54 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Seoul: Liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens were expected to slowly fade and die, giving way to lighter, thinner and tougher organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels in everything from smartphones to televisions. But LCD is refusing to go quietly as its picture quality keeps getting better. At the same time, the major backers of credit card-thin OLED panels - led by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics - are struggling to make the...
02:51 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Seoul: What a difference three months can make. At the end of August, Apple seemed on top of the world. Fresh off a resounding $1.05 billion US legal victory over arch-foe Samsung Electronics, the company was gearing up to launch the fifth iteration of its iconic iPhone. Just a week prior, its market value had surpassed Microsoft's and it became the most valuable technology company in history. That was then....
09:57 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics, the world's leading technology company by revenue, is likely accelerating the launch of its next-generation flagship Galaxy smartphone - which may come with a breakthrough unbreakable screen. Codenamed "Project J" after mobile division chief JK Shin, development of the new Galaxy S IV could be aimed for release by as early as April, according to analysts and tech blogs. And, as smartphones increasingly look alike - the...
03:02 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics pushed the anointed heir of the company Chairman closer to the top job on Wednesday as the it cemented a global lead in smartphones with a stock price that is close to record highs. The promotion of the snappily-dressed and bespectacled Jay Y Lee, aged 44, to the job of vice chairman comes after Samsung marked the 25th anniversary of his father Lee Kun-hee's chairmanship last week....
07:51 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Kolkata: South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung is aiming to capture 50 per cent market share in value terms of India's overall mobile phone market by 2013, a top executive of the company said here Friday. Currently, the electronics major enjoys 40 per cent share of the country's Rs 45,000-crore handset market. "Next year, we will like to have 50 percent market share in overall mobile phone market, including smartphones...
11:31 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Amsterdam: A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that some of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy smartphones and tablets infringe an Apple patent in the latest round of the two firms' worldwide battle. The court ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple damages, determined by how much profit it has made from the sales. The patent dispute concerns the Android operating system versions 2.2.1 to 3.0 used on Samsung's Galaxy tablets and smartphones, the...
11:13 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Seoul: South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co is taking aim at its Japanese rivals with an Android-powered digital camera that allows users to swiftly and wirelessly upload pictures to social networking sites. The Galaxy camera lets users connect to a mobile network or Wi-Fi to share photographs and video without having to hook up the camera to a computer. While it's not the first to the market, Samsung's...
11:07 AM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung announced the launch of its Windows 8-based devices in the Indian market. The devices launched include the Ativ Smart PC and Ativ Smart PC Pro; Series 5 ULTRA Touch, Samsung's first touch-enabled Ultrabook; Samsung Series 9 with 15-inch display; and AMD based Series 5 Ultrabook. All these Windows 8 based devices are now available in the Indian market. The Ativ Smart PC and Ativ Smart PC Pro...
02:06 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Stockholm: Ericsson, the world's biggest telecom network equipment maker, said it was suing Samsung Electronics Co for patent infringement after two years of talks failed to yield a license agreement. Sweden's Ericsson, which reckons more than 40 per cent of the world's mobile traffic passes through its networks, filed a lawsuit in the United States saying Samsung had refused to sign a license to use technology on terms it referred...
12:06 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will ship 16 million tablets and laptop computers operating on Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 and Windows 7 operating systems this year, said Jin Park, vice president of the IT solutions business at Samsung. Microsoft, the world's largest software company, launched its new-look, touch-friendly Windows 8 earlier this year to grip customers' imagination, as it looks to regain ground lost to Apple Inc and Google...
11:47 AM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung and Nikon have changed the game and instead of a good camera in a phone have put a mobile OS in a camera. Here is how the two stack up against each other based on features. Nikon became the first to launch a camera with Android operating system and Samsung followed soon with a full-fledged Android device with 3G connectivity in a camera. While Nikon is cheaper...
12:30 PM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: Earlier this month we reported that Samsung had sold more than 3 million Galaxy Note II smartphones in a little over a month after its launch, and now the South Korean giant has reported that it has moved two million more in a span of less than a month. So, now the cumulative sales of the Galaxy Note II, released three months back, has exceeded 5 million, as...
11:38 AM, Nov 26, 2012
Washington: Apple Inc has asked a federal court to add six more products to its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co, including the Samsung Galaxy Note II, in the latest in move in an ongoing legal war between the two companies. The case is one of two patent infringement lawsuits pending in the US District Court in San Jose by Apple against Samsung. An earlier lawsuit by Apple that...
10:58 AM, Nov 26, 2012
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05:56 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung had recently halted the roll out of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S III in India after starting it earlier this month. But now the company has resumed rolling out the update, which is available using the Samsung Kies software. The update had begun rolling out, and many were not able to receive it over-the-air (OTA). We have been trying to update the device OTA,...
01:32 PM, Nov 24, 2012
