Samsung may have to pay a massive fine in Europe for attempting to use standard-essential patents to ban the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad in Europe. The European Commission started its investigation into Samsung back in January and it states that Samsung may be fined up to 10% of its global turnover. This is based on Samsung’s revenue in 2011, which… Read more
Despite having the same (and amazing) notification system from the start, Google has only been granted patents for it last month. I guess Samsung jumped at the chance, because they are now suing Apple in South Korea over Notification Center. Notification Center is Apple’s new notification system, introduced in 2011 in the software update iOS5, many have… Read more
Kantar World Panel has released their end of November figures, and it shows that Apple is back on top in the US market while Android has been pushed back to second place. The report is compiled of 12 weeks worth of sales data with the final day being November 25th, 2012. Not only did Apple beat Android, but it has also reached a major milestone by… Read more
A new report published by Distimo has given us some information about the app stores of the two biggest mobile operating systems, but the information is something we already knew. First of all, Google Play is growing a lot faster than the Apple App Store. Google Play’s daily revenue grew 43% in the last four months. The App Store’s daily revenue only… Read more
Kodak has agreed to sell its digital-imaging technology patents to a consortium led by RPX Corporation, a patent risk advisory firm, and Intellectual Ventures, a patent-holding company. The entire consortium consists of 12 licensees. This list includes: Apple, Inc. Research In Motion Limited Google Inc. Samsung Electronics CO., Ltd. Adobe… Read more
Samsung has withdrawn injunction requests against Apple all over Europe today. This includes the UK, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. While we don’t doubt there are other factors in play, Samsung claims that it made this decision “in the interest of protecting consumer choice.” They also say that it “remains committed to licensing… Read more
Apple and Samsung found themselves before Judge Lucy Koh last night in another “Duel of the Fates” legal battle. At the end of the evening, it was a good news/bad news scenario for both companies as they can each chalk up one win apiece. Perhaps the most important victory came for Samsung as Apple was denied a permanent sales ban on the 26 Samsung… Read more
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says that Android is definitely winning the smartphone war against Apple. Schmidt says that Google’s Android lead over Apple in the mobile market is similar to Microsoft’s desktop software’s lead over Apple’s desktops in the 1990s. Schmidt says that Android has attained 72.4% of the mobile market in Q3 while Apple only… Read more
The newest craze is to put LTE into every phone possible (except the Nexus 4). The Apple iPhone finally got LTE, Samsung sacrificed their Exynos quad core for a Snapdragon S4 dual in the US Galaxy S III for LTE, and every manufacturer has tried to get an LTE device out in the US. This is because the US is one of the three biggest LTE markets in the… Read more
Google’s CEO Larry Page is one of the wealthiest men in the world and sits at the head of the table for one of the worlds largest and most powerful Internet companies. That’s the public Larry Page, the private Larry Page may also be one of the most press-shy CEOs even as he runs a company that is ingrained in our everyday world. The notoriously press… Read more
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