Apple vs. Samsung: The battlelines
Samsung's countersuits were "swift and strong" says an expert On Thursday, Samsung filed its fourth response to Apple's charge of "slavish" imitation: A suit in a California federal court alleging...
View ArticleThe iPhone's vector of growth
If Apple's share of global profits is going up, others' must be going down Last fall, Asymco's Horace Dediu introduced a new way of visualizing the dynamics of the worldwide mobile phone market. He...
View ArticleSamsung seeks import ban on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Apple and its main supplier of memory chips seem headed for "ugly divorce," says expert The legal battle began in April when Apple (AAPL) filed a suit in California accusing Samsung of "slavishly"...
View ArticleApple vs. Samsung: 8 venues, 6 countries, more than 50 patents
A move to "streamline" an epic legal battle has only made it more complicated There was some confusion in the tech press last Saturday when Bloomberg reported that Samsung had quietly dropped a...
View ArticleMuch ado about patent lawyers
Apple changes its in-house legal guard. Samsung wants Apple's outside counsels ousted On the heels of a Reuters report that Apple's (AAPL) chief patent counsel has been replaced by Hewlett-Packard's...
View ArticleApple overtakes Nokia to become the world's No. 1 smartphone maker
The next contender: Samsung, whose Android phones are gaining fast The companies that track mobile phone sales are just now catching up to the news that came out of Apple's (AAPL) last week. According...
View ArticleSamsung's Australian setback: A peek at Android's future?
Its settlement with Apple does not bode well for devices that "slavishly" copy the iPad If all had gone according to plan, Samsung would have launched its latest tablet computer -- the Galaxy Tab 10.1...
View ArticleMajor Android setback: Galaxy Tab banned in Europe
Apple granted an injunction barring distribution in all of the EU except The Netherlands A week after Samsung agreed out of court to postpone the launch of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, the leading...
View ArticleAd wars redux: What Google has finally learned from Apple
The Galaxy Nexus "Calling all pretty faces" is an homage to Apple in more ways than one Android marketing has come a long way from the 2009 TV ad for Motorola's Droid that asked: "Should a phone be...
View ArticleApple bought 23% of the world's NAND flash last quarter
And re-sold it to consumers for billions more than it paid, according to Toni Sacconaghi The only difference between a 16 GB iPhone 4S and the 32 GB model is 16 GB of NAND flash memory, for which Apple...
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