An image alleged to be of Samsung’s (005930) upcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone was published on Friday by SamMobile. If authentic, the image reveals that Samsung will finally ditch its traditional home and navigational buttons for on-screen keys. The bezel around the device is thinner, giving the upcoming Galaxy smartphone a near edge-to-edge display, similar to Motorola’s DROID RAZR M. The Galaxy S IV is rumored to feature a 4.99-inch Super AMOLED full HD 1920 X 1080 display, and include a 2GHz quad-core Exynos processor, 2GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel rear camera. It should be noted, however, that SamMobile could not 100% confirm that the image is authentic. The most recent rumors suggest the Galaxy S IV will be released in

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A little late to the party, U.S. Cellular will be offering the Android 4.1 Update (Jelly Bean) for the Samsung Galaxy S III starting Friday Dec 21.

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My Hot Electronics currently has the newest Galaxy phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note II and the Samsung Galaxy SIII, marked down and restocked for the store's last minute holiday sale.New York, NY (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 My Hot Electronics announced this week that the store has restocked the popular Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note phones, and would have markdowns on the phones, which are the newest by Samsung.The Samsung Galaxy S III features a 4.8" AMOLED screen with the new Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. ...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's No.1 memory-chip maker, said on Thursday it has completed talks with the state government of Texas where it plans to invest $3.9 billion to expand system-chip production lines and that the expansion would proceed. (Reporting by Ju-min Park and Se Young Lee; Editing by Matt Driskill)

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission, the EU's executive body, will charge Samsung very soon in an antitrust patent case, the EU's competition chief Joaquin Almunia said on Thursday. The EU competition watchdog is now investigating whether Samsung's use of injunctions against Apple breached antitrust rules. "We will issue a statement of objections very soon," Almunia said, referring to the EU Commission's charge sheet. (Reporting By Ethan Bilby)

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(Reuters) - A U.S. judge allowed Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to pursue claims the iPhone5 infringes its patents on Thursday, while also allowing Apple Inc to add claims that the Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy S III and the Jelly Bean operating system violate its patents. The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California, was the latest development in a continuing legal war by Apple against manufacturers like Samsung whose products use Google Inc's Android software. Representatives for both Apple and Samsung declined comment. ...

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Press releaseNovember 19th 2012. Adfonic, the smarter mobile buying platform, has released its Global AdMetrics Report for Q3 2012, showing that while Apple and Samsung both increased their share of ad impressions globally, Apple widened its lead over Samsung. This is despite the increasing popularity of new Samsung devices during Q3 such as the Galaxy S III, which reached Adfonic's global Top Ten mobile devices by share of ad impressions, while Apple's iPhone 5, released towards the end of the quarter, had yet to impact on Adfonic's mobile advertising platform. Continue reading →

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The star of Sprint's Black Friday sale is going to be the Samsung Galaxy S III, which will be available at a big discount on Thursday and Friday.

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A recent report from Asia Economics indicates that the next flagship handset from Samsung, the Galaxy S IV, will have a 1920 x 1080 resolution and will be revealed in January at CES.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of smartphones, infringed Apple patents to make its smartphones and tablets, a U.S. trade panel judge said in a preliminary decision issued on Wednesday. Apple had filed a complaint in mid-2011, accusing Samsung of infringing its patents in making its Captivate, Transform and Fascinate smartphones, as well as the Galaxy Tablet. Judge Thomas Pender said that Samsung infringed four Apple patents but did not violate two others listed in the complaint. ...

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Google is dangling a low-priced laptop computer in front of consumers as rivals Microsoft and Apple prepare to release their latest gadgets.

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VICTORY FOR SAMSUNG: Britain's Court of Appeal has backed a judgment that Samsung's Galaxy tablet doesn't infringe Apple's rights with its iPad.

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Samsung is celebrating Independence Day this year by working vigorously with Google to issue a software patch that will allow sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone to continue. Apple on Saturday won a preliminary injunction on Galaxy Nexus sales in the United States, and Samsung filed a motion to stay the ban on Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh denied Samsung’s appeal on Tuesday evening, and sales of the Galaxy Nexus are now disallowed in the U.S. As of early Wednesday morning, Google had the device pulled from its virtual shelves. Customers who already placed orders should note that they are apparently still shipping. Samsung is preparing a new case to challenge the validity of the patent with Google’s support, but according

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted Apple Inc's bid to stop Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the United States, giving the iPhone maker a significant win in the global smartphone and tablet patent wars. Samsung's Galaxy tablets, powered by Google's Android operating system, are considered by many industry experts to be the main rival to the market-leading iPad. The ruling also comes as Samsung, a distant second to Apple in the tablet market, faces growing competition from rivals, with Microsoft and Google preparing their own tablets. U.S. ...

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While everyone is still buzzing about the upcoming release of the Samsung Galaxy S III, another Samsung product is making its way to carrier stores today. No, it isn't another phone, but rather a small sticker that contains a programmable NFC chip. Dubbed "TecTiles," these stickers can be programmed to automatically perform specific actions when you tap them against any Android phone with an NFC chip installed.

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Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook met with his counterpart from Samsung, Choi Gee-sung, as part of court-mediated talks seeking to find common ground in the ongoing patent battles between the two companies. Unsurprisingly, the talks seems to have been relatively unproductive, with the U.S. case underway in California all but certain to proceed to trial.


Apple has been silent on the talks, but The Korea Times reports on comments from Samsung officials indicating that no agreement was forthcoming.

The two technology giants could find no clear agreement through the talks, according to a Samsung official. Apple Korea declined to comment on the matter.

The patent battle is now headed for trial on June 27, despite both firm’s stated wish to avoid legal proceedings.

According to foreign media outlets, both technology giants held firm on their assertions: Samsung continued to demand Apple pay royalties for using its wireless transmission technology and Apple insisted that Samsung copied its design in various products.

The Korea Herald reports that Samsung's contingent will be returning to Korea on Friday, and with Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee also returning from a three-week business trip to Europe, the company's top executives will almost certainly meet to discuss the talks. It appears, however, that there is little chance of Apple and Samsung budge from their positions sufficiently to prevent a trial from taking place.

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Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Friday. The district court will determine if the Galaxy Tablet violates Apple's iPad patent. If a recent ruling favoring Apple can tell us anything, it's that the court may rule in favor of the iPad-designing company. The ruling allowed Apple to continue to block U.S. sales of Samsung's tablet.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for court-supervised mediation. A joint court filing in April said that "as directed by the Court, Apple and Samsung are both willing to participate" in the discussions. ...

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Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Friday. The district court will determine if the Galaxy Tablet violates Apple's iPad patent. If a recent ruling favoring Apple can tell us anything, it's that the court may rule in favor of the iPad-designing company. The ruling allowed Apple to continue to block U.S. sales of Samsung's tablet.

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Mobile phone sales worldwide suffered a rare dip in the first three months of this year on softened demand in Asian markets, industry tracker Gartner reported Wednesday.

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