Samsung: Apple stole the iPad’s design from a tablet it saw a decade earlier
We’re starting to see a theme develop here. Now that it’s Samsung’s (005930) turn to present its case in the San Jose, California patent trial …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note II is going to be absolutely huge according to this leaked photo
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Google aims to outthink Apple with new DARPA-like research team
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Samsung: Whether or not we ripped off Apple’s tech, Apple stole it to begin with
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Gartner: Apple and Samsung exploded in Q2 while BlackBerry sales slid 37%
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Now that nearly every iPhone 5 part has leaked, here are photos of all of the key internal parts
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Apple Stores reportedly in the midst of ‘significant layoffs’ in U.S., Canada and U.K.
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iPhone 5 preorders to begin on September 12th
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NewBay, other RIM assets up for grabs as company digs for cash
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Google to bolster local services portfolio with Frommer’s acquisition
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DOJ: Want to make sure we can’t access your private data? Buy an iPhone
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iPhone sales seemingly slowing more than expected – more prices slashed as iPhone 5 nears
With the unveiling of Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation iPhone less than a month away, sales of the company’s currently available iPhones are seemingly slowing more than expected. Last …
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It looks like Apple has another copied design to sue Samsung over
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Apple sold more smartphones in two quarters than Samsung sold in two years in the U.S.
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Samsung confirms, yet again, that it wants nothing to do with RIM or its software
Ouch. Consumer electronics giants like Samsung (005930) typically stay quiet when it comes to market chatter, but Samsung has taken a different approach when the topic of …
Apple begins selling iPhone 4S at $149.99 to match Sprint discount
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This is Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 handset, and it looks just like its first Windows Phone 7 handset
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NPD: Apple was best-selling U.S. smartphone vendor by wide margin in Q2
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Samsung might have just outed the Galaxy Note II ahead of its official debut
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HP braces for record $9 billion quarterly loss
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iPhone 5 will be just 7.6mm thin – thinner than the Galaxy S III and even HTC’s One S
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132-page internal document shows how Samsung set out to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel
An internal memo from February 2010 emerged in the Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) trial on Monday that was fairly damaging to Samsung’s case. In …
Verizon has five secret data plans you can only get if you know about them
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More than $1 billion shed from HTC’s market cap in two days
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Developer ports Android app to BlackBerry PlayBook, sees 25 times more downloads
Getting exposure in Apple’s (AAPL) iOS App Store and Google’s (GOOG) Google Play market can be daunting at best. Developers must compete for exposure with …
iPhone 5 rumors send smartphone owners scrambling to sell phones
Smartphone owners are scrambling to sell off their old handsets as the release of Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation iPhone draws near. Apple will unveil the “iPhone …
