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U.S. judge  Paul S. Grewal ruled that Apple cannot add  Samsung’s  Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it claims infringe on its patents on Thursday according to Bloomberg. Adding another product to the case is a “tax on the court’s resources,” Grewal said in the ruling. “Each time these parties appear in the courtroom, they consume considerable amounts of the court’s time [...]

World’s largest phone maker Samsung announced on Monday that it would stop making desktop PCs because of abysmal demand and fast shrinking profits and instead focus on tablets and laptops. “Demand for conventional desktop PCs is going down,” a Samsung official told The Korea Times. “We will allocate our resources to popular connected and portable devices.” PC market would probably [...]

Mark Zuckerberg  has been in Seoul, South Korea this week and earlier met with top executives including the company’s president Shin Jong Kyun and chairman Kun-hee Lee according to Bloomberg to discuss a partnership that would boost Facebook’s advertising sales on mobile phones. Facebook’s effort to be more mobile focused saw it release Facebook Home, which centres around [...]

Rumour had that Samsung is coming out with a smaller and compact version of it’s hugely popular and fast selling flagship smartphone  Samsung Galaxy S4 with dialed back specs and price. On Thursday the Korean giant has officially taken the wraps off the Galaxy S4 mini. Galaxy S4 mini will be powered by a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor, alongside 1.5GB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory — of [...]

South Korean giant Samsung has bought a 10 percent stake in rival and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company Pantech according to reports by TheNextWeb . The purchase was done for a reported sum of 53 billion won or $48 million, Pantech is also Samsung’s component customer, this deal will solidify  the relationship between the South Korean companies and help joint research and development. Samsung’s [...]

Apple had requested California courts dealing with the patent cases permission to add Samsung Galaxy S4 as an infringing device in its ongoing patent battle with Samsung. Apple has officially filed a motion detailing five patents infringed by Samsung in it’s latest flagship Galaxy S4 and another two Siri related patents infringed by the device’s Google Now voice controlled search feature according [...]

Samsung Galaxy phone lineup’s latest entrant, Galaxy S4 is on track to selling 10 million handsets in its first month according to the  The Korea Times who quoted Samsung’s co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun. “It is selling much faster than the previous model S3 … Samsung spent 50 days to pass the 10 million sales mark for the S3. The S4 will be Samsung’s first ’10 million [...]

Latest number from market researcher Kantar confirm’s  Android’s overwhelming dominance of the UK and the Global smartphone market Among the nine countries (Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK and the U.S.) surveyed by Kantar   Android on average accounted for 64.2% of all handset sales in Q1 2013.   Windows Phone accounted for 6.5% of sales with an increase of  [...]

Samsung is going bigger than the 5.55-inch Galaxy Note II for folks who may think that Galaxy Note is not a big enough phablet with two new smartphones with 5.8-inch and 6.3-inch screens. The two phones will be called the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and the Galaxy Mega 6.3. The 6.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega is a cheaper alternative to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, even though the price is not published it’s [...]

Samsung and Mozilla announced plans today to jointly develop a web browser engine called “Servo” which will be designed for Android and the ARM architecture. Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich provided more details in a blog post : Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities [...]