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by Alex Dobie
May 14, 2013
Apple says Samsung's new flagship smartphone "is an infringing device"
Apple will move to have the Galaxy S4 added to its patent infringement case against Samsung, court documents ...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 10, 2013
Even when counting laptops and tablets, Android powers 59-percent of all devices shipped in Q1
We often get glimpses into how well Android is performing in terms of shipments compared to other m...
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by Alex Dobie
May 07, 2013
Samsung's voice assistant on the Galaxy S4 burns rival Apple
S Voice is Samsung's take on a voice-based personal assistant. And by that we mean it's heavily inspired by Apple's&n...
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by Alex Dobie
May 07, 2013
iMore compares HTC's Ultrapixel camera to the iPhone's 8MP rear shooter
Outside of the Android world, one of the HTC One's biggest competitors is Apple's iPhone 5, a device ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 16, 2013
Apple has put up a new web page (and sent out an email blast to spam folders everywhere) praising the iPhone 5 against the competition. Plenty of Android fans are going to debate every single word A...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
As the Samsung Galaxy S4, which is likely to be the most popular selling smart phone for the summer, is being announced tomorrow in New York, we find that Apple's senior vice president of market...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2013
Just the same, only different: The iPhone 5 and HTC One are worlds apart
"The HTC One looks just like the iPhone 5!" Those were the words out of many a mouth after HTC unveiled its new...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2013
Just when you thought the Internet was safe from the the Apple v. Samsung courtroom drama, it comes back. Today Judge Lucy Koh, who is presiding over not one but two (and possibly now a third) ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 13, 2013
It's a slightly bizarre feeling, but in Brazil, this Android smartphone is the iPhone. And, thanks to a ruling by Brazilian regulators, it can continue to be called the iPhone, as Apple has been...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 23, 2013
From a Huffington Post feature on the origins of Apple's 'Siri' comes the revelation that the famed voice assistant almost became a poster child for Verizon's line of Android phones....
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by Richard Devine
Jan 17, 2013
Fortune today released its annual list of the top 100 companies to work for, with a definite case of score one for Google. Sitting pretty in the top spot, Google is deemed to be the best company out...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2012
Here's a quick heads up for those of you who just have to run the occasional Android application siloed on your computer -- Bluestacks is now in beta for Macs. If you're new to Bluestacks, t...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 18, 2012
Seemingly out of nowhere, Samsung has said today that it will stop pursuing injunction requests against Apple products in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Coming on the heels of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
In case you missed it overnight, Google Maps is back on iOS. (No iPad version yet.) And it's pretty damn good, as you'd expect from a Google app.
And now that we look at it, Google's go...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 13, 2012
Just a week before the Mayan Apocalypse, Google Maps is back on iOS. It actually looks pretty good, and should help keep folks out of dingo territory. Rene and company are looking it over, expect al...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 09, 2012
A group consisting of Google, Dell, Facebook, Homeaway, Intuit, Rackspace, Red Hat and Zynga have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals suggesting that courts stop honoring and u...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2012
The US Patent and Trade Office has made a preliminary ruling that U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949 (AKA the "Steve Jobs" multitouch patent) is invalid on all 20 points. The '949 patent is con...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 06, 2012
The confidential cross-licensing agreement between HTC and Apple that ended hostilities between the companies became a little less confidential today. A redacted version of the agreement has been ma...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 05, 2012
Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss all manner of things relating to to Google, its competition, its products and its f...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2012
Want to move files between your Android device and a Mac? There's an app for that (natch)
It's OK to use a Mac if you're also an Android fan. You don't have to apologize. In fact...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2012
A few days back Samsung asked the courts for the terms of the settlement agreement between HTC and Apple, and this evening US Judge Paul S. Grewal granted the request. Samsung is curious becaus...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 20, 2012
Since HTC and Apple settled their patent disputes and agreed to a cross-licensing agreement, there's been plenty of speculation as to exactly what this deal entails. One figure floating around t...
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by Victoria Ho
Nov 17, 2012
There seems to be a crop of fake apps from “Apple Inc” on the Google Play store. The six apps are masquerading as Apple’s Garageband (erroneously called Garage Band on the faked ve...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 16, 2012
In an effort to stop Apple from imposing a sales ban on their products in the U.S., Samsung is seeking to have Apple disclose the terms of their patent settlement with HTC. The grounds for the court...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 16, 2012
Both Apple and Samsung have been granted requests to add additional devices to their respective patent claims against one another by a federal judge recently. This means that Samsung can claim paten...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 14, 2012
HTC and Apple's recently-announced legal settlement and cross-licensing agreement has had some wondering if Samsung might follow a similar path and attempt to resolve its legal conflicts with Ap...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 12, 2012
Though the most HTC would say about their patent settlement with Apple was that they didn't expect the process to "have an adverse material impact on the financials of the company," an...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 12, 2012
Sources are claiming that Samsung has cranked up the price of application processors for iPad and iPhone devices by 20%. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple rejected the price change, but af...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 12, 2012
Previously on Patent Wars -- Apple sues Samsung in the UK over alleged copying of its iPad design, loses, appeals, loses again, and is ordered to publish statements in leading publications and its o...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 09, 2012
It seems at this point that the patent wars will continue. After quite the trial concerning patents and trade dress between Apple and Samsung, appeals thereafter and plenty of arguing outside of cou...
