The winter holiday season is just around the corner. Every year, the holiday season marks the greatest sales made by tech giants. This year is no different. According to a recent survey, a majority of users are gearing up to purchase Apple’s iPad mini and other Apple tablets as gifts this year.
It seems that Samsung has been able to establish its Galaxy Note devices as a successful product line in the smartphone market. The demand for the devices is fairly good and the company has been able to sell 3 million units of its new Galaxy Note 2 within 37 days of its release.
Google will hold an event on October 29th to unwrap a Nexus 4 phone, a Nexus 10 tablet, and an updated Nexus 7 tablet.
Apple and Samsung have been interlocked in a fierce patent war which doesn’t seem to be subsiding any time soon. A while ago, it was reported that a UK judge had called Samsung’s Galaxy Tab not ‘as cool’ as iPad and thus, not an infringement. Apple filed an appeal against it. And lost again.
After losing $1.05 billion and perhaps more during the late August patent-case decision; Samsung is fighting back in-attempt to lower that figure. While they obviously aren’t great at defending the designs of their devices, the Korean-based company has decided to take an alternative route. Samsung is questioning the jury one-by-one to find out what type of people completed the $1.05 billion verdict decision. One guy in particular seems highly suspicious, and Samsung wants to get to the bottom of this situation. Foreman, Velvin Hogan, was sued by Seagate Technology, and they happen to be owned by Samsung. As a result, they are crying that Hogan could have influenced the decision in a bias manner.
When Apple received a favorable verdict against Samsung in the landmark victory over its design patents, it also brought a rather small win for Samsung. The court found Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 not infringing the patents that Apple had brought forth. In light of this, Samsung moved the court to lift the ban from the tablet’s sales in the U.S. And now, the court has granted it.
Samsung has been pitted against Apple both in the smartphone and the tablet market, as well as in the legal arena. The two companies have been embroiled in patent disputes for months, and Apple was able to bag a resounding success recently. But now, the Court of Appeals has recommended that a lower court should reconsider the ban on Samsung’s tablet, Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Recently, a very significant problem with a number of Samsung’s Android smartphones came to light. It was a vulnerability which could allow someone to remotely run a control code on a Samsung smartphone and swipe it clean of all user data. It has now been found out that the issue is far more widespread and affects all Android vendors.