How Samsung & Google teamed up to steal Apple Data Detectors for Android

Apple's critics contend that it either doesn't have innovative inventions worthy of patents, or has grossly overestimated the commercial value of its patents. Apple Data Detectors is one example that proves both ideas are wrong.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 120

Apple considering 'dramatic' overhaul of iTunes Music Store to boost sales - report

Facing significant declines in digital music sales, Apple is reportedly plotting a potential overhaul of its iTunes Music Store, in addition to considering new revenue opportunities through on-demand streaming and even allegedly an iTunes for Android.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 60

Mobile malware authors 'almost exclusively' focused on Android in 2013, says Symantec

Attackers continue to target Android more than any other mobile operating system, according to a new report released Tuesday, as Google's platform played host to all but one of the new mobile malware families discovered last year.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 115

Samsung's 'Beat Apple' memo: 'Threat from Apple extremely real and urgent'

While the tech media has devoted lots of attention to Apple's concerned reaction to Samsung's 2012 marketing blitz, evidence likely to be presented during the Apple vs Samsung trial shows that it was Samsung that targeted its attention on "beating Apple" as its "#1 priority" for 2012.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 109

Apple unlocks new Copy Cat docs as evidence Samsung pilfered iPhone unlock

In the original Apple vs Samsung patent trial, Apple made the Galaxy a star witness by presenting a "copy cat" document that detailed every difference with Apple's iPhone paired with advice on how to more closely copy it. For the second trial, Apple has dug up several more Copy Cat docs detailing the evolution of Samsung's "slavish copying," particularly evident with Slide to Unlock.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 234

Samsung shifts strategy in second Apple trial, now claims all patents are worth very little

Apple's second patent infringement trial against Samsung begins today, outlining a battle that the two sides are waging in very different ways. Apple will be expanding upon its legal strategy outlined in the first trial, while Samsung is starting over with an entirely new tactic aimed at devaluating Apple's inventions so it can continue using them for virtually nothing.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 49

Why did Microsoft port Office to Apple's iOS iPad before Android?

Earlier this month, Gartner reported worldwide tablet sales for 2013 that depicted Apple's iPad as slipping into obscurity with just 36 percent market share left. Why would Microsoft target Apple's minority tablet platform with its new mobile Office apps over Google's Android, which supposedly owns a 61.9 percent marketshare?

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 236

How Wikipedia's sloppy facts obscured reality in Apple vs. Samsung trial

In 2011, the world's two most profitable mobile phone makers engaged in a global IP war that continues to this day. As Apple and Samsung prepare for their second trial, it's useful to review why many onlookers were so ill informed about the first one: Wikipedia.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 170

Samsung 'puzzled' as South Korean carriers upstage Galaxy S5 launch with early sales

Apple's chief rival Samsung had big plans for the debut of its flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone on April 11, but carriers in its native country of South Korea have opted to upstage that launch date by releasing the new handset early.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 43

iPhone IP Wars: Nokia vs Apple vs HTC, Motorola & Samsung

In 2007 Apple introduced iPhone, emphasizing that virtually every significant aspect of its entirely new experience and industrial design was protected by patents. Three years later a global patent war erupted. Who's to blame?

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 34

HTC unveils 5" HTC One M8 with gesture controls, dual rear cameras, slo-mo video

Taiwanese handset maker HTC on Tuesday unveiled its latest flagship device intended to take on Apple's iPhone: the HTC One M8, with a larger screen, higher-spec internals, a depth-sensing camera and dual LED flash — but no biometrics.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 109

Apple's iPhone 5c 'failure flop' outsold Blackberry, Windows Phone and every Android flagship in Q4

From the constant harping about the supposed "failure" of Apple's iPhone 5c, you'd think the phone is selling poorly. The reality is that middle tier model, while dramatically less popular than Apple's top of the line iPhone 5s, still managed to outsell every Blackberry, every Windows Phone and every Android flagship in the winter quarter, including Samsung's Galaxy S4.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 299

Samsung's Galaxy S4 displaced other Androids in U.S. but iPhone 5 adoption still faster

A new report on North American adoption of smartphones found iPhone 5 gained users the fastest, building upon Apple's lead in U.S. and Canadian market share, but that Samsung phones displaced other Android devices, giving the Korean giant a plurality of Android's user base.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 28

Apple's 8GB iPhone 5c offers just 3.7GB less storage than Samsung's "16GB" flagship Galaxy S4

Apple's lower cost 8GB iPhone 5c scales down its entry cost by dropping 8GB, but ends up with only 3.7GB less available room for apps, pics and other user data as Samsung's 16GB Galaxy S4, thanks to more efficient storage use and the lack of third party bundles and offers.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 194

Motorola, LG announce first crop of Android Wear-powered smart watches

Google's nascent Android Wear platform gained two standard-bearers Tuesday as American smartphone maker Motorola unveiled the Moto 360 and South Korean consumer products giant LG introduced the G Watch.

Shane Cole 12 years ago 82

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