A company called Flurry looked at Android tablet sales over the holiday season in 2011, and found the Asus Transformer lost out to the Kindle Fire in the best selling Android tablet category. Flurry looked at which tablets spent the most time in a series of apps the company is involved in, and determined the Amazon Kindle Fire was the top dog in the rapidly growing Android tablet space. The previous leader was the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and in just a few months, the Kindle Fire knocked it out of th...
Anthony Myers
Jan 31, 2012
Apple beat Samsung twice Jan. 31, and a German court found the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 mimicked the iPad 2 just a little too much, banning them from store shelves completely. Samsung is not worried about the ruling because they already designed the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, a device that complies with the copyright infringement ruling and is sold throughout Germany, an Associated Press report said.
Anthony Myers
Jan 31, 2012
EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics breached antitrust rules by accusing rivals such as Apple of infringing its technology patents, a tactic used by other companies such as Motorola Mobility.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 31, 2012
Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market.
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Jan 31, 2012
Toshiba Corp., Japan's biggest chip maker, booked a 72 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday and slashed its annual profit forecast as a strong yen and the Eurozone debt crisis hit profits.
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Jan 31, 2012
Samsung Galaxy Note hit the right note at CES 2012 by drawing a huge crowd of people, who were jostling with each other to catch a glimpse of the newly unveiled tablet/smartphone hybrid. On Monday, the South Korean electronics giant announced that Galaxy Note will go on sale in the U.S. market on Feb. 19 for $299.99 with a 2-year AT&T contract. Online sale kicks off on Feb. 5. So far, so good, but will Galaxy Note pose a threat to iPhone 4S?
Surojit Chatterjee
Jan 31, 2012
AT&T confirmed Monday the availability of the most-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note from Feb. 19 for $299.99 with a two-year contract. With a huge 5.3-inch display, the Galaxy Note is considered to be neither a phone nor a tablet but a happy combination of both.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Jan 31, 2012
European Union regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics breached antitrust rules in its legal battles against rivals, among them Apple, which use its mobile technology patents.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 31, 2012
There's a good news for Android fans - Google's flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy Nexus is on sale with only a $99.99 price tag via its Amazon Wireless store for a limited time.
Wendy Li
Jan 31, 2012
The European Commission opened an investigation into whether Samsung Electronics has distorted competition in the European mobile device market, breaking EU antitrust rules, the EU executive arm said in a statement on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 31, 2012
Toshiba Corp., Japan's biggest chip maker, booked a 72 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday and slashed its annual profit forecast as a strong yen and the Eurozone debt crisis hit profits.
Mike Obel
Jan 31, 2012
Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 31, 2012
Samsung's eagerly awaited Galaxy Note will be available at AT&T on Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract.
Bhaskar Prasad
Jan 31, 2012
Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy Note device will hit AT&T shelves on Feb. 19 and will run on the wireless carrier's 4G LTE network. The price? A cool $299.99 with a 2-year contract.
Surojit Chatterjee
Jan 30, 2012
Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphone will arrive on AT&T Feb. 19 for $300, but if you're unsure if its better than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, here's how they compare. They are both $300 with a new two year contract, are very thin, fast and powerful. Besides being already available, the Galaxy Nexus also runs the Android 4.0 system that Galaxy Note will get eventually. It won't debut with the system, however. Instead it will ship with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Anthony Myers
Jan 30, 2012
Philips swung to a fourth-quarter net loss as government cuts ate into its healthcare equipment business and a slowdown in European construction activity and consumer spending hit its lighting operations.
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Jan 30, 2012
Shareholders of InterDigital, owner of wireless patents, got a rude awakening when it canceled its company auction only days after Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy after failing to sell 1,100 patents. Is the patent gold rush over?
David Zielenziger
Jan 29, 2012
Several other upcoming smartphones are also said to make its way to the ICS platform in 2012. Some of them include- HTC Ville, HTC Primo, LG X3, and LG 3.0 Prada Phone to name a few.
ambrosia sabrina
Jan 29, 2012
Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone is the Korean manufacturer's new flagship device, and the Nokia Lumia 900 is Nokia's real first attempt at a smartphone in the U.S. That's no knock against the Nokia Lumia 710 on T-Mobile, but it doesn't compete against the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S2 and now S3.
Anthony Myers
Jan 28, 2012
The rumors about iPad 3, or Apple's next generation tablet, has touched a fever-pitch with expectations growing that the tablet will launch in late February or early March. From a better camera and Retina Display to a quad-core processor and NFC technology, here's a rundown of the features Tech & Trend thinks iPad 3 will boast of (and not boast of).
Surojit Chatterjee
Jan 28, 2012
The rumors surrounding Apple Inc.'s anticipated launch of the next iteration of its hugely popular iPhone series of smartphones are gathering momentum.
sangeeta mukherjee
Jan 28, 2012
The Kindle Fire, which only debuted in November 2011, has edged passed the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the most used Android tablet according to the latest report.
Bhaskar Prasad
Jan 28, 2012
