HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― Supply issues could hinder Apple Inc. in its latest smartphone showdown with Samsung Electronics Co. as the two tech behemoths face off in Hong Kong following the release of their new mobile gadgets here last month. Samsung Electronics started selling the Galaxy Note 2 in Hong Kong last Thursday, six days after Apple’s iPhone 5 hit the Chinese territory.So far, Hong Kong and Britain are the only places in the world where the latest products from the two top smartphone m

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has officially added Apple Inc.’s iPhone 5 to the ongoing patent war between the two smartphone titans, a move that could affect sales of the latest iPhone.In a statement, Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, said it has filed a motion to add Apple’s latest gadget to the U.S. patent row on charges of infringing its patents.“Apple continues to take aggressive legal measures that will limit market competition. Under these circumstances, we have lit

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. says it has filed a motion with a U.S. court to add Apple's iPhone 5 to their ongoing patent battle.Samsung says it filed the motion Monday with the California court, alleging that Apple's new phone infringes on eight of its patents.The two companies are locked in a struggle for supremacy in the global smartphone market, leading to legal cases in courts across

Photo sharing app Instagram has overtaken Twitter for the first time among U.S. smartphone users, according to data from comScore.In August, Instagram received an average of 7.3 million daily visitors, while Twitter attracted 6.9 million users, the website said.ComScore’s data reflects usage among U.S. smartphone owners aged 18 and older accessing the service on a device running iOS, Android, or RIM operating systems via a mobile web browser or app.The data also showed that Instagram visitors sp

South Korea’s industrial output inched up in August from a year earlier, but its growth pace remained subdued apparently affected by sluggish demand amid concerns over the eurozone debt crisis and global slowdowns, a government report showed Friday.According to the report by Statistics Korea, production in the mining, manufacturing, gas and electricity industries grew 0.3 percent last month from a year earlier. It gained a revised 0.2 percent on-year in July. The output, however, shrank 0.7 perc

World’s largest memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday that it has forged a business tie-up with a Swiss semiconductor solution firm in promoting their foundry business.Samsung said that it has cooperated with STMicroelectronics N.V. in developing the 32 and 28-nano chip technology, and will continue the bilateral cooperation.Geneva-based STMicroelectronics is the seventh-largest chipmaker that designs, develops and manufactures semiconductor products used in various electronic dev

Federal laws are needed to regulate social networking sites to give users the right to determine what happens to their "digital afterlives," a U.S. expert says.Jason Mazzone, a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law, says allowing social networking sites to set policy regarding the content of accounts of deceased users does not adequately protect individual and collective inter

BERLIN (DPA) ― Samsung Electronics was on the verge of winning a court battle in Germany against Apple, a judge indicated Tuesday, as the tech giants engage in a global dispute over patents for mobile devices.The judge is considering a case in which Apple alleges that five Samsung tablet products from their Galaxy range imitate the look and feel of Apple’s iPad.Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann did not issue a verdict, but said she was not convinced that consumers would mistake the Samsung product

CUPERTINO (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Apple’s foray into mobile maps with its iPhone 5 had to do with advertising and a growing rivalry with Google, industry observers said.Apple’s iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday included a new online maps service that was “littered with flaws, some laughable,” The New York Times reported Monday.But behind the effort to compete with Google is the lucrative

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, said Friday that it will release its brand new Galaxy Note 2 phablet in Seoul next week.The official launch is earlier than the October date given by Shin Jong-kyun, head of Samsung's IT and mobile unit, at the IFA 2012 trade fair in Berlin last month when the phablet was first unveiled.The company said the start of sales