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Samsung trumps Apple in Q3 smartphone sales

Oct 21, 2011

(Yonhap News)Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market by more than 10 million handsets during the third quarter of the year, industry data showed Friday.According to the data, Samsung Electronics sold about 27 million smartphones during the July-to-Sept. period, wh
Samsung denies decision on iPhone 4S suit

Oct 20, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said nothing had been decided over whether to file a preliminary injunction against Apple’s iPhone 4S in South Korea, amid intensifying speculation that a sales ban is likely.If implemented, such a ban would likely have a huge impact on the local handset market. T
US woman shocked by $200,000 cell phone bill

Oct 19, 2011

MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent mobile phone bill: she owed $201,000.It was no mistake.Celina Aarons has her two brothers on her plan. They are deaf and cannot speak, so the easiest way for them to communicate is by texting. Normally, that's not a problem. Aarons h
Samsung heir, Apple chief discuss long-term parts cooperation

Oct 19, 2011

As Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. wage legal battles across the world, two of their top executives have met to discuss long-term parts cooperation and maintaining existing partnerships. (Yonhap News)Lee Jae-yong, chief operating officer (COO) of Samsung Electronics said Wednesday he had disc
Samsung boosts smartphone clout

Oct 18, 2011

Tech giant to unveil Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong this WednesdaySamsung Electronics is moving to further expand its market share in smartphones, while continuing its patent fight against rival Apple Inc.On Wednesday Samsung is to unveil a new smartphone dubbed the “Galaxy Nexus,” which will run on the
Apple sells 4M-plus new iPhone models in 3 days

Oct 18, 2011

The Leon Guerrero family, on vacation from Dallas, show off their new Apple iPhone 4S phones they purchased at a Sprint store in San Francisco. Apple said Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, it sold more than 4 million units of the new iPhone model in three days. It's selling more than twice as fast as the previ
Mobile Web surfing gains momentum among Korean users

Oct 16, 2011

The red-hot boom of smartphones in South Korea is reshaping the way people surf the Web, heralding changes in the cyberspace in favor of greater mobile access rather than conventional media such as desktop and laptop computers. The proportion of those accessing major Korean portals and social networ
Samsung heir to attend Jobs memorial service at Stanford

Oct 16, 2011

Lee Jae-yong, chief operating officer of Samsung Electronics Co., is planning to attend a memorial service for Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple Inc., in the U.S. this weekend, industrial sources said Sunday.Lee, the only son of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, has been invited by Ap
iPhone’s Siri voice command to reach Korean users next year

Oct 16, 2011

Apple Inc. is expected to offer a Korean-language version of its Siri voice command feature starting in 2012, the U.S.-based technology giant said Saturday.The company said on its website that it will begin offering Siri services in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Spanish starting next year,
New iPhone launch turns into remembrance for Jobs

Oct 15, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't just the latest iPhone that drew people to Apple stores Friday.Many consumers waited in lines for hours — sometimes enduring chilly temperatures and overnight thunderstorms — to remember Steve Jobs, Apple's visionary who died last week.The company's first
Apple scoffs at Samsung’s mobile patent infringement claim

Oct 14, 2011

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- A lawyer for Apple Inc. said Friday that Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile patent lacks novelty and was not invented by the Korean firm, the iPhone maker’s latest attempt to counter the accusation that it is using its rival’s technology without permission. The latest court showdown
Google said to seek rights from record labels for online store

Oct 14, 2011

Google Inc. is seeking agreements with record companies by the end of the month to start a music store that will compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes, three people with knowledge of the talks said. Google is seeking permission to sell downloads and to stream purchased music to its customers' devices, sa
Apple wins ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia

Oct 13, 2011

SYDNEY, Oct 13, 2011 (AFP) - US technology giant Apple on Thursday won a temporary ban on Samsung selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia after launching legal action on the grounds that it copied Apple's top-selling iPad.The Federal Court handed down its long-awaited judgement in Sydney but said t
BlackBerry outages spread to North America

Oct 12, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the phones, said users in the Americas `
Samsung replaces smartphone feature to bypass Dutch ban

Oct 12, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, said Wednesday that it has replaced a feature in its Galaxy smartphones to avoid a sales ban in the Netherlands.The company, which is locked in a series of legal battles with Apple Inc. over mobile patents and design, faced a sales ban i