The current patent infringement case between giant smartphone makers Apple and Samsung has coughed out several newsworthy numbers, with the court forcing both companies to turn in their financial records.
AllThingsD was able to snap up some documents filed on Thursday that revealed Apple and Samsung shipments in the US market, an action initiated by the former to establish how the latter impeded sales of iPhones.
Based on the statistics found in the filings, the Cupertino-based tech giant sold …

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus UK are now rejoicing as the South Korean tech giant has begun rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ICS update in the country.
The move comes as Samsung tablet users worldwide continue to wait for the ICS update even as ICS has been launched by Google and Samsung in October 2011 and its successor, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, was introduced in June this

In a significant win for Samsung against rival Apple in their legal war, a judge has just ordered the Cupertino, California-based iPad-maker to advertise that Samsung did not copy the design of their massively-popular tablet computer.
High Court of Justice, Chancery Division Judge Colin Birss has ordered Apple to run a notice on its website in the UK as well as high-circulation publications saying that Samsung did not copy the design of the

A judge in the U.K. has handed Samsung with its Galaxy Tab tablets a double-edged win against Apple.
While ruling that the design of Galaxy Tab devices does not infringe on Apple’s design patent, Judge Colin Birss said the Samsung tablets “are not as cool” as the iPad.
According to a report from Bloomberg, the Judge said that the Samsung Galaxy Tab computers “do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design.”
“They are not as cool,” …

New kid on the tablet block Amazon is causing waves and big ones at that. In a recent survey conducted by Flurry, the Amazon Kindle Fire has accelerated over the past 4 months to overtake the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the tablet with the most engagement. The study, which measured the amount of time users spent on each application shows that users of the Amazon Kindle Fire are spending more time on apps than those using the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
This is big news because this numbers are despite the …

Apple has only made the Samsung Galaxy Tab more popular in Australia, a high-ranking official of the consumer electronics giant has recently said.
The comment came from Tyler McGee, Samsung Australia’s vice president of telecommunications, in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald.
According to McGee, Apple’s lawsuit to ban the sale of the Galaxy Tab in the country has only made the Samsung tablet a “household name”.
“At the end of the day the media awareness certainly made the …

Samsung can finally start selling its Galaxy Tab line of tablet computers in Australia as a court on Friday lifted a sales ban which was implemented at the request of Apple.
According to a report from the Agence France-Presse, the temporary injunction on the Galaxy Tab line was lifted by the Australia High Court on Friday after hearing Apple’s appeal which extended the injunction.
On November 30, an Australian federal court reversed a previous ruling ordering the discontinuance of sales for …

Despite a court ruling reversing a previous ruling in Australia banning the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab line of tablet computers in the country, Apple has again managed to extend the previous injunction on Samsung tablets in the country.
According to a report from Australian news organization ABC, “Apple has won another temporary injunction to stop rival Samsung from selling its Galaxy tablet computer in Australia.”
Apple took advantage of a condition in the ruling which was handed down …

An Australian court has reversed a previously-granted sales ban at the request of Apple on the Samsung Galaxy Tab line of tablet computers in the country.
According to a report from Reuters, the decision of the Federal Court was handed down on Wednesday.
Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab line of tablets was granted on October, banning the sales of the tablet computers from the South Korean consumer electronics giant in Australia.
Reuters says that Justice …

The Amazon Kindle Fire has sparked interest with developers coming from North America, a new study reveals.

North American developers are most interested in the Amazon Kindle Fire to develop apps for. Image: Amazon

According to a new report from research firm IDC and Appcelerator, the Kindle Fire edged the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the tablet developers are most interested in making apps for.
The study reveals that 49 percent of respondents said they were very interested in developing apps for …