Apple may finally be directly gunning for Android as it told a judge recently that the mobile operating system infringes on patented technology it owns.
According to Bloomberg, Apple told US Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewald on Tuesday that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean should be added to a case the iPhone maker filed against Samsung.
Furthermore, Apple sought to add the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet to its case against Samsung in San Jose, California.
The two companies have been at each other’s …

Apple’s revised message to Samsung has appeared in UK papers.
On Thursday, November 1, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ordered Apple to rewrite its original message to the South Korean smartphone maker. The American tech giant wangled words from the first version to take a jab at its rival for releasing products nowhere near the iPad and for losing similar patent infringement cases in other courtrooms.
While Apple claimed it would take two weeks to create a revised copy …

After the Samsung Galaxy S3 hit the market to much fanfare a few months ago, the smartphone industry went abuzz as millions of consumers burst forth to grab the most feature-packed mobile device to date.
Later, rumors began to build up about the South Korean smartphone maker capitalizing the popularity of its latest innovation with a smaller version of the S3.
Staying true to reports from several media outlets, Samsung then officially introduced the Galaxy S3 Mini, pitching it as a smaller S3 …

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Premier, an Android smartphone that offers budget-minded consumers the premium experience of the South Korean company’s Galaxy range at a reasonable price.
Packing the latest, innovative hardware and software features, the Galaxy Premier gives users high expectations from the Samsung Galaxy lineup of Android devices. Face-detection software, voice-activated apps and seamless multimedia sharing – all contained in a cutting-edge, fine-tuned, minimalist design …

Boosted by its strong mobile division, Samsung Electronics reports a record operating profit of 8.12 trillion Won (about $7.4 billion) and a record net profit of 6.56 trillion Won (approximately $5.9 billion) for the third quarter of the year.
Both operating profit and net profit grew an impressive 91 percent compared to the Samsung’s performance for the year-ago third quarter.
Revenue for Samsung Electronics for the third quarter was 52.18 trillion Won (about $47.5 billion) marking a 26 …

The US International Trade Commission (US ITC), in an initial determination, sided with Apple saying Samsung has violated four patents the iPhone maker holds.
According to an initial ruling filed by administrative law judge Thomas Pender, the ITC said that Samsung is violating a patent for the front design of the iPhone and three other patents covering software technology which includes touch-screen.
The initial determination marks another win for Apple after it trounced Samsung in a landmark …

Samsung has won another battle against Apple this time in a Dutch court which ruled that the South Korean tech powerhouse does not infringe on Apple’s patent covering the pinch-to-zoom feature.
According to the court in The Hague, Netherlands, with Samsung products including Galaxy smartphones and tablets, Samsung “does not infringe the claims that Apple has made,” Reuters says.
The win marks successive losses for Apple regarding the pinch-to-zoom feature and patent.
Last year, Apple also …

The tech industry may see the iPad Mini having shortages for quite some time as Apple’s long-standing row with Samsung may affect supply for the recently-launched Apple tablet.
That’s according to NPD DisplaySearch in an interview with CNET.
According to the Richard Shim, an analyst with the research firm, the fact that Samsung is not a supplier of the screen for the iPad Mini may result in supply constraints.
“We’re now starting to see the issues that [Apple] is having with …

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected all twenty claims that cover Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent which was used by the iPhone-maker against its recent successful lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in California.
The rejection comes to light via Florian Mueller of Foss Patents who first published a blog about the rejections.
The patent, officially titled “List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display” (US Patent Number …

Apple is being forced to reveal to the world one if not its biggest secret: how much profit the company makes on each iPhone.
Judge Lucy Koh of the US District Court of San Jose has ordered Apple to bare product-specific (read: iPhone-specific, iPad-specific, etc.) information including profit margin.
That’s telling the company to say exactly how profitable the iPhone is per unit.
In a filing on Wednesday, Judge Koh denied Apple’s motion to seal or redact certain information from its …