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  • Samsung goes from strength to strength

    Samsung has posted profit growth for the sixth straight quarter. Its mobile phone division – which accounts for nearly three quarters of its entire profit… 26/04/2013

  • Huge handset or smallish tablet?

    Samsung has unveiled its latest – and biggest ever smartphone – the Galaxy Mega. It has a 6.3 inch screen (16 centimetres); though for people with smaller… 12/04/2013

  • Samsung boosted by soaring smartphone sales

    Brisk smartphone sales meant Samsung has predicted its operating profit in the first three months of the year will have risen by 53 percent to the equivalent… 05/04/2013

  • Game of Phones takes Samsung to Broadway

    Samsung’s latest all-singing all-dancing smart phone has been unveiled – on Broadway, with a series of skits to illustrate its features performed by actors… 15/03/2013

  • Samsung throws Sharp a lifeline

    South Korea’s Samsung is buying a three percent stake in troubled Japanese electronics firm Sharp, which had to be bailed out by its banks last… 06/03/2013

  • Apple suffers setback in damages battle with Samsung

    Hi-tech giant Samsung has welcomed a US court ruling ordering $1bn ( 762m euros) damages awarded to Apple last year to be cut by 40 per cent. A California… 02/03/2013

  • Mobile and tablet annual tech fest in Barcelona

    It is a busy start for the Mobile World Congress – Barcelona’s annual tech event. Vying for the attentions of the visitors are offerings from 1,500… 25/02/2013

  • Mobile phone sales down in 2012 says Gartner

    Sales of mobile phones fell last year for the first time since 2009. The research company Gartner said that was due to “tough economic conditions, shifting… 13/02/2013

  • Samsung sells 700,000 smartphones a day

    Samsung continues to be the high flyer in the smartphone world. It sold 63 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of last year – 700,000 a day – and… 25/01/2013

  • Nokia dials down dividends

    Faced with falling sales, Nokia has said it will not pay an annual dividend to shareholders. The Finnish handset maker is having to conserve its cash… 24/01/2013

  • Galaxy phones power Samsung to record profit

    Selling almost 500 handsets a minute, Samsung has predicted its fourth quarter profit will be the equivalent of 6.3 billion euros. The world leader in… 08/01/2013

  • 2012 – a boom year for mobile and tablets apps

    Photo credit FlickR/philcampbell Last year was the best year yet for mobile and tablet apps, now key players in the digital world. If Angry Birds… 08/01/2013

  • Apple ordered to share deal details

    A United States judge has ordered Apple to disclose to rival Samsung details of a legal settlement it reached with HTC including terms of a 10-year patents… 22/11/2012

  • Samsung profits soar again, but can it last?

    South Korea’s Samsung has posted a fourth straight record quarterly profit – the equivalent of 5.74 billion euros. Strong demand for its Galaxy smartphones… 26/10/2012

  • Smartphones swell Samsung profits

    Samsung Electronics has beaten market expectations for Q3 boosting operating profit by a whopping 85 percent. The world’s largest technology company by… 05/10/2012

  • Apple’s shares rise on new iPhones orders

    With its latest iPhone Apple’s back in the running after dropping behind Samsung in sales in between July and September. Analysts say many delayed people… 18/09/2012

  • Winner and losers from the Samsung Apple clash

    Samsung’s big loss to Apple in a potentially game changing US patent lawsuit over smartphones meant a dramatic fall in the South Korean company’s shares in… 27/08/2012

  • Samsung launch hopes to challenge iPad

    The tablet battle has entered a new round. Samsung has just launched its latest Galaxy tablet computer offering in three major markets looking to catch up… 16/08/2012

  • Apple and Samsung battle goes to court

    A court in California has become the focal point of the long-running Apple versus Samsung battle as jury selection began. The two technology giants go… 30/07/2012

  • Apple hopes for hefty damages in Samsung battle

    Apple wants just over two billion euros damages in its legal battle against Samsung over patents for technology used in smartphones and tablets. That figure… 24/07/2012

  • Hello Mr Chips – ASML’s gamble

    ASML, Europe’s largest chip-equipment maker for the semiconductor industry, is inviting its customers to financially back its research and development… 10/07/2012

  • Samsung enjoys galactically good sales

    Soaring sales of its Galaxy smartphone drove Samsung’s quarterly profit to a record. The South Korean technology giant made the equivalent of 4.76 billion… 06/07/2012

  • Samsung gets head start on iPhone

    Samsung has launched its top-of-the-range Galaxy S3 smartphone in Europe – aiming to steal a march on Apple before it releases its new iPhone later in the… 29/05/2012

  • Boost for STMicroelectronics

    STMicroelectronics got a boost on the markets from a smartphone contract and the French-Italian microchip giant ended Tuesday as the biggest winner on the… 22/05/2012

  • Samsung ousts Nokia as new king of mobile

    Samsung has dialling up success overtaking Nokia as the world’s top mobile phone seller, while sales of its Galaxy smartphones beat out Apple’s iPhone at the… 27/04/2012

  • Barcelona says hola to phone folk

    The phones that in the future you will be talking into, texting on, browsing the internet, playing music and taking photos with have been unveiled at the… 27/02/2012

  • Yet another Apple v Samsung patent law suit

    Apple has raised the stakes in its growing patent battle with Samsung. Alleging four patent violations, Apple has asked a federal court in California to… 13/02/2012

  • Samsung loses one of many patent cases with Apple

    Samsung has suffered a setback in its tablet and smartphone battle with Apple. A German court has ruled against the South Korean company in a patent case… 20/01/2012

  • Samsung calls in record profit

    South Korea’s Samsung has reported a record quarterly operating profit — the equivalent of 3.5 billion euros. The world’s leading maker of memory chips and… 06/01/2012

  • Samsung takes a bite out of Apple

    Samsung Electronics is set to resume selling its Galaxy tablet computer in Australia as early as Friday, after it won a rare legal victory in a long-running… 30/11/2011

  • Samsung pips Apple

    The South Korean electronics giant Samsung has overtaken Apple to become the world’s top maker of smartphones. Latest figures show it shipped nearly 28… 28/10/2011

  • Samsung unveils latest Android phone

    Samsung has unveiled its first smartphone running on Google’s latest version of the Android operating system. It will enable the South Korean company to… 19/10/2011

  • Apple’s share tank on disappointing iPhone sales

    Disappointing iPhone sales in the run-up to the Christmas holidays caused Apple’s shares to tumble 12 percent on Thursday. The sell-off was sparked by… 24/01/2013

  • Nexus US sales ban overturned

    An appeal court in the United States has overturned a ban on the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone. It is all part of a multi-faceted battle over… 12/10/2012

  • Samsung beats Apple in Japan

    Samsung has won the latest court battle in the international legal tussle with rival Apple over smartphones and computer tablets. A court in Japan ruled… 31/08/2012

  • Samsung shares tumble after Apple’s US court victory

    Shares in Samsung Electronics fell more than seven per cent on the Seoul Stock Exchange on Monday, on the first day of trading since Friday’s legal defeat in… 27/08/2012

  • Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn for copying its products

    A US jury on Friday ruled that some of Samsung’s flagship mobile devices copied designs and software features from Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The nine jurors… 25/08/2012

  • Apple and Samsung fined over patent breaches in South Korea

    Apple and Samsung have been fined, after a South Korean court ruled that they had breached each other’s patents on mobile devices. But a judge said that… 24/08/2012

  • Apple told to admit Samsung did not copy iPad

    Apple has been ordered to release advertisements saying ‘Samsung did not copy the iPad’ in a latest British court ruling over the ongoing patent battles… 19/07/2012

  • Mobile mania in Barcelona

    The Battle of Barcelona is underway as the world’s high-tech giants exhibit their latest gadgets at the Mobile World Congress. The event is expected to draw… 01/03/2012

  • Fans turn Apple founder’s house into shrine

    A day after the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, his house in Palo Alto, California, has become a shrine more akin to that of a dead rock star than a… 07/10/2011


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