Looks like delaying Apple court sessions is becoming a trend. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh late Tuesday granted Samsung’s motion to put a damages retrial on hold until the Supreme Court can review the case. The trial was scheduled to start Monday in San Jose, California, and would have taken about a week. The delay …
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Apple’s years-long fight with Samsung Electronics over design patents will make its way to the US Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court on Monday agreed to review the case, the first time it has looked at a design patent case since the 1800s. Samsung filed a request with the Supreme Court in December to re-examine the case after losing in …
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You’re probably not going to die any time soon (knock on wood), but it’s never a bad idea to prepare for the worst. Your will may take care of who gets your car when you pass away, but what about who gets your Facebook account? Or who’s allowed to access your Gmail data? Managing your digital afterlife can be tough, …
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A US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a 2014 jury verdict that had found Samsung Electronics infringed on three of Apple’s patents and had awarded the iPhone maker $119.6 million. Apple originally had sought $2.2 billion, claiming Samsung infringed on eight software patents. Apple maintained that Samsung infringed on patents for sliding to unlock the phone, autocorrecting text …
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Despite troubles convincing Google that its app is legit, Brave Software’s browser is now available to anyone who is sick of annoying mobile ads. Apple added Brave for iPhones and iPads to its app store on Friday, but Google rejected the app twice before publishing Brave for Android devices in the Google Play app store Tuesday night. Google’s opposition, which …
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Walking through Google’s campus on a warm February afternoon, Hiroshi Lockheimer pauses and points to two tourists smiling at their outstretched selfie stick. The world-famous Googleplex is always filled with tourists, who come to gawk and admire the sprawling headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. “Ten years ago, I would have never imagined that,” he says laughing, as we …
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Hola, Galaxy S7. That’s what Samsung will be saying later today when it shows off its newest flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The South Korean electronics giant has used the trade show as the venue for its Unpacked events over the past several years. This year’s event is sure to be brimming with news about its …
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A gleaming black-and-white Gear VR headset rests on each of the 5,000 seats in a Barcelona convention hall. About 10 minutes into Samsung’s Unpacked press conference, we’re told to put on the virtual reality goggles. What we see is a virtual unboxing of the venue, with the ceiling floating into space and the floor falling away to reveal Samsung’s newest …
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One moment I’m in a room full of people, the next I’m in the sun-scorched Australian Outback. But it takes more than the fancy graphics of the Samsung Gear VR virtual-reality headset I’ve just lowered over my head to convince me I’m really hanging out with aborigines. What it takes, says Richard Marks of Sony’s VR arm, PlayStation Magic Lab, …
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Apple sure isn’t impressed by Samsung’s Supreme Court plea. On Thursday, the iPhone maker filed its response to Samsung’s request for the US Supreme Court to examine the patent infringement suit between the two electronics giants. And shocker, it doesn’t want this thing to drag out. Apple argued that the case is “legally unexceptional” and asked the court not to …
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