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The Secret HTC-Apple Settlement Might Not Be Quite So Secret

Last month HTC and Apple decided to play nice when they reached a settlement over a patent license. While Apple was forced to tell Samsung how much that deal was worth, it thought the rest of the case was secret—but it turns out that might not quite be the case. https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-htc-end-patent-dispute-and-agree-to-play-nice-5959533 In a court ruling…

Samsung’s Curvy Projector Is More Pocketable Than the Galaxy SIII

Designed to complement Samsung’s Galaxy line of tablets and smartphones, the company’s new EAD-R10 Mobile Beam Projector is curved like a handset, instead of the standard projector brick, so it more easily slips into your pocket. It’s just too bad its specs harken back to pocket projectors from a few years ago. With just 20…

Court Demands Samsung Pay Apple $120,000 per Day

Must be an uncomfortable moment over at Samsung headquarters right now. Just weeks after mobile division head J.K. Shin talked some seriously big game, a court in the Netherlands granted one more point to Apple in the companies’ ongoing patent lawsuits. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-were-not-backing-down-from-apple-litigation-5960449 Specifically, the judges banned any “Galaxy products that infringe on an patent describing…

Watch Samsung Stress Test Its Phones With a Jorts-Wearing Robot Ass

Hardware manufacturers putting their devices through hell to test their durability is nothing new. But this never-nude jorts-covered (jeans + shorts) robot butt created by Samsung to test how well its phones can survive accidentally being sat on shows just how far the company is willing to go. Whether or not they run the test…

Samsung Audit: No Child Labor, But So Many Other Problems

After a a Chinese labor watchdog fingered Samsung with child labor allegations, the company set to auditing its entire catalog of factories. Initial results weren’t too great, but now the final results are in—and while there’s no evidence of child labor, there are plenty more problems to worry about. https://gizmodo.com/report-underage-children-abused-in-samsung-factories-5932504 The company has inspected 105…

Apple Tells Samsung How Much Its 10-year HTC License Is Paying

Apple has been ordered to help Samsung’s legal battles a little, with a court telling it to share full details of the 10-year settlement it struck with HTC recently. Only it’s not going to be made public. Apple has already sort of complied, providing Samsung with a heavily redacted version of the deal’s terms that…

Samsung Claims the iPad Mini Infringes Its Patents

Launch a consumer electronics product these days and within a couple of weeks you can probably expect a legal challenge. Which has happened to Apple with the iPad Mini—because Samsung claims it infringes its patents. In fact, it goes even further than that, reports Verge. That whole raft of new Apple products—the iPad Mini, iPad,…

The Holodeck Is Real, and It’s in Stony Brook, NY

While we still have a ways to go before the advent of photon torpedoes and warp drives, Stony Brook University has just brought us one step closer to our Star Trek future with the unveiling of its immersive video projection system, the Reality Deck. What? Holodeck was already taken. The Reality Deck is the world’s…

The Most Unpopular Apple Employee in the World

I would have loved to have listened in on this job interview. I’m sure Mr. Sung has to take a lot of crap from wiseass Canadian Apple shoppers just because of a patent war between two companies over which he has no control. And I admire him for that. But you have to wonder—why not…

Samsung Really Wants To Know the Juicy Details of Apple’s Patent Deal with HTC

Instead of going all thermonuclear against Android handset-maker HTC, Apple signed a patent decade-long licensing deal with them. Now Samsung, which is one significantly less friendly terms with Apple, wants to know exactly what that deal was, and is filing to have it revealed. https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-htc-end-patent-dispute-and-agree-to-play-nice-5959533 Samsung’s reasoning here is that the HTC deal may very…

Courts have allowed Samsung and Apple to add iPhone 5 and Jelly Bean to their ongoing battle. Tit. For. Tat. [Bloomberg]

These Tiny, Faster Memory Chips Will Be in Your Next Phone

These are Samsung’s latest memory chips. They might not look much, but they’re 20 percent smaller and 30 percent faster than the current standard—and they’re already destined to appear in your next phone. Their secret lies in a shrinking manufacturing technique, which allows adjacent features on the chip to be packed closer together; for the…

Samsung Ativ Smart PC 500T: Don’t Expect Any Miracles

Samsung’s Ativ Smart PC tablet is supposed to be a tablet-sized tablet that can run all of your desktop apps. It is all that, sort of. But it’s also a mix of things that are impressive, tolerable, and totally unacceptable—sometimes all at once. Let’s get this out of the way first: The Ativ is less…

Samsung: We’re Not Backing Down from Apple Litigation

If your heart grew two sizes when Apple and HTC decided to settle their patent disputes with money instead of lawyers (or guns?), prepare for shrinkage. When asked if Samsung would follow suit—or lack thereof—its mobile head, J.K. Shin, gave an emphatic no. To the jousting field! It’s not like anyone expected Samsung to forgo…

WSJ: Samsung Is Betting Big on Flexible Phones

We’ve known for a while that Samsung is readying phones with flexible screens. Now, though, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it’s pushing forward with the concept more quickly than ever, in order to avoid being beaten to the finish line by other firms. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-will-sell-bendy-screen-phones-next-year-why-5854199 The new phones simply swap plastic for glass in…

Samsung’s Android-Powered Galaxy Camera Will Cost a Whopping $500

The Samsung Galaxy Camera, that bizarre Android Frankenstein cam we love to love, is going to be hitting store shelves this Friday, November 16th for a whopping $500. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-camera-hands-on-oh-please-please-bring-5945231 The crazy smart camera is coming to AT&T’s 4G network, but the $500 price tag doesn’t even include any kind of data plan; you’ll have to…

Apple’s Going to Have to Pay All of Samsung’s Legal Fees Because It Didn’t Apologize Well Enough

And Apple’s apology to Samsung as order by the UK court just got even messier. After posting an apology they had to rewrite, and then pushing the rewritten one down the page with Javascript, a UK court has ordered Apple to pay Samsung’s legal fees in full to even things out. https://gizmodo.com/apple-posts-its-apology-to-samsung-but-for-real-this-t-5956268 The Court of…

Samsung’s allegations of jury misconduct in its huge loss to Apple will have their day (December 6th) in court.

Apple Seems Slightly More Apologetic as It Removes Page Resizing Code

Apple continues to make an absolutely huge mess of apologising to Samsung, with the Javascript that initially hid the legal correction from view now removed from the UK site so its half-arsed apology is a little more visible. Apple’s initial apology to Samsung over its iPad copying claims was ruled incorrect and had to be…

Add Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 and Android 4.1 to the list of products Apple claims violate its patents. [Bloomberg]