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Samsung Teams Up With Yahoo For Interactive TV Service

Samsung has just teamed up with Yahoo, creating a multi-year partnership that will bring the search company’s interactive Connected TV platform to Sammy’s 2012 lineup of smart TVs Connected TV—software that brings interactive content like trivia, program statistics and playable games to the shows you’re watching—hasn’t gotten off to the best of starts so far.…

Apple Hides Its Latest Samsung Apology With Some Clever Code

The saga of Apple’s court-enforced public apology to Samsung continues. The first, newspaper-printed mea culpa read as too tongue-in-cheek for the judge’s liking. Now it turns out that the follow-up, a condensed contrition on the Apple Store’s UK home page, has come with a few caveats as well. Namely, that you have to go hunting…

Apple Posts Its Apology To Samsung, But For Real This Time

After trying to be snarky and biting with its court ordered apology to Samsung, and being reprimanded by the UK court and told to fix it, Apple has now put a second, simple, much less back-handledly “Samsung’s dumb and we’re the coolest” apology on their UK webpage. Hopefully this will be the end of it.…

All the Windows Phone 8 Handsets That Have Been Announced So Far

Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8 today, and we happen to think it’s pretty darn good. Here’s a rundown of all the latest information we’ve got about the Windos Phone 8 handsets available from HTC, Nokia, and Samsung very soon. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-8-review-youre-not-perfect-but-i-like-y-5955792 HTC 8X Key Specs: 1.5 GHZ dual-core Qualcomm S4, 1GB RAM, 4.5 ounces, 5.2…

Galaxy Note II Review: Bigger Got a Lot Better

When the Galaxy Note came out earlier this year, well, it was a giant, laggy jumble with a bum stylus. But the Note II might just have what it takes to win over our cold, size-ist hearts. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-note-lightning-review-wait-who-ordered-5886054 Note: Testing was done on the T-Mobile and AT&T versions of this phone. It is also coming…

Samsung now ships two smartphones for every iPhone Apple sells. [Register]

Apple Posts Its Apology to Samsung Online, in Arial

Last week Apple lost an appeal against a UK High Court of Justice ruling, and was told to post a public apology to Samsung. In Arial. Now it’s popped up online. https://gizmodo.com/apple-forced-to-run-public-apology-in-14pt-arial-5952790 The apology isn’t a friendly “sorry I screwed up”, but a rather long, dull passage of legalese. No surprise, really, but it is…

Rumor: This Nexus 10 User Manual Leaks Google’s 10-Inch Tablet

A Korean gadget site has posted images of a user manual for a device called a Samsung Nexus 10 that looks much like an oversized Nexus 7. Could this—along with that new Nexus phone—be what Google is announcing on Monday? https://gizmodo.com/google-is-announcing-something-new-with-android-on-octo-5952719 The pictures don’t offer much in the way of hard intel beyond that in…

Samsung’s new smart TVs will pack Amazon’s Instant Video app, adding to an already-decent streaming arsenal. [Bloomberg]

Samsung Suggests You Make and Share Sex Tapes in Latest Ad

Samsung’s latest Galaxy SIII ad starts off all cutesy: a family guy heading off on a work trip, saying goodbye to his young family. His kids have even made him a cute video to watch on the plane, and his wife has… hey now, his wife has been rather more adventurous. Of course, we may…

Ugh, Verizon Plastered Its Logo on the Samsung Galaxy Note II Home Button

This is awful. Utterly, completely, corporate suit wearing, slicked back hair smelling, awful. Verizon stamped its logo on top of the new Samsung Galaxy Note II. Do you see it? Yes. That’s right, the Verizon logo is on the freaking phone’s home button. Covering it. Are you kidding me. It looks like a joke or…

How the iPad Mini Stacks Up to the Competition (Updated)

So, the iPad mini is here at last! Smaller tablets have already carved out a real niche for themselves, and if you’ve always wanted an iPad but were scared off by its size, then maybe this is the day you’ve been waiting for. Or maybe Apple waited too long. There are already a bunch of…

The US Patent Office Has Invalidated Apple’s Bounce Scroll Patent

Foss Patents is reporting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively invalidated Apple’s bounce scroll—sometimes referred to as “rubber banding”—patent possibly affecting the recent ruling in the Apple v. Samsung trial. The patent in question concerns the bounce scroll feature in iOS: scroll too far, and whatever you’re looking at bounces back into…

Samsung Refutes Report and Says That It Will Still Sell LCD Panels to Apple

Earlier today, The Korea Times reported that Samsung would stop selling LCD panels to Apple. That report seems to be wrong. Samsung has come out to say that, “Samsung Display has never tried to cut the supply for LCD panels to Apple.” https://gizmodo.com/report-samsung-wont-sell-lcd-panels-to-apple-anymore-5953747 Basically: if the LCD panel relationship has ended between Apple and Samsung…

Report: Samsung Won’t Sell LCD Panels to Apple Anymore

The Korea Times reports that Samsung will stop providing Apple with LCD panels next year. According to an unnamed “senior Samsung source,” the company is unwilling to sell displays to Apple at the steep discounts of some of its competitors like LG. At the beginning of this year, Samsung was the single largest supplier of…

Apple Forced to Run Public Apology in 14pt Arial

Having lost its appeal against the UK High Court of Justice’s ruling, which decided Samsung’s tablet designs didn’t infringe on the iPad, Apple is being forced to make a public apology. The best bit? The judge in question has described how it has to do it. Apple will have to post notices on its website,…

Report: Apple’s Trying to Wean Itself Off of Samsung’s Chips

While Apple and Samsung have been duking it out over patents, there’s always been the quiet, underlying irony that Samsung makes a whole bunch of the chips Apple relies on. Now, according to reports from CNET and MacRumors, Apple’s trying to change that. It’s not exactly surprising. Apple already hired a big chip designer out…

Apple Hires Away Top Samsung CPU Designer to Build Custom Apple Chips

Apple just took a big step toward upping its chip-making game, and took a big swipe at Samsung in the process. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cupertino’s hired away Jim Mergard, a well respected and vastly experienced engineer, from the Korean company. The move is a big deal for a few reasons. First, it…

Why the Galaxy S III Mini Is a Major Letdown

The Galaxy S III is one of the best phones you can buy. It’s fast, it’s beautiful, it’s got guts most handsets can only dream of. Which is why it’s so disappointing—inexplicable, even—that Samsung’s Galaxy S III mini isn’t just the same, but smaller. It’s a lesser phone in every conceivable way. And that sucks.…

The Galaxy S III Mini Is Official, and Officially Boring

We got really excited yesterday when we heard there would be a miniaturized Galaxy S III coming. Our excitement didn’t last long, because a second rumor hinted that the specs wouldn’t be anywhere close to the original S III. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-launching-new-four-inch-galaxy-s-iii-mini-tomor-5950454 We held out some hope that the second rumor might be wrong. Sadly, it wasn’t.…