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Conan Comedy Clip Satirizes Samsung’s Apple Jealousy

At this point, the Apple v. Samsung trial has become something of a joke—at least to the hyper aware tech community. “Crisis of design,” you say? Oh for crying out loud. And now, the late night crowd is ready for comment as well. Conan, tonight, aired a video short satirizing Samsung’s gimlet-eyed Apple affinity, with…

Here Is the Entire 132-Page Samsung Internal Report Apple Released into Evidence Today

It’s quite a whopper, 132-pages of envy and scheming. In sum, this internal document compiled by Samsung is a long, slobbering iPhone jealousy fest. A highly detailed and deliberate comparison of Samsung’s Galaxy against Apple’s coveted iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-exposes-its-blatant-iphone-jealousy-5932479 Reinventing the wheel is so damn hard. Hmmph. 44 [AllThingsD]

Report: Underage Children Abused in Samsung Factories

A new report by a Chinese labor watchdog makes Apple’s Foxconn woes look like a game of spin the bottle, Laptop Mag reports. Untreated injuries? Check. Dangerous workplace? Check. Hitting children and forcing them to stand? Check. This is bad. The report chronicles the inner workings of HEG Electronics, which manufactures gadgets on behalf of…

Samsung Exposes Its Blatant iPhone Jealousy

In the legal battle between Apple and Samsung, the latter’s fate rests on how much it can claim it never needed or wanted to plagiarize. But after reading memos like these, that’s going to be very, very hard to buy. AllThingsD relays some highly humiliating internal documents recently squeezed out of Samsung in court—and they…

How Samsung Maybe Copied Apple’s iOS Icons Just a Tiny Bit

On day three of the Apple versus Samsung patent lawsuit battle to the death extravaganza, Apple presented some pretty convincing evidence that Samsung copied its trademarked iOS icons. Look at the contacts icon above. OK so maybe Samsung’s icon is a horrible orange color and there are two binder rings instead of many, but it…

An Enormous Galaxy Note For Stylus-Wielding Arty Types

If you were a fan of the original stylus-packing Galaxy Note, but always thought that 5.3-inches was just too small: good news. Samsung’s finally released the long-awaited quad-core 10.1-inch version of the Note, and you should be able to get your hands on it by the end of this month. Samsung’s not messing around with…

Samsung Wants Your Old Phones If You Want Their New Ones

When you get a new phone, you might not have any use for the old one. Samsung apparently does, because they’re willing to offer you cold, hard cash for it. There are plenty of ways to dump an old phone, like painstakingly putting it up on eBay, or shipping it off to Gazelle. But if…

Project Purple: Scott Forstall Tells All About the iPhone’s Creation

The Apple vs. Samsung case has been druging up all kinds of secrets. Today, in his testimony, Senior VP of iOS Software Scott Forstall had some interesting things to say about the iPhone’s secretive development back in 2004. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-real-original-ipad-prototype-in-all-its-fat-g-5927173 Tasked with building a super-team by Steve Jobs, Forstall carefully selected the individuals best suited to…

Samsung thinks kids call the iPhone Home Button a “Bellybutton.” What the hell is going on in that courtroom? [Twitter]

After the iPod’s success, Apple SVP Phil Schiller says people wanted the company to make a car. Huh? [Twitter]

Samsung’s New TV-Phone Brings Antennae Back To Mobile

If limited data plans are getting you down, there’s a new alternative that makes use of some old tech. How about picking up good, old-fashioned broadcast TV? For the most part, MetroPCS’ Samsung Galaxy S Lightray, is a pretty standard 4G-capable phone with a 1GHz processor, 4.3″ display, and 8MP camera and whatnot. But on…

Even Bigger Galaxy Note Set to Launch August 29th

Samsung’s updated Galaxy Note is on the way, with Samsung confirming that its Galaxy Note 2 is scheduled to be the star of its showing at this year’s IFA trade show. As we saw with the amazing amount of fuss generated by the Galaxy S III announcement, Samsung’s not actually calling the phone the Galaxy…

Judge to Samsung: You Can’t Use Sci-Fi Films as Evidence in Court

Samsung has a tough time on its hands battling Apple over tablet patents. But in the process of fighting hard, it seems to have made some questionable calls when it comes to choosing evidence—including the use of sci-fi footage to prove its case. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-exec-finds-fighting-over-rectangles-unreasona-5930338 Samsung had hoped that it could use footage from 2001: A…

Samsung’s New Superfast Chips Could Fuel Your Future iPhone

Samsung has just announced some superfast new chips and they might one day power an iPhone. The company claims the Pro Class 1500 line is the Usain Bolt of flash memory cards—four times speedier than predecessors, and possibly the fastest chips around. They can read data at 140 MB per second and write it at…

Samsung Throws a Temper Tantrum in Court Battle Against Apple and Leaks Dismissed Evidence to the Press

When a judge decides to dismiss evidence you feel would make your case in a patent lawsuit, you have one of two options: a) You can sit back and deal with it like a timid little tktkt or b) you can fire back and choose another public-facing channel to disseminate your information. Samsung chose the…

Samsung Exec Finds “Fighting Over Rectangles” Unreasonable

There are many, many accusations being tossed back and forth between Apple and Samsung. There have been for months, there will continue to be. But perhaps none of them has perfectly distilled the fight that the two megacorps are having quite like Samsung’s Chief Product Officer Kevin Packingham did in an interview today with Wired.…

Apple Claims This 2005 iPhone Prototype Proves It Didn’t Copy Sony

Last week, it came to light that Samsung was planning to attack Apple based on the fact that its iPhone design copied Sony products—and the evidence was convincing. But now the Verge has uncovered Apple’s response, which suggests there were convincing iPhone prototypes kicking around well before the Sony-esque model was dreamt up. https://gizmodo.com/proof-that-the-iphone-4-could-have-been-a-sony-product-5929630 In…

Is The Latest Apple-Samsung Court Case Really All About Google?

In a court case kicking off today in San Jose, Apple is tackling Samsung over software and hardware patent infringements in an attempt to win over $2.5 billion in damages. But behind all the claims and counter-claims, is this court case really a fight between Apple and Google? https://gizmodo.com/google-told-samsung-not-to-copy-apple-5929205 In an interesting Wall Street Journal…

Microsoft Totally Knows That Surface Will Screw Over PC Makers

By making Microsoft Surface, the potential tablet and PC wunderkind, Microsoft was sort of, kind of acknowledging that PC Makers, Microsoft’s hardware partners, suck at what they do. Which is sort of, kind of true. In order for Windows 8 to be great, Microsoft needed to make sure the hardware was just as great as…

Apple and Samsung Can’t Even Agree on Where to Sit in Court

Apple and Samsung are gearing up for one of their largest legal battles to date, which centers around their devices looking incredibly similar. But before things can start, they still need to agree on where to sit in court—which is proving more complicated than you might expect. https://gizmodo.com/google-told-samsung-not-to-copy-apple-5929205 All Things D reports that the problem…