Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts
Patent war: Samsung puts water in his wine against Apple in Europe
Significant change in tone from Samsung. In its global fight against Apple, the world number one has decided to put water in his wine. He announces in effect waive all claims Ban apple products in Europe.
This decision concerns the ongoing proceedings in Germany, UK, Italy, the Netherlands and France. However, "this decision does not affect the proceedings already underway in Europe" for patent infringement, said the manufacturer.
Struck by a kind of pragmatism flash, Samsung says that he prefers "to compete with other companies on the market, rather than the courts."
I must say that the context is a little different today. While Samsung has been heavily condemned this summer in the United States for patent infringement, but Apple has failed to prohibit its products on American soil.
At the same time, the South Korean widening the gap with his nemesis in the field of smartphones with a global share of 28% against 20%. In some countries such as France, the gap is even greater: 37% against 22%.
With its strategy to increase referrals and pincer grip, Samsung has finally got his goal behind the apple. Why then lose millions of dollars in endless procedures?
Samsung shows smartphone with 5-inch display and dual SIM
The Galaxy is Grand. The biggest classic smartphone from Samsung, the 5-inch screen even surpasses that of the current top model Galaxy S3 Only the pin Smartphone score 2 is even greater. Particularly sharp the display with 800 × 480 pixels is not, however, this resolution already offer discounted smartphones with smaller screens.
Otherwise the device meets the Android middle class: It is equipped with an unspecified dual-core processor at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal flash memory. The micro SD card slot up to 64 GB can be used on the back there is a camera with 8 megapixels. The battery capacity is 2100 mAh with comparatively high, possible terms of the manufacturer calls previously not.
Samsung confirms high overtime in Chinese suppliers
Samsung has delivered to the Reuters news agency a statement of poor working conditions at its Chinese suppliers. Thus Samsung confirmed by our own investigations, that in some cases due to high product demand led to long hours. Some workers were paid by long shifts and weekend work up to 32 hours of overtime per week, with continued demand from it were sometimes 100 hours of overtime per month. The labor rights organization China Labor Watch (CLW) had earlier reported that some workers pushed daily 16-hour shifts - in just one day off per month.
Samsung manufactures claims to be more than 40 percent of its products in China, but relies primarily on its own factories and employees
Samsung expands lead in the U.S. mobile market
In the U.S., Samsung leads the mobile phone market, according to data from market analysts comScore continues to go unchallenged. Apple closed the gap and takes the second place with now. Rounding out the top five are still LG, Motorola and HTC, but all with decreasing market share. These conditions are reflected in part also reflected in the market share of mobile operating systems: Google does with Android, Apple iOS follows with, while RIM, Microsoft and Symbian are repulsed.
comScore U.S. registered a total 121.3 million mobile phone users. Of these, 51.9 percent smartphones. From July, the last survey, and October, the proportion had increased by 6 percent. During this time is sorted according to comScore, the top five players to easily. Samsung's share rose accordingly by 0.7 percent from 25.6 to 26.3 percent, Apple climbed to 1.5 percent from 16.3 to 17.8, while LG dropped to 17.6 percent (previously 18.4). Motorola lost 0.2 percent and now has 11 percent market share, followed by HTC with 6 percent (previously 6.4 percent). Apple's current jump can be attributed to the new powerhouse iPhone 5.
The market share of mobile operating systems: Google sets According to the analysts by 1.4 percent (or 52.2 in July, 53.6 percent in October), Apple gains 0.9 percent and now has a share of 34.3 percent (previous 33.4 percent). RIM sags from 9.5 to 7.8 percent, Microsoft and Symbian lost 0.4 and 0.2 percent. comScore sees their Marktanteilchen now at only 3.2 and 0.6 percent. It will be interesting if and how resulting shifts until the end, especially if it succeeds Windows Phone 8, to reverse the trend.
Ericsson sues Samsung for Patent Infringement
Apple vs. Samsung, Google / Motorola vs. Microsoft, Ericsson now against Samsung - the patent wars in the mobile industry seems to have no end, despite some apparent peace signal. Ericsson now sued Samsung in the U.S., after the South Korean smartphone market leaders have also signed after two years of negotiations, no licensing agreements for relevant mobile technologies.
Similar to the dispute between Motorola and Microsoft we are talking about patents that are relevant to officially recognized cellular standards. These will be licensed on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory", short FRAND) are. Samsung have now refused to license for standards such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WLAN 802.11 held by Ericsson patents under FRAND terms, says Ericsson.
Samsung cares about maladministration in working conditions in China
Samsung responded to the allegations by China Labor Watch, in the works of manufacturing partners in China there are significant deficiencies in working conditions. The South Korean electronics giant shows in a statement that they have already been examined in September in four weeks with a total of 65,000 employees, 105 suppliers. 121 auditors should ensure that companies comply with Chinese laws and Samsung's own conduct. While no cases were found in which people were employed, who were younger than 18 years old. However, there have been some cases in which people had to pay more overtime than the rules allow. Also, there was punishment systems for staff, which appeared late or not in place.
Samsung Q4 send in more than 60 million phones
Just a couple of weeks ago it was known that Samsung continues to be the company that sells phones around the world when it has published a new positive information to the Korean company. The companies UBS analysis has indicated that the number of phones that the manufacturer sent to stores in Q4 2012 (October, November and December) will be over 60 million units ... a new record.Samsung could present an 8-core SoC in February
The evolution of SoC is a key in advancing the capabilities of mobility-oriented devices, both phones and tablets. And, currently, there are three great masters of the market: Qualcomm, with its Snapdragon, Nvidia with Tegra, and Samsung, with its Exynos. The latter company could make a shocking announcement in February: a model with no less than 8 cores inside.The architecture used is the ARM big.little and, according EETimes, this component included in a same chip fabrication technology SoC 28 nm with corresponding two cores. That is, on the one hand would be a quad-core ARMv7 type and another ARMv15 ... a "two in one".
Blow to Apple: Samsung can sell Galaxy Nexus in the U.S.
In Samsung's headquarters today is because chewing joy. The appeals court reversed U.S. decision prohibiting selling Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone there. The move marks another new chapter in the legal battle that kept the South Korean company with the U.S., as the company had achieved the block last June that a California court prevented sell the smartphone Samsung for alleged patent violation of Apple.
The appeals court has ruled that the U.S. District Court in California "did abuse its discretion in issuing an injunction" and returned the case to a lower court for reconsideration California.
Samsung thereby achieved their second victory against Apple in just days, since early October also lifted the ban on sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the U.S.. The decision also has another winner, Google, as its Android operating system is the heart of many of the South Korean giant's mobile devices.
In a brief statement, Samsung welcomed the decision of the court of appeals of the United States, which in his opinion "confirms that the role of the patent law is to protect innovation instead of stifling competition and unfairly restrict consumer choice." The Asian company added that it will continue to take "all necessary measures" to ensure the availability of their products.
Apple and Samsung have many months fighting a legal battle in the courts of many countries for patent violation and design plagiarism on the devices. Both companies account for more than 50 lawsuits. The hardest decision against South Korea took place in late August when a U.S. court ruled that Samsung had infringed six patents of Apple and imposed a penalty of 1,000 million dollars (767 million euros).
The new victory achieved by Samsung, certainly important for the company, will not, however, a great impact on the smartphone market, as the phone model in the case concerned, the Nexus is an old product South Korean company.
However, Apple's stock fell nearly 2% after news last night (Spanish local time), as the decision of the Court of Appeals U.S. is a slap for this company, as in the case of patents Nexus ( involving the functions that enable software) are directly related to the functions of Android, the software that powers most of the world's smartphones, and could hinder other lawsuits, according to Reuters.
In fact, on Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company fought its battle with Apple "is defining the current mobile industry" and called the fight between the two companies as "the final battle". "I've never seen a rivalry of platforms on this scale," he said in an interview with All Things Digital, the technology blog of The Wall Street Journal. The manager of Google also mentioned in that interview to the patent war and said he does not believe that these clashes in the courts benefit anyone. Schmidt said that the worst that will stand throughout this fight will not be the tech giants that could shield but small technology companies. "I think that ultimately, bad for innovation," he said ..
Almost all manufacturers of control code problem affected in Android
From the initially attributed Samsung Android tax code vulnerability seem potentially most smartphones and tablets are concerned UMTS, which runs on Ice Cream Sandwich (version 4.0.x) or an older version of Android. Google has the code in the dialing program in July, updated with version 4.1.1, so that control codes can not be done automatically.
Most dialers that are based on the original Android should, therefore, also contain the flaw. The comments show the readers to yesterday's report showing that almost every manufacturer is vulnerable devices in the program. Sony devices (formerly Sony Ericsson) are currently available information, only affected if it an alternative firmware like Cyanogen mod is installed. Otherwise start the Sony proprietary dialer from the tax code.
The current version of Android Jelly Bean (4.1.x) is installed on only 1.2 percent of all Android smartphones - which should primarily be that for most devices is no update on Jelly Bean and will not give.
The problem with the tax code is that it immediately executes the dialer - regardless of whether they are the users of hand typing on the keypad or by tel: URL has been passed from one Web page to the dialer. While the combination * # 06 # is not harmless and merely displays the 15-digit IMEI number of your smartphone, other tax codes mean that the SIM card will be permanently blocked. Samsung smartphones also know a code that will reset the device to factory settings, so all the user data in the phone memory clears. According to reports, other manufacturers like HTC have incorporated similar commands.
Since the dialer can be addressed in many ways, the tax codes are everywhere: on websites, in HTML emails in WAP push messages and even QR codes. It remains to be seen how the manufacturers are responding to the problem. Especially the users of older devices should not make much hope that there will be for their devices a security patch.
Since the exploit the vulnerability is trivial and the details can be long in the network are circulating, users should not wait for the manufacturer reaction. heise Security advises to install one of the many now offer apps that block the execution of the tax code. Besides TelStop and NoTelURL there recently, the USSD filter of G Data.
The installation of an alternative browser, however, can indeed ensure that tel: URLs are not on websites run longer without being asked, does not protect against control commands in QR codes and Co.
Now It is also on air that Sony (Ericsson) devices with original firmware are affected.
LG and Samsung argue over OLED patents
While LG insists that Samsung had stolen intellectual property, Samsung aim to have significantly more patents in the field of OLEDs as the South Korean competitors and thus a process left to look forward to.
In early September, Samsung had in turn sued LG for damages for alleged industrial espionage in the spring. This allegation was confirmed in July by a South Korean court and some former Samsung employees who were switched to LG, sentenced to prison. LG had the technology theft but still rejected by himself, which is why Samsung first demanded an official apology and now - because they stayed away - a compensation of 1 billion won (700,000 euros) demands.
The amounts mentioned are in the face of billions OLED market is not particularly high. It is especially well here is to consolidate its market position. Both companies are currently working on large screen televisions with organic, but so far with different techniques: while Samsung uses in its 55-inch OLED TV to RGB pixel, LG wants to wants to use white pixels with RGB color filters. Problems still prepare both versions, so this year is not expected to have any significant production quantities.
The organic displays are primarily distinguished by their strong image contrast and color and perspective completely independent representation. In many higher quality smartphones OLEDs are now standard practice in larger diagonals around for monitors or TVs are they currently do not, however (almost).
Apple wants more money from Samsung
During the 1-billion-dollar judgment against Samsung in U.S. patent dispute with Apple is still discussed hot and will probably be re-examined in parts must raise Apple's lawyers new demands: How the Patent Blog Fosspatents reported like Apple's rivals to payment of additional 706 million U.S. dollars, will see a total $ 1,756,121,384 committed. The new claims are made up of very different items:
135 million U.S. dollars Apple is appropriate as punishment for the intentional injuring of patents. U.S. law provides that for this fact, the resulting loss amount is tripled. For the affected five smartphones and two tablets Apple chooses a loss of 67,880,583 U.S. dollars as the basis.
400 million U.S. dollars Apple also calls related to intent and with reference to the "Lanham Act". If you add both items to come together as a $ 535 million penalty. The date fixed by the jury measures the total damages, and not the punishment.
121 million U.S. dollars Apple case for the period from 30 June, the jury its decision based on cut-off date and a hypothetical end of the process on 31.12.2012.
Another 50 million dollars to fall in interest ("prejudgement interest").
But also so that the end has not been reached: In the event that the court grant the request by Samsung to re-examine the amount of loss, Apple would have tested a few new items. The outcome will be another 155 million U.S. dollars. Then, the bottom line could even 1.9 billion stand.
According to rumors, meanwhile Samsung, which just yesterday in Germany has come onto the market iPhone 5 plans as "accused product" with in the process. Before a German court yesterday Samsung could get a partial success.
Next setback for Samsung in patent dispute with Apple
The electronics manufacturer Samsung has in its bitter patent dispute with Apple once again suffered a setback in the U.S.. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ITC rejected in a preliminary ruling from a Samsung lawsuit against Apple. In all these four Samsung patents was no violation has been established, the competent ITC judge said Friday. His decision will still be reviewed by the full six-member commission.
In the complaint against Apple's iPhones and iPad tablets are discussed included techniques for fast UMTS data radio. The ITC (International Trade Commission) for patent infringement may prohibit the import of devices in the United States. Since virtually all electronic devices are now manufactured in Asia, that would be extremely painful for all manufacturers. Apple has in turn also run an ITC patent lawsuit against Samsung.
A few weeks ago, Apple had the South Korean competitors inflicted a heavy defeat in the U.S. process. A California jury-court found the violation of several Apple patents by Samsung, and said the iPhone maker $ 1.05 billion (800 million euros) for damages. Samsung seeks to overturn this decision before it is confirmed by the competent judge.
AMD's quad-core version of the Ultrabook Trinity emerges
The data sheets of the new notebooks from Lenovo and Samsung dive two AMD processors Trinity series to 17-watt, AMD has not arrived yet, as the World Blog CPU found. So far, only the dual-core processor A6-4455M 2.1 GHz is known to put the example in Samsung's Series 5, are now added to the cheaper A4-4355m and the quad-core A8-4555M variant. With its TDP (Thermal Design Power, which is the maximum term wegzukühlende Power) of 17 watts, they are suitable for thin laptops, so Ultrabooks. Since this is a brand name of Intel, manufacturers may not call it that, instead, AMD has come up with the name Ultra Thin.
According to CPU World, the four cores of the A8-4555M running at 1.6 GHz (2.4 GHz in single-threaded), it has 4 MB of L2 cache and as the HD 7600G graphics core. The A4-4355m runs at 1.9 GHz (Turbo 2.4 in) and only has 1 MB cache and only the 7400G on board. For more information on pricing and availability as yet. The A8 notebook, also a Samsung Series 5 is not yet available.
Samsung threatens LTE iPhone with patent lawsuit
Samsung has decided to extend the patent dispute against Apple directly with the introduction of the next iPhone. The South Korean company will use its patent portfolio while on the fast LTE data radio, as a Samsung executive said on Monday the Korea Times. According to recent media reports, supports the sixth-generation iPhone, the Apple introduces expected on Wednesday, the faster wireless standard.
Samsung Electronics had decided to initiate immediate legal action against Apple, said a manager of the newspaper. "European countries and the U.S. - Apple's home market - are our primary goals." Samsung had previously threatened with lawsuits, help if the new iPhone LTE should.
The company was last year failed in its launch of the iPhone 4S in several countries - including Italy and France - to stop by restraining orders. As the Group for relevant standard UMTS patents in the field led, although their licensing on fair and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) was pledged to the EU Commission established since the beginning of the year against Samsung. With LTE patents but this was a whole different story, another Samsung manager stressed to the South Korean newspaper - these were "new and highly valuable."
Samsung suffered a few weeks ago a defeat in a patent litigation with Apple in California. The jury found that several units of the South Korean violate Apple patents, and have the iPhone maker awarded at least $ 1.05 billion damages. In the aftermath of Apple expanded another lawsuit on Samsung's current top model Galaxy S3.
Is Summing: Samsung Galaxy Note 2
On Galaxy Note 2 opinions are divided: For many users, the 5.55-inch screen too big for shirt or trouser pocket. On the other hand show the good sales figures of its predecessor that many buyers with the huge dimensions to be satisfied - in favor of service and overview. Externally, one can easily be confused with the score 2 to the Galaxy S3.
The case is different with a lot of smooth plastic and rounded corners and edges only in the details of Samsung's flagship smartphone. The big difference you realize, if you take the score 2 in the hand, because is the only operator with a thumb out of the question.
At the lower edge pull the pin from the housing. This is compared to the Galaxy Note Stylus become thicker and easier to handle and has as its predecessor a button on the page, which allows you to trigger alternative actions. At market launch, Samsung will also offer 80 euros for a stylus with integrated Bluetooth headset. A normal replacement stylus will be bought for 20 euros.
Apple takes new Samsung devices targeted
Following the landslide victory in the first U.S. patent case against Samsung Apple is now including the latest devices of the Korean competitors to target. Among them are the current top smartphone Galaxy S3, the tablet Galaxy Note 10.1, and the big phone Galaxy Note. Apple expanded a lawsuit in California so that from a total of 21 units, as is clear from court documents released Friday. It is expected that Apple will also add that the list presented at the IFA Galaxy Note 2.
A trial in the case is not expected until the spring 2014. When the patents in suit involves, among other things, to synchronize and unlock devices, missed calls, and search functions. The Galaxy S3 is the current flagship model of Samsung and the biggest competitor of the next iPhone, which is expected in September. Apple had been officially announced but still no news.
In the first trial the jury had found the violation of several Apple patents through various Samsung devices. Therefore they said to Apple $ 1.05 billion damages. Apple demanded that bans on sale for eight smartphone models from Samsung. Among them are several variants of the Galaxy S2 phone, the Samsung device as cheaper is still important. Judge Lucy Koh continued the hearing on the application for a permanent ban on sale only at the beginning of December. She is the presiding judge in both proceedings.
The process in California was the highlight of the run for more than a year bitter patent war between the two leading smartphone providers. Apple claims that the South Koreans to have copied design and capabilities of the iPhone and iPad. Samsung leads in return several technical patents in the field.
Apple loses patent dispute with Samsung in Japan
Before a district court in Tokyo Apple has failed in a patent lawsuit against Samsung, as among other things, the Reuters news agency reported. In the unspecified patent concerns the synchronization of music and video files between your PC and mobile devices.
Apple had claimed in his lawsuit in September 2011, Samsung Galaxy S and S II smartphones and the Galaxy Tab 7 infringed the patent, and called for a compensation of 100 million yen (about 1 million euros). The Court has now decided that Samsung use a different technique than the one described by the patent. Samsung's shares rose 1.8 percent after the decision. while the Nikkei average fell 1.6 percent.
A week ago, Apple had won against Samsung in a California court against a patent lawsuit and damages of 1 billion U.S. dollars to get (approximately EUR 800 million) awarded. This process is not finished, however, both parties are fighting for changes in the jury award. At the same time, a court in South Korea ruled that both Apple and Samsung patents of each other's company and had violated the parties granted a nominal damages.
Samsung puts billions in Texas mobile chip production
Samsung Austin Semiconductor is planning to invest around $ 4 billion in upgrading its chip factory in Texas. This is the manufacturing subsidiary of South Korean IT company announced Tuesday in a press release. The work will start in August - mass production will be possible from the second half of 2013. The upgraded fab will produce mainly intended for mobile devices, System-on-Chip (SoC) on 300-mm wafers using 28-nanometer technology, Samsung said. According to the group, these are the largest investment by a foreign company in the U.S. state of Texas.
Industry observers believe that the future there gefertigen chips mainly for iPhone, iPad and Samsung's own equipment is intended - Apple and the Galaxy manufacturers dominate the global smartphone market in the meantime. At the same time, both companies are stuck in a bitter patent dispute. In a California jury on Tuesday the process should begin its sentencing deliberations, a conference of the two CEOs did not result in sudden agreement. Bloomberg estimates that Apple's chip contracts accounting for nearly nine percent of Samsung's sales.
Apple vs. Samsung: Judge urges the new talks at Senior level
Located in the largest patent process from Apple and Samsung, the judge called on rivals to renew negotiations. "It is time for peace," the California judge Lucy Koh said at the hearing on Wednesday, according to U.S. media reports. She warned the companies against the risks if the case would be decided by a jury. The boss of Apple and Samsung had recently at the insistence of the Court already negotiated unsuccessfully for two days in May. The lawyers on both sides agreed to at least make a conference call.
So far, is difficult to assess whether the site could impress the jury. Apple continues to focus strongly on internal Samsung documents such as a comparative analysis of the iPhone software or an e-mail with a warning from Google that the models are too similar to Apple devices. Samsung presented the other hand, including the inventor of a tablet concept from the 90s as well as presentation skills, decided early on that a similar gesture control like Apple with its touch screen.
Currently, Apple and Samsung are yet fully absorbed in the exchange of blows in her great process in California. Apple accuses Samsung of having copied design and software elements of the iPhone and iPad. Samsung claims in return, the U.S. competitor had actually invented anything new and also accused Apple of violating several technical patents. The dispute before the nine jurors is tough, of the 25 hours, the Judge Koh acknowledged each side, Samsung has left over 2.5 hours and Apple 7 hours. For next week, the final pleas are expected.
Apple requires in the process at least 2.5 billion dollars in damages from Samsung. The companies had negotiated since 2010 several times, but not able to agree.
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