versus Samsung saga comes from Sydney, Australia where Federal Court judge Annabelle Bennett advised Apple to reveal their
sales figures in the United States and the United Kingdom to strengthen their case against Samsung. The Galaxy Tab 10.1, whose sales are put on hold in Australia by the court, has been available in the U.S. and U.K. markets since June.
Apple claims that the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia would considerably (more…)

As you may already know, Apple and Samsung are at each other’s throats lately.
, Samsung countered
, which prompted Apple to amend its complaint against Samsung to include more Samsung models and
.
in the European Union, which was later withdrawn.
now reports that Samsung is using an interesting strategy against Apple ‘s preliminary injunction request.
Ever since Apple started to assert the design of the iPad against other manufacturers, (more…)

As if there wasn’t enough news in the past couple of days, today
. The three patents, HTC claims, are violated by the
line of products.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware seeks to halt Apple ‘s importation and sale of infringing products in the United States. It also seeks compensatory damages, triple damages for willful infringement and other remedies.
The action recommended by HTC is certainly harsh, but is more or less (more…)

, 
, which had raised a lot of controversy.
 regularly tracks your iOS device and records the co-ordinates along with timestamp in a hidden file.
The controversy landed Apple into trouble as they were investigated by privacy regulators in South Korea, France, Italy and Germany.
At that time,
as reported by security researchers. Apple also confirmed that it had never done so and had no plans to ever do so. But Apple admitted that it could (more…)

There has been a lot of stuff going on, when it comes to
. On one side it is fighting a patent war with the likes of
(though indirectly), while on the other side there are a bunch of developers who are being sued by patent trolls like Lodsys and Kotool.
To give you a little background on the latter part, Lodsys claims that by using the
, developers violate patents Lodsys owns. This is despite the fact that Apple has already licensed these (more…)

last month.
, the demand for the elusive white iPhone 4 was so high that DIY conversion kits available for $279 were selling like hot cakes and Fei Lam – the teenage entrepreneur behind the website
in just a few months.
At that time, Lam had revealed that he was getting the conversion kits from a contact in China who had a relationship with folks in Foxconn, Apple ’s manufacturing partner.
We had also mentioned that this had not gone unnoticed. (more…)

In the latest episode of the continuing saga of the long drawn legal battles between Nokia and Apple , the former has sued Apple in Europe for infringing upon 13 of its patents. The suits have been filed in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands and each one of them relate to 13 different patents that Nokia says Apple has infringed upon and have been used in many of its popular products.
This, combined with Nokia’s earlier lawsuits takes (more…)

clone runs on Windows 6.5 as well as Android 2.1 and comes with some interesting specifications including a 512MB RAM, a 5-Megapixel camera with auto-focus and a 3.6″ WVGA capacitive touch screen display with multi-touch capabilities. The phone is reported to be available in the Chinese gray market at a price of RMB1800 ($257).
The launch of such clones is not exactly new. However, the timing is interesting considering Apple 's recently found (more…)

In the complaint, the plaintiffs have argued that Apple was aware of the inherent defects in the
and that these defects were maliciously concealed from consumers. The lawsuits have sought for damages from Apple besides requesting the court to order an injunction on the company to ”
“. The lawsuit filed in California reads:
“The iPhone 4 manifests design and manufacturing defects that were known to Defendants before it was released which were (more…)

According to these reports, a final decision on the inquiry is expected to be taken in few more days. The inquiry shall be followed by a full-fledged investigation into Apple 's policies to determine if the company had indeed violated the antitrust laws. According to David Balto, a former policy director with the FTC, Apple 's moves appear anti-competitive at the outset. He says:
“What they're (Apple ) doing is clearly anticompetitive … (more…)