The injunction placed last week against sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet was, as you would probably expect, appealed by the Korean consumer electronics giant. The pleas have fallen on deaf ears, however, and as reported by Reuters, a judge has blocked a move to lift the injunction on the tablet.
It's hard to imagine a technology partnership bigger than that of Apple and Facebook. The world’s largest and most exciting technology company has recently embraced the world’s largest social network by offering native sharing support in the up and coming OS X Mountain Lion as well as iOS 6, with the latter being set to be released later this year.
The always popular Encyclopedia Britannica is now available to keep in the palm of your hand, with the news that a Windows Phone version of the app is available for download and fully updated for the year 2012. Primarily living online so as to avoid filling your phone's internal storage, the app also features an offline viewing mode for those occasions when Wi-Fi or a 3G data connection just isn't as forthcoming as we would like.
In an interview on Finnish TV, a Nokia executive has claimed that the phone maker has a fallback plan should Windows Phone 8 not meet the company's expectations. That fallback plan? Google's open source Android operating system.
With Apple's OS X Lion retailing at a very reasonable $29.99 last summer, Microsoft has re-thought the pricing structure for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Hitherto, upgrading to the "Pro" variant of any Windows version has been a costly affair, but it will not be the case this time around for existing users.
Legal battles are an ongoing undercurrent in the ever-changing world of tech, and rarely a gizmo manages to reach the retail consumer market without a rivaling company launching patent disputes.
Instagram is one of the most popular methods of editing and sharing photos in a quick manner, but Facebook's recent acquisition isn't without its drawbacks. The comments system, as an example, is in grave need of refining, and although the user-interface hasn't really changed in recent months, that doesn't necessarily mean the app - which fairly recently made its debut on Android - is the finished article.
With a strong suite of exclusive apps under the “S” brand – apps like Smart Stay, Social Tag, Smart Alerts, S Voice and S Beam – Samsung is making good use of the power of software to differentiate their Galaxy S III smartphone with high-end offerings from other Android smartphone manufacturers.
Earlier this year, Apple was sued in China by Proview Technology International Holdings Ltd. and had their iPad tablet banned in different parts of the company due to a trademark conflict.
VideoLAN, like a lot of companies with popular desktop apps, have yet to make a real impression on mobile devices. Its flagship VLC Media Player is renowned for handling just about any video or audio file thrown at it with relative ease, and is used by hundreds of millions of media-loving computer users worldwide.

