With Apple currently locked in a vicious legal battle with Samsung over various patents it is clear that the people behind the iPhone are serious about keeping their edge over the competition.
Samsung and Apple’s international court drama continues to heat up, folks. After having sales ban for their Galaxy Tab 10.1 extended by a week, good news has come up for the Korean company in the form of a US court denying Apple of a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung products.
The big thing right now in the world of Android is undoubtedly Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich as Google has christened it. It may not even be available on any phones in the United States yet, but all the buzz is definitely of the cold sandwich variety.
Over the last couple of weeks various reports have begun circulating that some Android, Nokia and BlackBerry smartphones feature a piece of software which logs certain key software events, as well as keeping track of some hardware functions, too. The world is up in arms about the whole thing, as it tends to be when anything even remotely related to privacy rears its ugly head.
Remember when the Australian Federal Court ruled in Apple’s favor by banning Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in, well, Australia? Well, most of you, especially those in Australia, will be glad to know that the decision has been reversed! Check out the details after the jump!
It would appear that someone at Google isn't going to stop mapping things until they have every square inch of this planet and beyond sat on an Android device for our delectation. This latest release of Google Maps, up to version 6 now, illustrates that point perfectly by taking Google Maps one step further than the awesome features we have all become so accustomed to over the years.
According to a report published earlier today, Apple is, unsurprisingly, very much ahead of other smartphone manufacturers when it comes to brand loyalty.
One of the social networking apps to take iOS users by storm is Instagram, but it's not just any normal social network. Allowing users to upload their own photos after editing them using a selection of provided affects, Instagram is a cross between Flickr and Twitter and is currently the must-have app for the technorati of iOS. The problem is, there is currently no Android version and fans of the little green robot are getting tires of waiting.
Google has just released an update to its coveted iOS search app, with improved iPad UI as well as full-screen mode for the iPhone.
If the rumor mill carries anything of significance, Samsung's yet-to-be-announced Galaxy S III could boast an impressive quad-core Exynos 4412 CPU - a move which would really throw down the gauntlet to rival manufacturers.
