Although we haven't heard about it as much as we have in recent times, the ongoing patents wars between the world's top technology companies is bubbling away in the background, with Apple and Samsung still managing to find themselves at the front of it all. Continuing with the legal battle we have become familiar with over the last twelve months, Apple have found themselves on the positive end of an initial ruling across the pond.
Apple, Inc. has in recent months filed so many lawsuits against so many different companies in so many different countries that it is really difficult to keep count. The company is currently embroiled in legal battles with companies like HTC, Motorola and is particular against Samsung Electronics.
According to a report over at The Korea Times, the country's leading electronics manufacturer Samsung is to light the proverbial blue touch paper at Facebook et al by launching its very own social network offering.
Today's big WWDC kick-off saw much publicity even before the curtain was raised. Anticipation was sky-high, and all the press in the land converged upon what was possibly the most exciting non-iOS hardware announcements for some time. We knew something big was coming, and we were right.
The patent wars between Apple and Google are only heating up. On Tuesday, Apple filed a motion - in its second California litigation against Samsung - that could ban the sale of the Galaxy S III in the United States. Basically, they tossed the Galaxy S III in the same motion to ban the Galaxy Nexus in the US. But why? Because of infringements pertaining to Apple's infamous voice command sassy butler Siri.
You Will Soon Be Able To Enjoy Console Quality Games On Your Smart TV Thanks To Samsung Cloud Gaming
If you are the kind of person who looks on in envy, but can't join in the fun as your friends flip the switch on their PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 to engross themselves in a fictional world comprising of hugely gory battles against invading advanced alien life forms, then fear not as a new venture between Korean electronic giants Samsung and cloud-based company Gaikai will soon be delivering high-quality video games directly to Samsung Smart TV owners.
The eyes of the smartphone adoring world may all be focusing on Samsung's new and shiny Galaxy S III handset, but that hasn't stopped the original Galaxy S model and its successor the S II flying off the shelves quietly in the background. There is no doubt that the Galaxy S III will prove to be an extremely popular device, it has even knocked the iPhone 4S off the most popular spot in Britain only two days after being launched, but the figures released by Samsung show that their earlier models are also producing good numbers.
Today's tech news will be largely dominated by Android, and given the successor to the biggest selling Android device to date is launching across much of Europe and the Middle East, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. In conjunction with the big launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III, the Korean LCD specialist is also (re)introducing its Music Hub app, which has been massively revamped in order to be taken seriously as a competitor to the popular services like iTunes and Spotify.
Apple and Samsung have been at each other's throats for a good couple of years now, and the ill-feeling stems - for the most part - from Apple's firm belief that it's Korean rival has been plagiarizing its designs and passing them off as their own.
From a software perspective, the most sought feature of the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S III is undoubtedly the S Voice feature, which is a similar implementation to Apple's Siri voice assistant, which launched along with iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S back in October. That's not the only new feature on the S III's list of exclusives, and thankfully for those not planning to invest in the yet-to-be-released, uber powerful device, the Android community is frantically trying to extract the goodies from the ROM leaked earlier this week, and so far, it has been a pretty fruitful venture.
