Bits Blog: Judge Slashes Jury Award in Apple-Samsung Case
A federal judge softened the blow from Apple’s legal victory in a patent case over Samsung, lopping more than 40 percent off the damages.
Bits Blog: Apple and Samsung Tangle on Damages and Juror
Samsung and Apple lawyers butted heads over the more than $1 billion in damages that a federal jury awarded Apple in August, but the judge in the case issued no new rulings in the case.
Gadgetwise Blog: Samsung’s Biggest Phone, or Smallest Tablet
The Samsung Galaxy Note II is either a really big phone or really small tablet, with so many features your contract will run out before you learn to use them all.
Bits Blog: Samsung’s Galaxy Phone Is No. 1 — for Now
Samsung’s flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, recently surpassed Apple’s older iPhone 4S to become the best-selling smartphone in the world. But its time at the top could be short.
Gadgetwise Blog: A Smartphone Cover With Style but Little Substance
The Protective Flip Cover for the Samsung Galaxy S III allows users to customize their smartphone with ease, but it offers little in the way of actual protection.
Bits Blog: Malicious Code Can Wipe Out Some Samsung Phones
A simple line of malicious code embedded in a Web page can cause some Samsung Galaxy smartphones to lose all their data, security researchers revealed this week.
Bits Blog: The Patent Clues to the Apple iPhone Beyond ’5′
An analysis of Apple’s patent filings offer a look at the company’s long-term ambitions for the iPhone. The report by Thomson Reuters points, for example, to a miniature fuel-cell as a power source that could keep an iPhone going for days or weeks with…
Bits Blog: Samsung Is First in Line With a Windows Phone 8 Device
Samsung, the world’s biggest phone maker, showed the first smartphone to include Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system. In making this announcement, Samsung is beating even Nokia, Microsoft’s partner for making Window…
Bits Blog: Samsung Is First in Line With a Windows Phone 8 Device
The world’s biggest phone maker showed the first smartphone to include Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system.
Bits Blog: Responses to the Trial
Early reactions evaluate the landmark trial between Apple and Samsung: How enormous a win is this? And what could it mean for the tech industry overall?
Gadgetwise Blog: A Polymer to Protect Phones From Impact
Tech21 has created a line of phone cases line with D30, super-shock-absorbent material of a type called non-Newtonian polymer that inspires a lot of don’t-try-this-at-home stunts, like getting whacked in the head with a shovel through a layer of the st…
Bits Blog: Apple’s Schiller Testifies in Smartphone Patent Trial
A new day of testimony in the dispute between Apple and Samsung began with a history lesson on the iPhone from Apple’s Philip W. Schiller.
