Apple sues Samsung-- claiming its Galaxy smartphones and tablets "slavishly" copy the iPhone and iPad.
The lawsuit continues, for 38 pages, alleging Samsung violates Apple's patents and trademarks due to its copying, well, everything off it-- from the look, product design and UI down to the packaging.
Samsung meanwhile releases its own statement, saying it will take counter-action against Apple-- who, in a worthy twist, is also one of Samsung's major buyers of semiconductors and display panels, accounting for 4% of its annual revenues. There's no word out yet, but legal issues could possibly complicate thar relationship.
This far from Apple's first legal battle, as it's also involved in the courts with HTC, Motorola, Amazon, Nokia, Kodak and Microsoft.
Pyramid Research predicts 28% of WW smartphones-- a total of 250m handsets-- will be NFC-enabled by 2015 as more companies seek to invest in the technology.
Natec's releases new firmware updates for its Extreme Media HD-200 media player, adding more support and fixes including HDMI connection improvement, bittorent support and a shared folder option.
Best Buy announces its latest strategic priorities at its 2011 Investor and Analyst day-- planning to reach customers in any means, through online, its stores, over the phone or in their homes.
Bloomberg reports Philips will sell its 80 year-old TV business to Hong Kong-based TPV Technology-- marking an end to Europe's last mass-market TV producer.
