Apple and Samsung bosses begin settlement discussions May 20, 2012 THE CHIEF executives of Apple and Samsung will today meet in a judge-supervised setting in an attempt to settle a legal dispute over patents. A jury trial is scheduled for July to assess Apple’s claims that Samsung has infringed copyright in the design of its smartphones and tablets. Samsung was served with a 373-page complaint [...]
Samsung value drops $10bn on fear Apple has picked rival chip May 16, 2012 SAMSUNG saw $10bn (£6.3bn) wiped off its market capitalisation on Tuesday following suggestions that Apple has placed a huge order for memory chips with a rival. Shares in the South Korean electronics giant tumbled 6.2 per cent after Taiwanese site DigiTimes said Apple has bought half the capacity of a DRAM chip manufacturing plant operated by [...]
Larger four inch screens set to feature on the iPhone 5 model May 16, 2012 APPLE is said to have put in orders for the production of its next iPhone offering and changed the size of the device’s screen. Sources say the fifth generation iPhone will sport a four inch screen when measured diagonally from cover to cover, compared to the current 3.5 inch display. Early production of the popular [...]
Half of British smartphones Android-based May 15, 2012 ANDROID now accounts for more than half of Great Britain’s smartphones as the dominion of Nokia and BlackBerry continue to wane. Android, the operating system behind Samsung and HTC smartphones, has climbed to a 50.1 per cent share of the market compared to 44.6 per cent a year ago, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. In [...]
Launch of the Lumia has failed to boost ailing Nokia … May 15, 2012 BACK in November I wrote of the difficulties that Nokia faced and the importance of the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800. At that point, Nokia had seen a rise in the buzz score on YouGov’s BrandIndex but that was already starting to fade, and the launch had had no impact on overall brand perception [...]
… as Finnish handset maker launches phones for under £30 in attempt to bump up flagging sales May 15, 2012 NOKIA yesterday launched a range of low-end smartphones in a bid to counter its plunging market share. The Finnish company unveiled two models to the European market which will retail at around €35 and €38 (around £28 and £30) respectively when they hit the shelves later this year. And to entice consumers to its latest [...]
Loewe soars on rumours of an Apple buyout May 14, 2012 SHARES in German TV maker Loewe jumped 32 per cent yesterday following rumours of an Apple takeover. Online rumours this weekend claimed the tech behemoth has offered €87.3m (£69.6m) for the high-end television maker, which Loewe’s management has been advised to accept. But despite denials from Loewe, investors jumped on the Frankfurt-listed stock ahead of [...]
Seamless and simple: the Steve Jobs television dream May 14, 2012 AFTER Steve Jobs realised he was terminally ill, he made a dying wish. “When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my deal with God or whatever,” he said in 2007, “which was that I really wanted to see Reed [his youngest son] graduate”. Tragically, he didn’t get the chance: Reed Jobs is due to [...]
OLYMPIC MEDIA BUZZ LONDON 2012 PARTNERS May 13, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games partners, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 25 April to Wednesday 10 May. Samsung is top of our rankings again, with the [...]
Sony shares hit three-decade low May 11, 2012 Shares in Sony Corp slumped more than seven per cent to near 32-year lows, as investors doubted the Japanese consumer electronics giant has a strategy to fix its loss-making TV business and compete in the smartphone market against Apple and Samsung. Yesterday the maker of Bravia TVs, Vaio laptops and PlayStation games consoles posted a [...]