Samsung has hit back at Apple after a $12-billion drop in its market value in the wake of its loss to the iPhone maker in a high-profile court battle.
How can you tell when a tech market has fully matured? When companies start suing each other for patent infringements, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Apple’s victory in a landmark US patent case against Samsung could reshape the mobile sector and slow the momentum of Google and its Android system.
A report from research firm IDC says there were four Android phones for every iPhone shipped in the second quarter of 2012.
Multinational corporations believe Africa is booming and are turning to a new brand of sales rep to reach the continent’s remote regions.
Apple’s iPad outmuscled its Android-powered tablet computer rivals in early 2012, in a global market suffering from post-holiday hangover.
Service outages and failure to keep up with the iPhone mean BlackBerry’s popularity is waning and its creators have paid the price.
Analysts say up to 29-million iPhones were sold in the last quarter of 2011 while others say Samsung sold 35-million smartphones in the same period.
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/ 27 December 2011
Italy’s anti-trust authority has decided to impose a €900 000 fine on Apple for misleading consumers on assistance services and product guarantees.
A mobile, solar-powered "internet school" designed for teachers and pupils in energy-scarce rural areas was launched in Boksburg this week.
Asian phone vendors relying on Google’s Android operating system could increase their exposure to rival mobile platforms
Apple scored a victory in its patent infringement battle against Samsung after a court temporarily barred the firm from selling its Galaxy tablet.
Apple and Samsung go head-to-head and the SA government calls off fracking.
Samsung Electronics has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the US firm’s iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case.
Apple has sued Samsung Electronics, saying the company’s Galaxy line of smartphones and tablet computers copy Apple’s popular iPad and iPhone.
Samsung Electronics said on Friday that both sales and operating profit likely rose to record highs in 2010.
Video game makers leave behind a year of slow sales in 2010, but are hopeful that a new generation of games will spur a return to growth in 2011.
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/ 13 October 2010
Analysts say the tech heavyweight rivals are not so much heading into battle as strolling hand in hand into an ever more profitable future.
Manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets expected to hit US shelves in force by the middle of 2010.
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/ 17 February 2009
Leading cellphone makers had good news for anyone with a drawer full of old phone chargers on Tuesday: the industry plans to standardise the device.
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/ 16 February 2009
Samsung unveiled the world’s first solar-powered cellphone, "Blue Earth", in front of curious crowds at an industry show in Barcelona on Monday.
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/ 23 January 2009
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics posted its first quarterly loss to date on Friday, joining a host of technology companies including Microsoft.
The world’s leading cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung, are fighting back against the email-enabled BlackBerry smartphones and their iPhone rivals.
The linked rings on every Chinese Coke bottle and the leaping athletes on each McDonald’s paper bag testify to the power the world’s biggest corporations believe this summer’s Olympics wields. But having spent huge sums, the companies sponsoring the Games are about to find themselves the targets of a new war on China’s human rights record.
South Korea’s most powerful businessman announced on Tuesday he is stepping down after 20 years at the helm of the Samsung group, following his indictment for tax evasion and breach of trust. A sombre Lee Kun-hee made the shock announcement at a press conference called to announce reforms to the scandal-tainted group.
The Beijing torch relay was conceived as ”a journey of harmony”. But there was precious little unity on display in London on Sunday as the most powerful symbol of the Olympic movement completed a troubled and occasionally violent passage across the capital.
As the internet goes mobile and companies such as Apple and Google find cool ways to embrace the trend, mobile market leader Nokia is rewriting its product development rulebook. Instead of working in secrecy and isolation, it wants to start sharing.
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/ 23 February 2008
Western Province teenage swimming sensation Jessica Pengelly battled to contain her surprise after smashing her national 400m individual medley record in front of a vocal crowd at the Samsung Swimming Grand Prix series at the University of the Western Cape on Saturday.
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/ 7 December 2007
A large oil tanker was gushing thousands of tonnes of oil off South Korea’s west coast after being hit a barge, South Korea’s maritime ministry said on Friday. The Hong Kong-registered Hebei Spirit was struck while at anchor off Daesan port in the Taean region and the ministry said it had already leaked about 10 800 tonnes of crude oil into the sea.
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/ 24 October 2007
When George Linardos was ordered to clear his diary to help dream up new business for Nokia, he imagined six weeks brainstorming on the terrace of a five-star hotel in the Caribbean. What he got was a pot of porridge every morning at a Spartan hotel hours from Finnish capital Helsinki, with forests and snow all around.
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/ 11 October 2007
Sun Microsystems and Samsung are jointly developing a cellphone to challenge Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting Sun chairperson Scott McNealy. McNealy said on Tuesday in Seoul that the companies are working on a ”Java phone” that would surpass Apple’s iPhone in functionality.
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/ 13 September 2007
The world’s largest cellphone maker, Nokia, said on Thursday it will join rivals — including Samsung and Sony Ericsson — to produce a fast flash memory card with high capacity to ease and speed up downloads for handset users. The technology is expected to be ready in 2009.