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Samsung Tops Mobile, Smartphone Market Mostly Due to Screen Size & Model Variety

Samsung is the king of the hill in the mobile market, having recently beat Nokia in total mobile phone sales for the first quarter of 2012. The Suwon, South Korea company is also…

Visitors walk by a billboard of Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note at the firm's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Samsung Overtakes Nokia in Mobile Phone Shipments

Samsung has already overtaken Nokia in terms of worldwide mobile phone shipments, as of first quarter 2012, which includes smartphones and feature-phones.

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new iPad in this March 2012 file photo. Cook says hybrid tablets are akin to combining refrigerators and toasters. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Apple CEO Tim Cook Rejects Idea of Laptop-Tablet Hybrid

Apple CEO says the idea of combining the iPad and MacBook Air would “wind up compromising” both, and compares it to combining a refrigerator and toaster.

One of the first customers who queued up to purchase a new smartphone iPhone 4S shows his new phone at an Apple Store in this file photo from Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Apple Trumps Expectations, Sells 35M iPhones in Q2 2012

Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable company, trumped skeptics once again by reporting blowout iPhone sales.

Apple has announced double profits in its first fiscal quarter of 2012.

Apple Doubles Quarterly Profits to US$ 11.6 Billion

Apple has reported its profits almost doubled in the first three months of the year, bolstered mostly by iPad and iPhone sales.

In this July 6, 2011 file photo, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, right, greets people from the South Korean delegation in Durban, South Africa, for the 123rd International Olympic Committee (IOC) session that will decide the host city for the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. A feud over the riches of South Korea's Samsung business empire has erupted in public as family members prepare to take an inheritance battle to court. Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., which is the flagship company of the Samsung conglomerate, is facing off against his older brother, a sister and a nephew's wife who all want a bigger piece of the Samsung cake. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Samsung Family in Public Spat Over Inheritance

A feud over the riches of South Korea’s Samsung business empire has erupted in public as family members prepare to take an inheritance battle to court.

A customer tries out Apple's iPad 2 at a retail shop in Chongqing, in this file photo.Proview Electronics is seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. for alleged fraud and unfair competition. (AP Photo)

China Official Says Proview Owns iPad Trademark

A government official’s statement that Proview Technology rightfully owns the iPad trademark could add to pressure on Apple to find a solution to the standoff.

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Asus Transformer Pad TF300 Sneak Preview

While not as sexy as the Transformer Prime, the great hardware and the affordable price make the Transformer TF300 a very attractive tablet hybrid.

Apple's iPad has been the subject of trademark litigation in China with Proview Technology claiming ownership of the "iPad" trademark. Apple and Proview have since entered into a $60M settlement (Photo Credit: Abe Olandres / Tech Wire Asia).

Apple Launches New iPad in Malaysia, South Korea, Brunei

Apple has launched the new, 3rd-generation iPad in new territories, including Malaysia, Brunei and South Korea in Asia.

In 2010, Amazon.com Inc. figured out how to crack Apple's stranglehold on tablets by making a half-size, no-frills tablet. The result was the Kindle Fire, which sells for $199 -basically, the cost of production. Amazon has sold millions of them, and has announced plans to bring the Kindle Fire to Japan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

New iPad Mini Rumors Surface, Saying Samsung is Supplying 7-Inch Screens to Apple

Rumors of a smaller iPad, or iPad mini are circulating again, with sources claiming Apple has ordered Samsung screens that are 7.86 inches diagonal.

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