Last updated: June 7, 2012 4:29 pm
Samsung plunges $500k into Linux Foundation - The Register
Samsung plunges $500k into Linux Foundation
P-p-p-picks up a different penguin in Apple struggle
Posted in Developer, 7th June 2012 17:06 GMT
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Samsung has opened a new front in the mobile wars against Apple by upping its investment in Linux and its mobile software. Samsung will plough half a million dollars into the Linux Foundation and get a seat on the not-for-profit's board of directors by becoming a Platinum member of the Foundation, it has been announced.
Linux doesn't state how much its corporate Platinum members donate for the privilege of top-tier membership - but Apple Insider reports that the amount is circa $500,000.
Samsung joins The Linux Foundation's six other corporate platinum members: NEC, IBM, Fujitsu, Intel, Qualcomm and Oracle.
Samsung's interest in operating systems is not a surprise. As the biggest mobile handset maker in the world, and manufacturer of many other devices including tablets, TVs and white goods, the company has a vested interest in the software on its hardware. We imagine Samsung will be particularly interested in the new Linux for mobile operating system Tizen, a potential rival to iOS and Android.
Google's Android OS is based on a Linux kernel, but even so it would seem worth the Korean company's time to investigate alternative flavours.
And it's not just mobile phones that use Linux, software will become an increasingly important part of devices such as TVs as the era of smart gadgets dawns.
In the short term, Samsung have committed to work with The Linux Foundation on streamlining its participation with the kernel community and adopting open source best practices.
Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation said the the partnership would be good for Samsung and good for Linux:
The company’s commitment to Linux and investment in its development firmly plants it in a position to continue its achievements in the mobile, embedded and consumer electronics markets. This is a strategic business decision that will result in advancing Samsung Electronics’ success and accelerating Linux development work.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 Pressured by Apple for US Ban - gamenguide.com
Samsung Galaxy S3 is about to hit the U.S. market this month, and Android’s biggest rival Apple is trying to ban its U.S. sales.
The much-anticipated flagship from Samsung will be available in all major U.S. wireless carriers as early as June 21, posing perhaps the biggest threat that Apple iPhone has seen in the past. But with the new move from the iPhone-maker, Android-equipped Galaxy S3 may face some trouble.
Apple has brought a motion “to supplement the record regarding Samsung’s Galaxy S III product”. Prior to this event, Apple had raised a motion against Galaxy Nexus. Apple, who purchased a Galaxy S III device in United Kingdom where the device was launched earlier on May 29, said the Samsung’s smart phone “clearly infringes at least two of the Apple patents at issue in the preliminary injunction motion for the exact same reasons as the Galaxy Nexus”.
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The two alleged patents, according to Apple, are Patent No. 8,086,604 “United Search” and Patent No. 5,946,647 “Links for Structures”. The two are also known as “Siri” and “Data Tapping”, respectively.
Apple said “[a]ccording to press reports, Samsung has already sold over nine million preorders of the Galaxy S III” and that the “Galaxy S III will also irreparably harm Apple for the same reasons as the Galaxy Nexux, but on a much greater scale”.
Just recently, Apple has also requested the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban 29 devices from HTC, including the One X, EVO 4G LTE, and Flyer tablet, over the same data tapping technology. Although HTC said they were “in compliance with the ITC’s ruling”, Apple thinks otherwise.
At this point when a lot of Galaxy S3 has been preordered, we are not sure what exactly would happen.
FOSS Patent reported that Samsung replied to Apple saying that “it’s too late to supplement the record for the motion that targeted the Nexus back in February and suggesting that a new preliminary injunction motion is needed.”
"If Apple wishes to seek an injunction against the Galaxy S III, the Court should require Apple to file a new motion and allow the parties to develop a full factual record on all four factors. Accordingly, the Court should reject Apple’s motion to amend its current notice of motion for a preliminary injunction."
Is it possible to see the awaited Samsung Galaxy S3 this June 21? Or is Apple going to succeed in delaying, or perhaps even banning, the new threat to iPhone?
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Samsung appoints Kwon Oh-hyun new CEO, reports say - CNET News
Samsung's new CEO, Kwon Oh-hyun
(Credit: Samsung)Samsung has replaced CEO Choi Gee-sung with the head of its components operation.
Samsung's components business chief, Kwon Oh-hyun, will now head up the company as chief executive officer. Kwon will continue to run Samsung's component business, but will now be tasked with handling "corporate-wide affairs," Samsung said today. However, the presidents of Samsung's TV and appliances and telecom and IT divisions will not report to Kwon.
Although Choi is no longer chief executive, he hasn't been let go. Quite the contrary, he will now head up the Samsung Group Corporate Strategy Office, a central body that rules over the organization's dozens of companies. Samsung Group is controlled by the chairman of Samsung Electronics, Lee Kun-hee.
According to Reuters, Choi has acted as a mentor to Lee Kun-hee's son Jay Y. Lee, who is expected to take over the group when he's ready for the job. One source, speaking to Reuters, said that Choi will aid Jay Y. Lee in understanding the strategy behind Samsung's many businesses, not just electronics.
Choi made headlines last month after meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook in San Francisco to discuss their patent lawsuit battles. Although the discussions were meant to help the companies come to some form of an agreement, that apparently hasn't happened. Whether Kwon will be actively involved in the legal cases surrounding patents and Apple is unknown at this point.
Updated at 7:15 a.m. PT to include Samsung's confirmation of its executive changes to CNET.
(Via The Wall Street Journal and Reuters)
Samsung fights Apple move to block Galaxy sales - Yahoo Finance
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will fight Apple's move to stop U.S. sales of its new Galaxy phone in the latest flare-up of an intellectual property battle between the world's top smartphone makers.
Samsung said it will vigorously oppose Apple's request for a court to ban sales of the Galaxy S III smartphone and still plans to go ahead with the device's scheduled release in the U.S. on June 21.
The South Korean company said in a statement that it will "demonstrate to the court that the Galaxy S III is innovative and distinctive."
On Tuesday, Apple Inc. asked a U.S. district court to temporarily ban sales of the S III smartphone before its launch in the United States. The maker of the iPhone accused Samsung of infringing two Apple patents.
The request, if accepted by the U.S. District Court for Northern California, would deal a blow to Samsung's attempt to get a headstart on sales of Apple's next iPhone.
The S III smartphone went on sale in Europe on May 29 and will be offered by around 300 mobile carriers in Asia and North America later this month.
The early launch puts Samsung in a favorable position to take a bigger chunk of the lucrative smartphone market. While Apple is keeping mum on its annual iPhone upgrade, many analysts expect the new iPhone to go on sale as early as July.
Samsung has become the biggest threat to Apple's clout in the mobile market as its Galaxy series of smartphones won popularity among consumers seeking an Android-powered device.
Most market research firms say Samsung overtook Apple in smartphone shipments for the first time during the first three months of this year.
Samsung and Apple have been embroiled in bitter patent lawsuits in North America, Europe and Asia since Apple accused Samsung of copying its iPhone in April 2011.
Chief executives of the two companies met in San Francisco last month after a court instructed them to negotiate, but the talks didn't produce a settlement.
Amid the legal battles, the two companies continue to do business with each other.
Samsung counts Apple as among its largest buyers of chips and display screens while Apple relies on Samsung for mobile components.
Judge cancels Apple's patent infringement trial against Motorola - CNET News
A judge ruled today that Apple and Motorola won't be able to duke it out just yet, Bloomberg reports.
Apple's patent infringement jury trial against Google's Motorola Mobility was scheduled for June 11, but U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner told the companies' attorneys he is rejecting arguments for damages because neither side was able to "prove injury."
This would have been the first patent trial between the two companies since Google acquired Motorola for $12.5 billion last month, although Apple and Moto have been sparring for quite a while. Motorola claims that Apple infringed several of its wireless and smartphone technologies. Apple has alleged that Motorola has violated some of its key patents related to iOS devices.
Posner is still considering whether to go forward with an Apple request for injunctive relief and is expected to issue a decision later today, according to Bloomberg.
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