Well well, what do you know – there’s another lawsuit on our hands. Well, this is more of a continuation of a lawsuit that didn’t end too well for Samsung last time. To refresh your memory – last time in August Samsung was told that they would have to pay Apple a whopping $1.05 billion US for damages in  ’copying’ Apple’s design cues. This was largely due to creating a rectangular device with rounded corners – <s> that’s some true innovation! </s>

Well, it appears as though there have been a few changes to this case as of late. Samsung has approached Judge Grewal to include the iPhone 5 in the counter-suit against Apple. But, we already knew that was …

Remember that story we ran about a week ago when the UK court said that Apple still must post a public apology on their website for 6 months about the Apple vs Samsung case? Well, it appears as though apology has gone live and – well – it’s more of a joke than we’d expected.

The statement starts off with a declaration of Samsung’s innocence, which quickly turns the other way -

On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic(UK) Limited’s Galaxy Tablet Computer, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do notinfringe Apple’s registered design No. 0000181607-0001.

The page goes on to quote some lines from the …

A magistrate in the Australia Capital Territory has today found that the use of tracking application to find your stolen device is legal. It was found that the use of a tracking application on an iPhone, in order to track a stolen iPad was acceptable. The man who had his iPad stolen tracked his device to an unknown garage. Luckily, he heard his iPad make a ringing sound from within the garage and informed the police, who found numerous other stolen goods within the property owner’s garage.

So, what does this mean for us Androiders? We can now use a tracking application in order to locate our phones or tablets if they happen to be lost or stolen – and …

The big battle between Sammy and Apple in the United States is mostly over and it doesn’t directly affect Australia. However, that doesn’t mean that the two tech giants aren’t still going at it all around the globe. Over in Netherlands (oh what a great place that is) Apple has been stating that Samsung are – wait for it – infringing on their patents.

This time it isn’t about a rectangle with curved edges or about the colour of icons. This time Apple are suing Samsung about the ”touch event model” which helps to prevent mistaken presses on a touch screen with a second finger.

So, Samsung’s defence of saying that they didn’t copy didn’t work too well over the …

Well, it looks like Apple are taking a bigger stab at Samsung than we had thought. After we heard that Apple had won the US court-case against one of our favourite OEMs (which resulted in a $1.05 billion fine), we heard that Apple were taking things a bit further. At first, this was an injunction for the ban of eight Samsung devices from the US. Most of these had stopped being sold or were no longer as popular as newer models – namely, the Galaxy S II variants and a couple Galaxy S variants. Yeah, not the biggest deal in the world with the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note out there in the wild.

However, news has come in …

This just in from the States: the jury in the ongoing Apple v Samsung case in the United States that we’ve been covering has reached its verdict, and it’s not a good one for Samsung; the jury has found that Samsung has infringed on several of Apple’s patents and trade dress registrations. Moreover, the jury has awarded USD 1.05 billion dollars in damages to Apple for the infringements; not the $2.5 billion Apple was asking for, but still a substantial amount. While devices included in the infringing list are mostly American versions of devices, including the Galaxy S II, some international devices such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab are also included.

Notably, however, the …

Motorola Mobility yesterday filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple in the United States. Moto has applied to have several foreign-made Apple products refused entry into the US. That is, the iPhone, iPod, iPad and some Mac computers.

While it is quite unlikely that any US judge would grant such a sanction against Apple, there could be other repercussions for the Cupertino company. Apple could be forced to pay royalties per product sold or sign for licensing agreements.

In a statement to CNET on the matter, Google said:

We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations.

It looks like Google …

Over in the States the case between Apple and Samsung really is getting heated. That is, the case about patent issues between the two companies that may see billions of dollars in damages paid. We’ve seen numerous renders drawn up, multiple images of early phones and designs, tonnes of emails over the last few years – and – the tediously spelt out patent filings. However, there’s one thing that has really caught our eye. One thing that brings humour to what is otherwise a case that could mean very serious things for Samsung, Apple and Android.

The presiding Judge, Lucy Koh, has laid into Apple’s lawyers. After Apple presented a document that would potentially call out 22 witnesses to rebut …

Over in the United States there has been quite a bout between two of the biggest tech companies in the world. Apple and Samsung have taken each other to court all around the globe over the last year and things are really starting to heat up in the climatic aura in the United States. Edit: If you haven’t been following the stories too closely, Apple and Samsung have been at each other’s throats about a variety of patent and copyright infringement issues. This has involved the OS display issues, menu navigation, design cues and even the ‘slide to unlock’ feature on phones. Remember when you could slide your thumb across a ‘predefined line’ to unlock your Android? Yeah, just like …

As the global court-cases between Apple and Samsung begin to heat up, an Australia judge has become fed up with the situation. The Australian part of the global war is a prelude to what is about to go down in the US and Great Britain. However, after just one day of quarrels and patent/copyright nonsense, the Australia presiding judge has decided that she has just had enough – and good on her.

Judge Bennett asked the companies’ lawyers yesterday -

Why on earth are these proceedings going ahead? It’s just ridiculous … Why shouldn’t I order the parties to mediation?

So, why on earth is this happening? Why has the tech world gotten to the point where so very much …

So, we’ve got another high-class company taking out some frustration in the modern market on Android OEMs. Fujifilm has elected to take out its patent portfolio and have a browse of what they can sue for today.

And who’s the culprit? Google’s newly acquired Motorola it seems. Fujifilm is taking Moto to the courts for four separate patents which refer mostly to (you guessed it) photography and facial recognition software. If you’re interested in all the mumble jumble than you can hit up any of these links to find out more:

• Patent #6,144,763
• Patent #6,915,119
• Patent #7,327,886
• Patent #5,734,427

If you’re like me and want the short piece, Motorola is pretty much being taken to court for the process in …

A recent public inquiry which was run by the ACMA found that the overall annual cost incurred by people who choose the wrong mobile plan which doesnt suit their needs amounts to over $1.5 billion AUD. Unfortunately the costs are not limited to the consumers. The complaints process amounts to around 108 million dollars and telcos suffer around 113 million dollars a year writing off bad debts incurred by customers who can not afford to pay the bill.

As a result the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code (TCP) was announced earlier today, and will act as a firm set of guidelines for all Australian telcos. These guidelines will advise major telecomunication gucompanies on how to conduct themselves around customers in order …