Samsung’s plan on smart TV sales in 2012

Samsung Electronics has officially announced details on its upcoming 2012 upgrade to smart TV. Samsung plans is to sell more than 25 million smart TVs this year as it tries to capture the emerging Internet TV market. 

The new smart TV is installed with Samsung Smart Touch Control, complete with touchpad, and voice control.  

Samsung's latest smart TV has the option to change channels and adjust the volume with a simple swipe of the touchpad. It can recognize the hand motions. 

With the newest Samsung Smart TV, it is possible to use the Smart Touch Control’s microphone to tell to television what to do. It can recognize human voice in some 30 languages to turn itself on or off, switch channels or adjust volume.  

“The new smart TVs are being introduced for the first time inKoreaand the main products in the new ES 8000 series will be launched worldwide by the end of March,” said Kim, chief of the firm’s television business. 

Apple lost the battle with Samsung

Apple lost the battle on sales of Samsung Tablet computers and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone from a German court. 

Munich Regional Courtdismissed Apple’s appeal confirming that Apple’s touchscreen patent was likely to be revoked in short order.

“Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection,” Judge Andreas Mueller told theMunich Regional Courttoday, February 1.

Apple complained, but courts decided that the design of the 10.1N is completely different and agreed on the selling of Galaxy Tab 10.1N by Samsung inGermany.

Ubuntu 12.04 Adds Launcher Customization

I started using Ubuntu 12.04 on my main PC a couple of days ago to keep an eye on the upcoming changes and today I noticed two major changes silently added to the 'User Interface' settings option. One of my grips with Unity was the lack of any customization of Launcher's size and position. I also wanted the launcher to stay visible all the time so that I don't have to wait for it to appear.

Two changes have landed on Ubuntu 12.04 daily builds that address my problem.

Under the UI settings there are now two tabs, in the first tab 'Appearance' the team has moved the options to choose wallpapers towards the right side. What is interesting is that you will notice a new option at the bottom which says 'Launcher icon size'. This was one of the most important features as will help users to control the size of the launcher - which will also save space.

The second option rests on the newly added tab called 'Behavior'. At the moment there are two options available. Enabling and disabling the 'auto-hiding' of the Launcher. So, now you can turn off the automatic ...

Apple’s iBookstore Witnesses 350,000 iBooks Downlo...

Apple’s iBooks-2, a digital textbook launched last week, haven’t convinced everyone as the company claimed that classroom is a very suitable place for iPad, though more than 350,000 textbook downloads in the first 3 days suggests a big demand for the iOS in classrooms. These figures were revealed by the proprietary monitoring system for Global Equities Research. However, free iBook Author tool have been downloaded in substantial amount.

Since the release on Thursday, Apple’s free e-book creation tool, which is Mac-only & requires Operating System X Lion, was reportedly downloaded 90,000 times. The app helps to create digital books by dragging & dropping Word files, Keynote presentations, videos, and photos, though the interactive titles are distributed via Apple’s iBookstore.

However, the limitation may not frustrate many publishers as far as the potential savings are concerned. The research firm reveled production based on iBooks Author is almost 80% less than that for print textbooks.

Source : http://www.techgadgetsweb.com/

Nielsen Survey Reveals Apple Taking On Android

Apple has good news. Though the giant Android has been persisting to dominate the smartphone world, those preferring iPhones are still involved in the list prominently, having almost half of the total smartphone buyers preferring iPhones in the last 3 months.

However, Results from the recent Nielsen survey reveal that amongst the buyers purchasing new devices in the last 3 months, 44.5% claimed to have an iPhone bought during the period. Last October, this was only 25.1%.

This may have an impact on availability of the Siri-driven iPhone-4S that arrived last year, though it picked up steam because people laid down their cash for the iPhone-4S anyway. 57 percent of those choosing iPhone said that they chose the 4S specifically.

On the other hand, Android still possesses the edge among the U.S smartphone users as 46.3% Android smartphone owners were surveyed in the 4th quarter of 2011 and 30% of whom claiming to have iPhone.

Source : http://www.techgadgetsweb.com

Apple Loses ITC Case Against Motorola

Apple continues to lose its legal battle against Android. After losing Germany, Australia, The Netherlands the company has now lost on the home turf. The United States ITC [International Trade Commission] issued a preliminary ruling on Friday stating that Motorola Mobility smartphones do not infringe three Apple patents.

"We are pleased with today’s favorable outcome for Motorola Mobility," said Scott Offer, senior vice president and general counsel of Motorola Mobility. "Motorola Mobility has worked hard over the years to develop technology and build an industry-leading intellectual property portfolio. We are proud to leverage this broad and deep portfolio to create differentiated innovations that enhance the user experience."

Anti-Android bloggers who have been trying to spread the FUD against Android that Google's Motorola acquisition won't help Android defend against Apple's attacks need to look at new ways to spin their stories against Android.

The defeat of Apple on legal grounds shows why Microsoft is using bogus methods to pretend as if they are making money from Android by signing cross licensing deals with Android players. I believe that Microsoft is very much aware of its extremely weak position in mobile patents that is the reason why it signs ...