South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. says it has filed a motion with a U.S. court to add Apple's iPhone 5 to their ongoing patent battle. Samsung says it filed the motion Monday with the California court, alleging that Apple's new phone infringes on eight of its patents. The two companies are locked in a struggle for supremacy in the global smartphone market, leading to legal cases in courts a...

Photo sharing app Instagram has overtaken Twitter for the first time among U.S. smartphone users, according to data from comScore. In August, Instagram received an average of 7.3 million daily visitors, while Twitter attracted 6.9 million users, the website said. ComScore’s data reflects usage among U.S. smartphone owners aged 18 and older accessing the service on a device running iOS, Android,...

South Korea’s industrial output inched up in August from a year earlier, but its growth pace remained subdued apparently affected by sluggish demand amid concerns over the eurozone debt crisis and global slowdowns, a government report showed Friday. According to the report by Statistics Korea, production in the mining, manufacturing, gas and electricity industries grew 0.3 percent last month fro...

World’s largest memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday that it has forged a business tie-up with a Swiss semiconductor solution firm in promoting their foundry business. Samsung said that it has cooperated with STMicroelectronics N.V. in developing the 32 and 28-nano chip technology, and will continue the bilateral cooperation. Geneva-based STMicroelectronics is the seventh-larges...

Federal laws are needed to regulate social networking sites to give users the right to determine what happens to their "digital afterlives," a U.S. expert says. Jason Mazzone, a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law, says allowing social networking sites to set policy regarding the content of accounts of deceased users does not adequately protect individual and collective in...

BERLIN (DPA) ― Samsung Electronics was on the verge of winning a court battle in Germany against Apple, a judge indicated Tuesday, as the tech giants engage in a global dispute over patents for mobile devices. The judge is considering a case in which Apple alleges that five Samsung tablet products from their Galaxy range imitate the look and feel of Apple’s iPad. Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann...

CUPERTINO (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Apple’s foray into mobile maps with its iPhone 5 had to do with advertising and a growing rivalry with Google, industry observers said. Apple’s iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday included a new online maps service that was “littered with flaws, some laughable,” The New York Times reported Monday. But behind the effort to compete with Google is the lucra...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, said Friday that it will release its brand new Galaxy Note 2 phablet in Seoul next week. The official launch is earlier than the October date given by Shin Jong-kyun, head of Samsung's IT and mobile unit, at the IFA 2012 trade fair in Berlin last month when the phablet was first unveiled. The company said the start of s...

A German court on Friday found Apple Inc.’s patent infringement claim on Samsung Electronics Co. invalid, giving an upper hand to the South Korean company that suffered a crushing defeat in an earlier U.S. jury verdict. The district court in Mannheim ruled Samsung didn’t infringe the iPhone maker’s patent on multi-touch flags. The patent is one of the six intellectual properties Apple addressed ...

For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer. The SpeechJammer, a device that disrupts a person's speech by repeating his or her own voice at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds, was named Thursday as a 2012 winner of the Ig Nobel prize _ an award sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for weird and h...