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Is this the Samsung Galaxy Note 2? Image posted on official site looks worryingly familiar

Hmmm, this is a strange one. Samsung Pakistan just posted the above pic on its official Facebook page. The caption reads, “Picture perfect view made even more perfect with Samsung Galaxy S3,” but the picture clearly isn’t of a GS III. So, what is it? It’s big, that’s for Read the Rest of the story [...]

Samsung, LG and Pantech, among others, fined $40 million in Korean price fixing scam

 

The truth in advertising is that there is none — it’s mostly all smoke and mirrors. But sometimes those illusory promises have real-world criminal intent behind them, like this latest ruling from the Korean government’s corporate regulator. In a decision handed down earlier today, that governing body found mobile phone makers Read the Rest of the story [...]

Samsung, LG and others fined $40 million in Korean price-fixing scam

 

Korean regulators on Thursday fined domestic mobile phone manufacturers and carriers 45.3 billion won (roughly $40.2 million) for price-fixing and consumer fraud. According to the Fair Trade Commission, the companies secretly agreed to inflate the prices of cell phones while advertising offers with considerable incentives. The companies’ actions apparently Read the Rest of the story [...]

Samsung puts $200 million aside for patent spats with Apple

Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung on Monday said that his company is ramping up its defense against Apple in 2012. Speaking to The Korea Times, Samsung’s chief executive confirmed the creation of a $200 million war chest that the South Korea-based vendor will use to fight Apple’s patent-related advances moving forward. Read the Rest of the story [...]