Australians who want to buy Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 will have to wait a little longer thanks to Apple. The Cupertino company argued its patent case against Samsung in front of Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett on Monday, accusing Samsung of violating 10 patents and asking for an injunction to bar Galaxy Tab sales in the country. According to Bloomberg , the injunction was issued and Samsung has agreed to comply: the company will stop advertising the device in Australia and won’t sell it there until the court gives its green light. Apple’s counsel had argued that the injunction was required because Samsung had been advertising the device in Australia since July 20. Samsung, however, said that Apple was basing its claims on the US version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and that the Australian version was “different.” Exactly how “different” is unclear, but the South Korean company agreed to send Apple three copies of the Aussie Galaxy Tab 10.1 at least seven days before it plans to begin selling the device in Australia. A hearing is currently scheduled for August 29, at which time a trial date may be decided. Ever since Apple fired the first salvo against Samsung in April of this year, the two companies have been going back and forth in both the US and overseas over whose product is violating whose patents. Apple made arguments to the Australian Federal Court similar to those it has been making in the US : namely that the Galaxy Tab violates 10 Apple patents relating to the physical and UI designs of the iPhone and iPad. And although Samsung has agreed not to sell the device in Australia until it gets court approval, Apple has agreed that it will pay unspecified damages to Samsung should it lose its suit in Australia. Update : Samsung has finally released a public statement on the matter. Posted by Ausdroid.net , the statement says that Apple raised an issue with a variant of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that was never slated for release in Australia, so Samsung agreed not to sell it.
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Apple keeps Galaxy Tab 10.1 from sale in Australia—for now
August 5th, 2011 
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June 6th, 2011 admin Samsung’s latest maneuver in what appears will be a long, drawn-out legal battle with Apple over mobile device copying is a bold one. The company filed a “reciprocal expedited discovery request” asking to see samples of Apple’s expected, though unannounced, next-generation iPhone and iPad hardware. The motion was filed shortly after Apple was granted an expedited discovery request which sought to gain access to upcoming Samsung hardware that is believed to infringe on Apple’s design patents and trade dress. Apple had already claimed Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphones and Galaxy Tab crossed the line between inspiration and rip-off, and Apple sought access to announced new products to determine if Apple should add them to its lawsuit against Samsung or potentially file an injunction barring their release. Read the comments on this post
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May 27th, 2011 admin The first commercially available set of tools for cracking the encryption and passwords on iOS devices has been made available by Russian security company ElcomSoft. One part of their software is a password breaker, while another part, available only to law enforcement and forensic agencies, is able to extract numbers used to create the encryption keys for iOS data to render decrypted images of the device. The decryption tool requires access to the device in question, but once it’s in hand, a few different kinds of keys need can be scraped from it, including the unique device key (UID) and escrow keys calculated using the UID and escrow pairing records. If the device is only protected by a 4-digit passcode, the program then only needs to brute-force its way through that to get access to all of the decryptable information. iOS was never much of a security fortress (as we’ve noted numerous times) and even this new tool uses a variation of a previously discovered method. Charlie Miller, of Pwn2Own fame and a principal research consultant with Accuvant, even pointed out to Ars that the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology detailed a very similar method in a research paper they put out in February. However, their tools are not for sale. If your phone or tablet regularly comes under scrutiny of the law, Miller adds that this commercially available toolset is fairly simple to rout by using a long, complex password rather than a 4-digit code to protect your data. The ElcomSoft method comes with a password breaker, but much of its efficiency is derived from defining limits on the possible guesses, such as variations on a certain word. While “beating it out of you” will remain the superior method of password obtainment for the average law enforcer, the password breaker could still come in handy for when you can’t remember which characters in your leetspeak password were numbers, and which were letters. Read the comments on this post
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May 13th, 2011 admin Amazon may indeed be planning to leverage its digital content store of movies, TV, music, e-books, and Android apps to help sell a full-fledged tablet of its own. A new report suggests that Taiwanese manufacture Quanta has received orders from Amazon to begin building as many as 700,000-800,000 tablet devices per month to begin shipping in the second half of this year. The information comes from sources inside “upstream component makers” that told DigiTimes that Amazon’s business could add up to $3.5 billion to Quanta’s revenue for 2011. While DigiTimes doesn’t have the best record on such advanced device rumors, Quanta already builds RIM’s PlayBook, which we noted had excellent build quality . This particular rumor also gels with earlier analysis by Forrester researcher Sarah Rotman, who suggested that Amazon was in the best position to compete with Apple in the tablet space if it could put together decent hardware with a color screen. Read the comments on this post
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