German courts dismiss Apple's bid for an emergency ruling banning Galaxy Tab 10.1N sales, stating the Samsung tablet differs significantly from iPad.

“Apple’s iPads and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1N now are two competing products of equal value,” the court statement says.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1N is a revised version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, with a broader screen bezel, loud speakers and a Samsung tag on the front. The Dusseldorf appeals court banned German sales of the original Tab 10.1 earlier this Continue reading...

Apple blows its horn while revealing its post-Steve Jobs fiscal Q1 2012 results, with big numbers showing "record" iPhone, iPad and Mac sales.

iPhone sales for the quarter total 37.04M units-- a 128% Y-o-Y increase, making CEO Tim Cook boast Apple could have sold even more units if it had more supply during the company earnings call. In comparison, Samsung sold 35M units during Q4 2011.

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Ingram Micro promotes current president and COO Alain Monie to CEO, replacing Gregory M. Spierkel.

Spierkel was CEO since 2005, and will assist the company in the management transition until April 15 2012. In a company statement, Spierkel says he wants to spend more  time with his family.

Monie will retain his position as president. He first joined Ingram Micro in January 2003 as executive VP, and left the company to become April Management CEO in 2010 before returning to Ingram Micro in November 2 Continue reading...

Is RIM looking for a potential buyer? According to Reuters recent market rumours suggest Goldman Sachs is helping the BlackBerry maker "explore strategic options."

This is not the first time RIM takeover speculation is popping up-- last month Reuters reported Amazon was considering to buy RIM (before backing off) while the Wall Street Journal said Microsoft and Nokia were also planning to make a joint bid for RIM.

As one expects, RIM and Goldman Sachs are still to either confirm or deny the buyout Continue reading...

Intel announces two mobile device partnerships at CES 2012-- one with Lenovo, the other with Motorola Mobility. The company has been long wanting to make progress in the mobile device processors, a field currently dominated by rival ARM.

Better known as a PC maker, Lenovo is branching into mobile devices. Not only tablets (of which Lenovo has a couple) but also smartphones-- the company reveals the first smartphone running on the Intel Z2460 processor (aka "Medfield"), the K800 smartphone.

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Apple opens its massive wallet and buys Israeli flash memory maker Anobit for $500M, according to Reuters and the Calcalist financial daily.

While no official statement is yet available from the typically secretive Apple, further confirmation comes from an unlikely source-- the twitter account of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natenyahu, who says: "Welcome to Israel, Apple Inc. on your 1st acquisition here. I'm certain that you'll benefit from the fruit of the Israeli knowledge."

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Acer CEO JT Wang says a number of the Acer products will soon see the axe-- the company plans to slash its product portfolio by two-thirds in 2012 as it hopes to increase sales by 10% Y-o-Y.

As Digitimes reports, Acer has "simplification plans" that should take around 3 years to complete. Wang says the plans will not affect outsourcing volumes to upstream ODMs, but Acer partners (including Quanta and Compal) decline to give comment at time of writing.

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Industries are defined by clashes between rivals. Think Pepsi vs Coca-Cola, Microsoft vs Apple or AMD vs Intel. But should we now forget about using the last example?

Speaking in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, AMD spokesman Michael Silverman insists: "We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mind-set, because it won't be about that anymore." Will AMD now carve its way forward without glancing at where Intel is heading?

If this is the case, it might mean the end of a rivalry (complete with legal feuds and blows) going on since the early 1980s. Intel was founded in 1968-- and AMD only a year later.