Apple has lost nearly half of the $1 billion in damages it was awarded last August after beating Samsung in a high-profile U.S. patent lawsuit. The presiding judge over the case, Lucy Koh, decided to invalidate $450.5 million of the original damages owed to Apple in a new ruling today.
Damages were incorrectly calculated for 14 Samsung devices related to the trial, and Koh has ordered a retrial for the updated damages amount.
Earlier today Samsung’s official Twitter account tweeted an invite for the next Galaxy phone’s launch event. The teaser says “be ready 4 the next Galaxy” and includes date and time information.
Samsung will be holding an event for the public on Thursday, March 14th at 7 PM in New York City’s Times Square. A live stream of a coinciding “SAMSUNG UNPACKED” event for the press will be shown to the public. “Be the first in the world to experience it,” reads the teaser. Perhaps Samsung will have some devices on hand to let people try in Times Square.
This if the first time Samsung has launched a new phone stateside in several years. The device will be the Galaxy S IV and it should run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Good podcast catchers are hard to come by. Shifty Jelly has released a new app in Google Play called Pocket Casts, and it looks like the best podcasts app there is for Android.
It has been reported that Google is working on its own retail stores, but recent comments from the head of Android fly in the face of such a claim. Google’s Andy Rubin talked about the possibility of a Google Store at Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona.
According to Rubin, Google “has no plans” to do any kind of retail store in the near future. That doesn’t mean things won’t change, but Google has thrown cold water on the store rumor for now.
And one of those options is supposed to be Firefox OS.
Yesterday we showed you the ZTE Open, the first entry-level smartphone running Mozilla’s new Firefox OS. Other companies, like Sony, are planning to release Firefox OS phones as well. Mozilla has been trying to get the word out at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
During a recent talk at MWC, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs touted Firefox OS as a new platform to disrupt Android and Apple’s hold on the industry.
