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European Cell Phone Regulators Worried About War Between Apple And Samsung
Look, Apple, Samsung — your fight over patents and intellectual property could affect all of Europe. Think about
that, while you're locked in battle over intellectual property rights! And now you've gone and upset EU regulators.
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Vote Here For The Worst Ad In America Awards!
You told us which TV ads annoy you the most, now it's time to select the worst of the worst!
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Samsung Tries To Distance Itself From Worst Ad-Nominated TV Spot
Yesterday, we announced this year's
slate of nominees for the Worst Ad In America awards, and among the TV spots slugging it out for the title of Absolute Worst Ad is one that appears to be for the Samsung Infuse 4G... or so you might think.
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Announcing The 2011 Worst Ad In America Nominees!
For the second year in a row,
we asked you to tell us which TV commercials get on your last nerve, and you didn't hold back. After sifting through hundreds of comments and e-mails, we've finally whittled down all those annoying ads to the elite few worthy of recognition in the Second Annual Consumerist Worst Ad In America Awards.
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Only Samsung Has The Power To Reinstall Windows On Your Laptop
When the hard drive of Joseph's Samsung laptop began to make clicking noises, he thought it would be simple enough to make a backup image of his hard drive, install a shiny new solid-state drive, and put the backed-up image on his new drive. This didn't work, and he's stuck without Windows on his drive. Now he yearns for those long-ago days when computer manufacturers actually shipped copies of the software installed on computers with those computers.
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Apple Injunction Forces Samsung To Pull Tablet From Trade Show
Apple scored a hit against Samsung in their battle for tablet computer dominance after they won an injunction blocking sales of the new Galaxy Tab 7.7 in Germany. Samsung then had to remove the Galaxy Tab from a big electronics show.
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Verizon Tech Support: Make Your Smartphone Stupider So It'll Work
Last fall, David upgraded his Verizon Wireless phone to the Samsung Fascinate, That's a decently powerful Android smartphone with a decent processor and the ability to run all sorts of online apps. You wouldn't know that if you were David, though. Even his warranty replacement phone is appears to be having software problems that make it unusable unless he uses it just for phone calls and texts, disabling everything else. That's what Verizon support has advised him to do. Because that's what people buy Android smartphones for.
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Samsung Cites 1968 Movie To Prove It Didn't Rip Off iPad
Responding to Apple's lawsuit alleging it copied designs for the iPad and iPhone, Samsung's lawyers have pulled out video evidence from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a 1-minute clip, the lawyers imply that the iPad-style form factor predates Apple's devices.
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Line Your Samsung Oven With Aluminum Foil, Void Your Warranty
Do you line your oven with foil? Rae does. She always has, and her parents always have. It's such a normal thing to do with an oven, it didn't occur to Rae not to do it. She lined her oven with foil, then popped a frozen pizza in there on the first night after it was delivered. The foil melted the interior oven surface, and now Samsung tells Rae and her husband that they've voided the warranty.
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Google Teams Up With Samsung & Acer To Release Chromebooks In June
After the commercial success of its Android smartphone operating system and the growing number of people using its Chrome web browser, Google has announced that it has made a deal with Samsung and Acer to release a slate of PCs running the Chrome operating system.
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