Samsung brings the pink to Galaxy S III, but only in home market to start

Samsung adds pink to Galaxy SIII palette

In the last round of color additions to its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone, Samsung took a decidedly sombre tone, with new hues like Titanium Gray and Amber Brown. But, according to GSM Arena, the smartphone maker decided to lighten things up this time, going with a pale pink to round out its color selection for the model to a lucky seven -- but the new shade will only roll out to Korea, for now. It will go along with the original Marble White and Pebble Blue, plus the aforementioned dark colors which were accompanied by Garnet Red and Sapphire Black. There's no mention of availability stateside, but if you've been thinking of settling for a less capable model to matchy-match with Fifi, now you can go with power and panache.

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Facebook to charge businesses to run targeted ads in Offers service

Facebook plans to start charging businesses to run targeted ads in its Facebook Offers daily deals service.

The social network also is allowing businesses to add unique codes to their ads for better tracking of ad results. Facebook also noted in an email to Computerworld that the service will remain free to the users who claim the deals.

Facebook Offers is a service that enables businesses to post an offer, such as a restaurant or movie discount, on their Facebook page. While the service has been available for some time, businesses that want to push those offers to other Facebook users will now have to pay a fee.

Industry analysts say the move is good news from the company, which has been tarnished since its troubled initial public offering in May. After industry and financial analysts had widely speculated that the social network's stock price would skyrocket from an opening number of $38 per share to upwards of $70 or $90, Facebook's stock sank to below $20 a share.

As of 2:45 p.m. ET on Friday, Facebook's stock price was $22.89.

Since the IPO, Facebook has lost some of its luster and some industry observers have even talked about Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stepping down to let an experienced business person lead the company.

Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, said taking a step like this could bring in solid revenue and appease Wall Street all in one move.

"It is vitally important for Facebook to make forward momentum on initiatives that drive revenue and profit," said Moorhead. "Any move that Facebook makes to higher future revenue and profits will appeal to Wall Street. This is a nice start but Wall Street needs to see end-of-quarter profits to really be confident in Facebook."

Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group, said this is a good time for Facebook to start charging businesses for daily deals service.

"It's not a bad idea really, and it is about time they started collecting money for targeting ads," said Enderle. "It looks to be a solid idea, but with Facebook, execution has been really poor largely because of what appears to be massive inexperience with how advertising works. I don't think this is fixed yet and I expect investors will be watching to see if Facebook can execute before getting too excited."

Moorhead, though, said Facebook was smart to let businesses use Offers before they started to charge for the ads, giving them a chance to see how well the deals service works.

"This approach makes total sense," he added. "Before they can start charging businesses, they had to make sure that the advertising was effective... This is a very low-risk and high-return move by Facebook. I consider this low-hanging revenue fruit."

Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for Computerworld. Follow Sharon on Twitter at @sgaudin, on Google+ or subscribe to Sharon's RSS feed. Her email address is sgaudin@computerworld.com.

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Samsung begins producing next-gen DRAM for mobile phones, tablets

Samsung Electronics has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets, it said Tuesday.

The new memory, which meets a standard published in May, will allow future devices to play high-definition video in real time on larger mobile screens than is currently possible, Samsung said. The new RAM will allow data rates of 12.8GBps, much faster than the current generation of mobile RAM, which usually transfers at 8.5GBps.

 

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Samsung plans to drag iPhone 5 into Apple patent suit

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Samsung Electronics intends to drag the iPhone 5 into an ongoing patent lawsuit with Apple, according to documents filed with a U.S. court. Apple, for its part, expects to extend its suit to include the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and the latest version of Android, Jelly Bean.

The companies revealed their plans in a joint case management conference statement filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, on Wednesday.

Apple said it plans to extend its claims of infringement to include Samsung products released since the last case management conference in May. Having evaluated the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and the OS used in it, Android 4.1, Apple said it believes both infringe on the patents at issue, and intends to amend its suit accordingly.

Samsung has not had the same opportunity to examine the iPhone 5, as it does not go on sale until Friday, but the company said that based on information provided by Apple since the launch of the iPhone 5 on Sept. 12, it believes the new phone infringes on its patents in the same way as earlier models. Samsung anticipates filing amendments to extend its accusations of patent infringement to include the iPhone 5 as soon as it has had an opportunity to analyze the device, it said.

This is not the only patent lawsuit Samsung and Apple are fighting in the San Jose court. While this one has not yet reached trial, the jury in the other case found largely in Apple?s favor last month, handing Samsung a bill for $1 billion in damages.

The suit at issue here was filed in February 2012. In it, Apple alleged that since the filing of its previous suit, in April 2011, Samsung had continued to release infringing products, including several models of the Galaxy S II phone and two tablets, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Galaxy Tab 8.9. Eight Apple patents were infringed by some or all of the Samsung products, it said, covering inventions including the use of gestures to unlock a device, data synchronization between devices and the management of missed calls.

Samsung refuted the validity of the Apple patents, denied infringement, and accused Apple?s iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and new iPad infringed some of its patents. It named eight patents in its counterclaim in April, including one on touchscreen keyboards and one on remote volume controls.

Both parties sought damages, and injunctions on distribution of the accused products.

In the latest filing, both parties to the case asked that a case management conference scheduled for next week be postponed until November or December.

The case is scheduled to go to trial at the end of March 2014.

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