Another absolutely beautiful Friday here in Cali with a unique moon expected. Here we offer up another horde of interesting news bits and briefs to catch up on. No major theme emerges except for things in Samsung’s world. It was clearly Samsung’s week and it is just as clear that Samsumg really does belive that flooding the smartphone market with product is a valid competitive strategy and they plan to exploit it. Other once-major players like RIM, Dell, Nokia and Microsoft are attempting to thrive and survive by redefining themselves and their business models.
Here is the list of tech news bits that caught our attention this past week.
- Oracle and Yahoo case goes to a stuck jury. Verdict still pending
- Yahoo CEO facing charges of submitting a False Resume
- Samsung Galaxy S III to bundle in 50GB Of Dropbox Storage
- LG Optimus LTE2 debuts
- Successful Samsung Galaxy S III launch event
- Arrianna Huffington’s Role reduced at AOL
- LinkedIn Beat Earnings investors jubilent stock at All-Time High
- LinkedIn in acquistion mood buying up SlideShare for $119M
- New Trend: App Interaction (Facebook Action links)
- iPad pulls down over 68% share of the tablet market
- Samsung Galaxy S III S-Voice takes on iPhone’s Siri
- Zuckerberg Will retain Control of Facebook after IPO
- Nokia considering move from Microsoft over to Android platform
- Nokia also suing HTC, RIM, and Viewsonic for patent violations
- LG staying put, sticking with Microsoft
- RIM unveils new prototype
- RIM fesses Up To spurring Fake Apple Protest in Australia
- Target considering ceasation of Amazon Kindle Sales
- Sony promoting new Vaio T Series Ultrabooks
- Microsoft junking Windows Live brand for cloud services approach
- George Zimmerman’s Old MySpace reveals Racist Tirade
- Social Media Day is on June 30, 2012, events planned
- Google possibly facing fines in the millions over Safari privacy snafu
- Yankee Closer Mariano Rivera’s possible career closing ACL injury