I had brought you a report, just the other day, about the heated legal faceoff between Apple and Samsung, what with the Appeals court granting the former to pursue its patent infringement case on the latter. Side-by-side, Apple's tiff with HTC is also going on in full swing.

All this hectic activity obviously keeps Apple alive and kicking, but is obviously tiring out the judges and courts concerned!

Now the United States Court for the District of Delaware ordered that the high-ranking company officials of both Apple and HTC get together and meet in Delaware to discuss a probable point of settlement to resolve the patent litigation between the two giants.

Some of you may recall that the International Trade Commission had ruled in favor of Apple in late 2011, regarding HTC's claim that Apple had infringed on some of its patents. This week, some of HTC's new shipments had been held up at customs, thereby sending the new Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE release schedules for a toss.

The talks between the companies, which are slated to be held on August 28 this year, will be moderated by Magistrate Judge Sherry R. Fallon. Meanwhile, Apple and Samsung have also decided to meet for negotiations on May 21 and 22.

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An Appeals court in the US today granted Apple the permission to pursue a ban on the sales on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. This goes against an earlier, lower court ruling.

Many among you may recall that Apple had slapped a patent infringement case on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet device.

While the lower court went in favor of Apple, the Appeals court has disagreed with that initial ruling.

Well, this fight will surely be going on for a good deal of time, so get prepared for more action in the near future, guys!

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Penetration testing or pentesting has now become a vital technique that companies use in order to maintain their data security.

While this method of hacking did not enjoy much of a reputation in the past, it has all changed now and has reinvented itself to emerge the best "antidote" against today's rampant hack attacks.

Has your company ever used this data protection strategy? What is your experience with the same?

In case you are a professional pentester, what do you think companies should do be doing further to safeguard against future attacks?

Feel free to discuss this matter in our forum.

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We all know how important functioning in the cloud has now become. Accordingly, Samsung has announced today that it will soon acquire mSpot, a Californian cloud-based media provider.

Samsung stated that this takeover will help it add radio, music and video services for many of its own devices.

This move will also benefit mSpot's cloud solutions by letting it build a much broader base across Samsung consumers on a global scale.

Samsung plans to acquire all of the company's products, assets and employees. Once the acquisition is done, mSpot's cloud services will be seamlessly integrated with all of Samsung's latest smartphones and tablets.

The terms for this acquisition have not been stated yet, but it sure looks like Samsung is all ready to forge full speed ahead!

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