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• Samsung Galaxy S III hits 30M sales mark

  Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone hit the 30 million sales mark in its five months on the market, according to a Samsung blog post Monday.

• Telecom opens pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S III

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• Fast Five: This week in IT 5/12/11

  Your guide to the biggest stories of the last week in Australian IT.
  

• US judge denies Apple request to halt sales of some Samsung products

  A US district court judge has denied Apple's request to halt sales of four Samsung products in an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit.

• Samsung overtakes Apple in Q3 in smartphones

  Samsung beat Apple to the top position in the smartphone market in the July-September quarter, taking a 23.8 percent share of the global market to Apple's 14.6 percent, according to data released by research firm Strategy Analytics.

• Samsung seeks ban on iPhone 4S in Australia

  Samsung has released a media statement today confirming it has filed a preliminary injunction in the New South Wales Registry to stop the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S in the country.
  The company also confirmed it has also filed a preliminary injunction motion in the Tokyo District Court, Japan.
  In addition to the new lawsuit against the iPhone 4S, Samsung has appealed last week's Federal Court decision to grant a preliminary injunction on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Australia.
  Meanwhile, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australians are acquiring Galaxy Tabs in the thousands from legitimate online sources.

• Analysis: the battle between Samsung and Apple heats up

  The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has reached fever pitch, with Apple getting an injunction to stop the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia as Samsung launches new versions of its smartphones to keep them on sale in the Netherlands. Both companies are also preparing for a hearing in California scheduled for Thursday.

• Windows 8 developer tablets go for $3,500+ on eBay

  Several of the souped-up Samsung tablets Microsoft handed out to 5,000 developers at last week's BUILD Windows conference are for sale on eBay at prices as high as US$3,500 (NZ$4,250).

• Dutch court bans Samsung Galaxy S, SII and Ace in Europe starting October 13

  A court in The Hague on Wednesday banned the shipping of three Samsung Galaxy smartphones to Europe as of October 13, ruling that the company has infringed an Apple photo management patent.

• Apple lays smackdown on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

  Apple has sensationally won a federal court decision that prevents Samsung's latest Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet from going on sale in Australia until a patent lawsuit is resolved.

• Apple files trade complaint against Samsung

  One good legal action deserves another. Bloomberg reports that Apple has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking to block the imports of tablets and smartphones made by Samsung. The move comes a week after Samsung filed a similar complaint, attempting to block the import of Apple's mobile electronics devices.

• Bad assumptions lead to false claim about Samsung laptops

  Bad assumptions resulted in what turned out to be false allegations published by Network World that Samsung laptops came loaded with a key logger.

• Samsung cleared of laptop keylogger accusation

  Samsung Electronics' laptops do not contain a secret program that logs keystrokes, security researchers have found, chalking the problem up to a mistake by an antivirus program.

• Mobile phones and apps: Best of 2010

  Call 2010 the year of the smartphone and mobile software. Phones like the Motorola Droid X, the HTC Incredible, and the Apple iPhone 4 -- and the many creative apps we liked this year -- made this the largest category of products in the PCWorld 100.

• Samsung, GlobalFoundries collaborate

  Chip makers including Samsung and GlobalFoundries have announced a development platform that could hasten the release of a new generation of low-power chips for mobile devices.