Rumours that Korean electronics giant Samsung was to outsource its notebook orders ahead of a potential move to buy HP’s PC business have been quashed after the company issued a statement noting it had “no intention” of making a move for the Hewlett-Packard’s computer-making arm. Last week, HP announced that it was to spin-off its personal computer business, indicating its intentions to focus on the enterprise market.Reports soon surfacedthat Samsung would make an offer for the unit, helping to position the company as one of the largest PC makers worlwide....

In the latest development of its ongoing spat with Apple, Samsung is seeking to block the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia and Japan. The Wall Street Journal reports thatSamsung filed preliminary injunctions at the Tokyo District Court – citing technology infringements – and at the New South Wales Registry, Australia – where it claims a breach of wireless telecom standards patents – in a bid to prevent the sale of Apple’s new Phone 4S device....

Sales of Samsung’s new Galaxy S II smartphone in South Korea have surpassed 120,000 units in just three days, almost tripling sales of its predecessor when it launched in June 2010. Yonhap News reportsthree of South Korea’s biggest mobile operators announced varying sales, with SK Telecom Co. activating 65,000 units, KT Corp. selling 40,000 units and LG Uplus Corp. announcing it sold 15,000 of the new dual-core Android smartphone. The original Galaxy S launched on just one carrier in June 2010, debuting with SK Telecom, selling 50,000 units in its first three days on sale....

Samsung has announced that it has now shippedover two millionof its Galaxy Tab tablet devices, surpassing the figure in just three months since the device launched. The 7-inch tablet is now sold via 200 mobile carriers in 94 countries, with 750,000 Galaxy Tab’s being shipped to Europe, 350,000 to North America and 330,000 units in Asia. It has taken roughly six weeks for Samsung to sell another million Galaxy Tab devices after taking just two months tosell its first million, meaning at the time, the electronics giant increased its end of year sales target to 1....

Samsung has been busy fighting numerous allegations that its Galaxy Tab device has been under-performing, stating today that analyst predictions suggesting the return rate for the device were ashigh as 15%are not true, when in reality Samsung puts them at “below 2 percent”. Posting in ablog post(the same blog it used to deny Galaxy Tab saleswere “quite small”), Samsung issued the following statement: The return rate of the Galaxy Tab in the US as claimed by an North American market research firm is incorrect....