Samsung has backed up claims that it would react to Apple’s patent claims aggressively by filing four cases in The Netherlands accusing the Cupertino-based company of infringing patents with its iPhone and iPad products that utilise 3G technology. News of the new lawsuit comes fromWebwereld.nl, which details Samsung’s summary proceedings in The Hague, where the electronics giant has appealed for a Dutch trade and import ban on sales of all Apple’s smartphones and tablets....

Samsung will not be holding the Dutch legal system in high regard today after a court in The Haguedismissed the Korean smartphone vendor’s claimsof patent infringement by Apple, further adding to issues it faces with sales injunctions already placed upon its devices in Europe. In September,Samsung followed up claimsthat it would react to Apple’s patent claims aggressively by filing four cases in The Netherlands, accusing the Cupertino-based company of infringing patents with its products that utilise 3G technology....

Samsung has reported another milestone in its attempt to bring applications and services to consumers’ televisions by announcing that it has surpassed 1,000 apps on its Samsung Apps TV store, also noting that it has now facilitated over 10 million downloads since the platform launched. Sammyhub reportsthat the television-centric app store is now handling around 50,000 downloads each day, as users begin to realise the potential of third-party tools and services that can extend the capabilities of their TVs....

If you can jog your memory back a week, you must recall that Microsoft gave a Samsung tablet, built for software development, to each attendee of its BUILD conference. The company’s goal was to excite developer interest in building the new ‘metro-style applications’ that will play a prominent role in the future of Windows. Given that the event had some 5,000 attendees, Microsoft handed out a great number of the devices....

Manufacturers aren’t just starting up their hype machines, they are in full flow, counting down the days until Mobile World Congress commences on February 14. Samsung has begun teasing what looks to be its next flagship smartphone, the natural successor to the Samsung Galaxy S, announcing one of its famous “Unpacked” events just before MWC at a location in Barcelona. Samsung is calling it the “next evolution in mobile” and that’s about as much as you are going to get until the company starts making more information available by way of teaser previews come February 1....