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Google is giving customers three months of Play Music All Access for free when they buy a new Nexus 7 (2013) before the end of September. The offer, which will save you $29.97 in All Access fees, is available on both 16GB and 32GB devices purchased from Google Play.

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We finally have a verdict in the high-profile Apple-Samsung patent infringement lawsuit, and it involves Samsung paying Apple $290 million for copying key features of both the iPhone and iPad for its own line of smartphones and tablets.

The jury’s verdict covers 13 of the 26 Samsung devices.

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Apple and Samsung will again go head to head in court this November after presiding Judge Lucy Koh called for a new trial to recalculate the damages awarded by a jury last August. The move comes after Judge Koh cut $450.5 million from the $1.05 billion originally awarded to Apple due to uncertainty over the jury’s findings.

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Apple and Samsung have been exchanging blows with each other in the Australian courtroom for the past two years. Neither side has emerged as a clear favorite to win, but the case is already breaking records.

Because of the enormity of the case, Australia’s Federal Court has appointed two judges to hear the case together. It’s the first time Australia’s Federal Court has ever needed to have two judges hear a case together.

By now you might have heard about Samsung’s monumental loss in court. If not, let me give you the score: 1,051,855,0001,049,343,540 to 0. The first number, you know, the one with all the commas; that one goes to Apple. Samsung — NO SOUP FOR YOU! The jury handed down a verdict today in the case of Apple vs. Samsung, and let’s just say Samsung was on the wrong end of it. Samsung was found guilty of willfully infringing on a majority of Apple’s various software and hardware design patents, as well as trade-dress dilution, and thus ordered to pay damages in the amount of $1,051,855,000$1,049,343,540 (WOWZERS).

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