Samsung Earnings Beat Expectations Even As Legal Battle With ...

Steven Kovach, Business Insider

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of sales in flat panels and smartphones even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple's iPhone.

Samsung said Friday in a regulatory filing that its net profit reached 4 trillion won ($3.5 billion) in the three months that ended in December. The company earned 3.4 trillion won in the same quarter a year earlier.

The Suwon, South Korea-based company said its operating profit jumped 75.8 percent to 5.3 trillion won in the fourth quarter. The figure was closely in line with the company's estimate earlier this month of a 73 percent rise.

Samsung, the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips and liquid crystal displays, said demand for semiconductors in mobile products and servers remained solid despite weakness in personal computers, which face stiff competition from the rising popularity of tablets.

Samsung has over the decades grown into a key global manufacturer of components that let PCs, digital music players and handsets store data and display it on flat, high-resolution screens. The company has recently been stepping up its challenge against Apple Inc. in the global smartphone business, releasing models such as the Galaxy S II.

Cupertino, California-based Apple, which spurred the smartphone boom with the launch of its iPhone in 2007, has accused Samsung of "slavishly" copying its smartphone and iPad in design, user interface and packaging. Apple sued Samsung in April last year in the United States.

The legal battle has now spilled into 10 countries, according to Samsung officials. Court rulings so far have tended to side with Apple.

The quarterly profit brought the 2011 net profit to 13.7 trillion won, down 15 percent from the previous year, Samsung said.

"If profit in handsets continues to stream in, this year will also likely be a solid one for Samsung," said Jae Lee, an analyst at Daiwa Securities in Seoul. "The biggest threat would be if the global economy worsens."

Lee said legal battles with Apple would start weighing less on Samsung this year as the South Korean company is expected to release models with new designs.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-earnings-q4-2012-1

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Nadal beats Federer in Australian Open semifinal (AP)

MELBOURNE, Australia ? Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-4 in an Australian Open semifinal on Thursday night, the longtime rivals playing with the intensity they normally display when they meet in Grand Slam finals.

Though the stars who have met in eight Grand Slam finals were on the same side of the draw for the first time at a major since 2005, they played as if the title were at stake.

This time, though, only Nadal will have the opportunity to win another championship ? on Sunday night when the Spanish left-hander plays the winner of Friday's semifinal between defending champion Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? Maria Sharapova overcame Petra Kvitova to set up a women's final against Victoria Azarenka at the Australian Open before the attention quickly shifted to a much anticipated semifinal showdown between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

Sharapova broke Kvitova's serve in the last game to finish off a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 Thursday, and third-seeded Azarenka beat defending champion Kim Clijsters 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to set up a Saturday night final at Rod Laver Arena that also will decide the No. 1 ranking.

Sharapova lost to second-ranked Kvitova in the Wimbledon final last year, her first major final since returning from an injury layoff following a shoulder operation in 2008. She has won three majors, but none since the Australian four years ago.

"In the third set, I felt she always had the advantage because I was always down on my serve," said Sharapova, who served five double-faults in the third set and 10 in the match. "I just told myself 'You just gotta go for it, don't let her finish off the points like she likes to.'"

Azarenka won the first semifinal after twice recovering from periods when a resurgent Clijsters seemed to have the upper hand, to secure victory in only her second appearance in a major semifinal.

"I felt like my hand is about 200 kilograms and my body is about 1,000 and everything is shaking, but that feeling when you finally win is such a relief. My God I cannot believe it's over. I just want to cry," Azarenka said as she choked back tears, then buried her face in a towel.

"It was just trying to stay in the moment. Kim really took over the second set and I felt there was nothing I could do. I just tried to regroup."

Clijsters is popular in Australia, where she's widely known as "Aussie Kim." She had most of the backing from the crowd on the national holiday in what is likely to be her last Australian Open.

Azarenka held her nerve despite the crowd and the fact she was up against a proven big-match player. Clijsters has won four majors and has defended a Grand Slam title ? winning the U.S. Open in 2009 and '10. To reach the semifinals, the Belgian saved four match points despite a sprained ankle to beat French Open champion Li Na in the fourth round and then beat top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki in the quarterfinals.

"I guess before you all thought I was a mental case," Azarenka said in a courtside interview. "I was just young and emotional. I'm really glad the way I fight, that's the most thing I'm really proud of. I fight for every ball."

Clijsters credited Azarenka with increasing maturity.

"The match was very close. There were a few deciding moments where I think I maybe had a little bit of an advantage, in the third set, especially that first game where I had break point," Clijsters said. "But she definitely played really well. So she deserved to win at the end."

Wozniacki will vacate top spot in next week's rankings after her quarterfinal loss, leaving either No. 3 Azarenka and No. 4 Sharapova to move to the top.

The top men's ranking won't be at issue Thursday night. Novak Djokovic ? who plays Andy Murray in another semifinal on Friday ? has that locked up regardless of the Australian Open results.

But the Nadal-Federer semifinal will mark the first time since the French Open in 2005 that the pair have met at the next-to-last stage of any Grand Slam. Federer and Nadal were Nos. 1 and 2 for most of five years from 2005 to 2010, meaning they were on opposite sides of the draw and could not meet until the final.

That changed at this tournament when No. 2 Nadal and No. 3 Federer both ended up in the bottom half of the draw. Five matches later, the players with 26 Grand Slam singles titles between them ? Federer 16, Nadal 10 ? will meet.

Nadal has won 17 of their 26 head-to-head matches overall, including a 7-2 lead in Grand Slam matches. Federer won the last meeting, a 60-minute 6-3, 6-0 victory at the season-ending championship in November.

"We have been on opposite sides of the draw many times," Federer said. "I guess it's a nice change-up. OK, it doesn't allow a rematch for the Australian Open final here, you know, but I think it's good for tennis that it changes up a bit."

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Ala. university suspect wants report kept secret (AP)

DEDHAM, Mass. ? A lawyer for an Alabama professor who could be executed for allegedly killing three colleagues asked a judge Wednesday to keep a report into the 1986 killing of her brother secret, arguing it could prejudice a jury against her.

Amy Bishop was indicted in the murder of her brother Seth in June 2010, after she was charged with opening fire on her co-workers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in February 2010, killing three and wounding three others.

The charges in her brother's death came after a Massachusetts judge conducted a closed-door inquest.

The shooting of 18-year-old Seth Bishop at the family's Braintree home was initially ruled an accident after Amy Bishop told police she accidentally shot her brother while trying to unload her father's shotgun.

The Boston Globe challenged a judge's decision to keep the inquest records sealed, saying the release of the documents could shed light on why authorities didn't prosecute Bishop in her brother's death 26 years ago.

Bishop's lawyer, Larry Tipton, said Wednesday that releasing the "highly prejudicial information" contained in the inquest report, two months before Bishop is scheduled to go on trial in Alabama, could undermine her chances of receiving a fair trial.

"I think that that's a very important, unique consideration," Tipton argued to Norfolk Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fishman.

Deana El-Mallawany, a lawyer for the Globe, said the newspaper has been seeking the inquest report since June 2010.

"There's a strong interest in knowing the adequacy of law enforcement investigation," El-Mallawany said.

She said Bishop's lawyer in Alabama has already said Bishop will use an insanity defense, and her Massachusetts lawyer hasn't shown that releasing the inquest report would taint the jury pool.

But the judge challenged the assertion that publicity about the report wouldn't affect Bishop's trial in Alabama, saying it could "potentially weigh heavily" on her lawyer's ability to defend her in the university killings.

Fishman did not immediately rule on the defense request to keep the report sealed.

Last month, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled that the inquest report into Seth Bishop's death could be released publicly. But it also said Bishop's lawyer could go to court to argue that there was "good cause" why it should remain sealed.

The Supreme Judicial Court's decision also outlined new rules for the release of inquest materials. The high court said the automatic impoundment of the records ends after the subject of the inquest is indicted by a grand jury or after prosecutors decide not to present the case to a grand jury.

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Eyes On: The Nokia Lumia 900

Ah, so close yet so far. Nokia's new flagship Lumia 900 handset was on display here at CES 2012, and though we couldn't quite get our hands on it, we did the next best thing -- we shot some video.

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George Clooney On Gay Marriage: Final Leg Of The Civil Rights Movement

A long time supporter of marriage equality, George Clooney said on Thursday that he believes its conservative opposition is facing an inevitable decline.

"I think the world is changing and it's becoming less and less of an issue and I think it shouldn't be long now," Clooney told E! Online at the Critics' Choice Awards. "I think younger people are looking at this like, 'Who cares?'"

As his good friend Viola Davis won the CCA for Best Actress for her role in racial drama "The Help," Clooney linked that struggle with the current effort to legalize gay marriage.

"I do believe it's generational, much like the civil rights movement," the star, who picked up Best Actor at the CCAs, said. "Young people started taking to the streets and things changed. This really is the final leg of the civil rights movement."

In December, Clooney signed on to star in the LA staging of the play "Prop 8." Written by Dustin Lance Black, it is a courtroom reenactment of the courtroom drama behind the federal trial that overturned the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban in California. He told E! that he will be playing lawyer David Boies, who along with Ted Olsen, sued on behalf of gay marriage advocates.

"It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens," Clooney said in a statement announcing his casting. "I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people -- like all human beings -- are born equal in dignity and rights."

For more, click over to E! Online.

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Glow of recognition: New detectors could provide easy visual identification of toxins or pathogens

ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2011) ? Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of revealing the presence of specific chemicals -- whether toxins, disease markers, pathogens or explosives. The system visually signals the presence of a target chemical by emitting a fluorescent glow.

The approach combines fluorescent molecules with an open scaffolding called a metal-organic framework (MOF). This structure provides lots of open space for target molecules to occupy, bringing them into close proximity with fluorescent molecules that react to their presence.

The findings were reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in a paper by assistant professor of chemistry Mircea Dinc?, with postdoc Natalia Shustova and undergraduate student Brian McCarthy, published online in November and to appear in a forthcoming print issue.

The work could have significant applications in sensors attuned to specific compounds whose detection could be read at a glance simply by watching for the material to glow. "A lot of known sensors work in reverse," Dinc? says, meaning they "turn off" in the presence of the target compound. "Turn-on sensors are better," he says, because "they're easier to detect, the contrast is better."

Mark Allendorf, a research scientist at Sandia National Laboratory, who was not involved in this work, agrees. "Present materials generally function via luminescence quenching," and thus "suffer from reduced detection sensitivity and selectivity," he says. "Turn-on detection would address these limitations and be a considerable advance."

For example, if the material is tuned to detect carbon dioxide, "the more gas you have, the more intensity in the response," making the device's readout more obvious. And it's not just the presence or absence of a specific type of molecule: The system can also respond to changes in the viscosity of a fluid, such as blood, which can be an important indicator in diseases such as diabetes. In such applications, the material could provide two different indications at once -- for example, changing in color depending on the presence of a specific compound, such as glucose in the blood, while changing in intensity depending on the viscosity.

MOF materials were first produced about 15 years ago, but their amazing porosity has made them a very active area of research. Although they simply look like little rocks, the sponge-like structures have so much internal surface area that one gram of the material, if unfolded, would cover a football field, Dinc? says.

The material's inner pores are about one nanometer (one billionth of a meter) across, making them "about the size of a small molecule" and well suited as molecular detectors, he says.

The new material is based on the MIT team's discovery of a way to bind a certain type of fluorescent molecules, also known as chromophores, onto the MOF's metal atoms. While these particular chromophores cannot emit light by themselves, they become fluorescent when bunched together. When in bunches or clumps, however, target molecules cannot reach them and therefore cannot be detected. Attaching the chromophores to nodes of the MOF's open framework keeps them from clumping, while also keeping them close to the empty pores so they can easily respond to the arrival of a target molecule.

Ben Zhong Tang, a professor of chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who was not involved in this work, says the MIT researchers have taken "an elegant approach" to producing functional MOFs, and "have already demonstrated the utility of their MOFs for detection and differentiation of normally difficult-to-distinguish" molecules called volatile organic compounds.

Tang says the new system still needs further refinement to improve the efficiency of production, which he says should be easily accomplished. Once that is achieved, he says, it could find many uses. "Many more applications may be envisioned: For example, the MOFs may serve as smart vehicles and monitors for controlled drug deliveries," with the additional benefit that "the fluorescence should be gradually weakened in intensity along with progressive release of the drugs, thus enabling in situ real-time monitoring of the drug release profiles." But for now, he says, "the work is excellent in terms of proof of concept."

The work was supported by MIT's Center for Excitonics, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, and by the National Science Foundation.

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1. Natalia B. Shustova, Brian D. McCarthy, Mircea Dinc?. Turn-On Fluorescence in Tetraphenylethylene-Based Metal?Organic Frameworks: An Alternative to Aggregation-Induced Emission. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011; 133 (50): 20126 DOI: 10.1021/ja209327q

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