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New Samsung Galaxy S4 TV ad: Not your parents' iPhone

At a graduation pool party, all the cool kids have the "next big thing"

FORTUNE -- It takes 1:30 for Samsung to demonstrate the Galaxy S4 feature set -- which includes, apparently, Smell-O-Vision -- by which it intends to reverse Apple's (AAPL) growing lead in the U.S. smartphone market.

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Video: Thousands queue up for Berlin's first Apple Store

It was Apple's 11th retail outlet in Germany, but it still managed to draw a crowd.

FORTUNE -- After openings in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg Alster, Hamburg Jungfernstieg, Dresden, Cologne, Oberhausen, Augsburg, Sindelfingen and Sulzbach, Apple (AAPL) finally built its first store in Berlin, and the faithful turned up in droves. The store -- the country's largest, with a full-sized auditorium on the second floor -- opened Friday at 5 p.m.

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Map of the day: What's holding Apple back in the developing world

It may not be the price of the iPhone as much as the economics of mobile broadband.

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) made headlines last month on reports that its iPhone shipments to India tripled in the space of six months. Since then it's instituted some aggressive marketing techniques, including an advertising blitz and a buyback scheme, that could propel the company's sales in the country, according to one estimate, to $1 billion MORE

A bad month for Android: April brought 7 major patent setbacks

April was the cruelest month yet for Google and Motorola on the patent front.

FORTUNE -- It was Google (GOOG) against the world last month, as it fought and lost patent battles directly or by proxy with Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Nokia (NOK), HTC and ZTE. "Google shoot blanks in smartphone patent wars," wrote Thomson Reuters' Reynolds Holding. Or as The Verge's Nilay Patel put it: "Does anyone know why Google bought Motorola?"

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The New York Times takes two cracks at Apple in one day

Attacked in the a.m. for not stopping cellphone theft and in the p.m. for not paying taxes.

FORTUNE -- Honorable men and women can disagree about whether a front page story in Thursday's New York Times, blamed Apple (AAPL) for the epidemic of cellphone thefts or merely accused the company of not doing all it could.

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What it cost Apple last quarter to smooth China's ruffled feathers

In one day, Apple's profit margin went from the high end of its range to the low end.

FORTUNE -- After Apple's (AAPL) quarterly report last week nearly every analyst we heard from pointed out that the company's 37.5% gross margin -- the measure of how efficiently a company turns sales into profits -- was at very bottom of its 37.5%-to-38.5% forecast range.

The analysts offered a variety explanations, but most attributed the reduced margins to MORE

The New York Times blames Apple for smartphone thefts

"This is a crime that could be easily fixed with a technological solution," quoth a D.A.

FORTUNE -- Slipping back into a lazy editorial stance that it rode last year all the way to a Pulitzer Prize, the New York Times has crafted a front page story about the growing problem of cellphone thefts that manages to shift the blame from the thieves who steal them to the carriers that subsidize them and MORE

Pie charts of the day: Tablet sales grew 140% year over year

Apple's iPad sales grew 65%. Samsung's shipments, according to IDC, grew 280%.

FORTUNE -- How do you make the fact that sales of Apple's (AAPL) iPad grew 65% -- from 11.8 million to 19.5 million -- look bad?

You bury it under a headline that points out, as several reports did, that its market share dipped below 40% for the first time.

The data come from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, which took iPad MORE

Report: Android's share of Web traffic is up 35% from last year

Apple's iOS is down 6.6%, but the iPhone and iPad still account for 59% of Web usage.

FORTUNE -- Netapplications' April report, released Wednesday, shows Android's share of Web traffic recovering from its November pause and picking up its slow but steady growth.

Google's (GOOG) mobile operating platform now accounts for 26% of Web usage -- up 35% year over year -- as measured by visits to the sites of Netapplication's 40,000 MORE

iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy 4S videos: Drop tests or IQ tests?

Reading the comments on these smackdowns, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

FORTUNE -- The outcome of the many drop tests that have surfaced on YouTube comparing the ruggedness of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with that of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 was never really in doubt.

In falls that shatter the screen of the new Galaxy, pop its back off and kill its camera, the iPhone 5 takes a licking MORE