There's nothing you can do to make a public Wi-Fi network faster, but here's a way you can make sure to get the best speed out of it. Don't move when you are on public Wi-Fi.
When you're traveling, chances are you will use public Wi-Fi at the airport. Here's a quick tip to get the fastest speed: Don't move around.
That's right, this might sound irrelevant but it's not. The vast majority of airports have a large Wi-Fi network, called a mesh network, composed of many access points. Think of them as little Wi-Fi satellites that carry a portion of the airport's router's signal. When you first connect to Wi-Fi at the airport, you'll likely connect to the access point that gives out the best signal at your current location. If you walk into a new area, farther away from the access point you're connected to, your device won't necessarily switch you to a new, closer access point. This translates to slow speed and even disconnection.
So, when you have to move from one place to another, even just a few feet apart, if you feel your internet experience has clearly slowed down, it's best to re-establish your connection. It's easy: Just turn on airplane mode on your device for a few seconds, then turn it off. Your device will now look for the best access point based on your current location. And then, again, stop moving around when you don't need to.
Dish is the first US pay-TV company letting customers search and play anything from YouTube on its set-top box, the souped-up DVR Hopper 3.
Dish HopperSarah Tew/CNET
Dish debuted the YouTube app on its Hopper 3 DVR late Thursday, becoming the first pay-TV company to enable videos from the massive site to play through its set-top box alongside traditional TV.
Practically speaking, this means Dish customers can search, browse and play YouTube videos without switching inputs and devices.
But symbolically, the move puts YouTube's content on a level playing field with "real TV." Google's YouTube, by far the most-popular video site on the internet, has helped give rise to new categories of video entertainment, such as gaming, vlogs and digital stars so closely linked to the platform that they're known as YouTubers. The company's foundation as a user-upload site had led some to dismiss its stars and viral clips as low-quality entertainment versus "premium" TV programming. In other words, YouTube is empty-calorie snacking compared with the full-fledged meals of real TV.
With YouTube now at greater parity with regular television programming on Dish's box, pay-TV customers can decide for the first time if YouTube is actually "premium" for them, too.
The YouTube app was included in the satellite TV company's latest software update pushed to Hopper 3 set-top boxes on Thursday night. YouTube joins other apps on Hopper such as Netflix, Pandora and Vevo.
Is Twitter down? Maybe it's actually still there -- get it back with this one quick trick.
Sometimes, when your favorite websites go "down," they're actually still right there. You just can't see them, because your computer doesn't know how to get there.
What if you could give your PC some better driving directions right now, in just a minute or two tops?
To do that, you just need to change your DNS server.
What's a DNS server?
"CNET.com" is just the street address of this website. To figure out the "driving directions," if you will, your computer contacts a special server (called DNS, for Domain Name System) to figure out the route. It tells your web browser that "CNET.com" actually means "203.36.226.2". That number, known as an IP address, is a far better description of where CNET actually lives.
But if your DNS server goes down, you might have some trouble. Switch to another public DNS server to resolve those issues.
How to change your DNS in Windows.
How do I change my DNS on Windows?
Hit Start and type Network and Sharing Center (or right-click on your Wi-Fi icon and click it there).
Click on Change Adapter Settings (on the left).
Right-click on your active network connection, then hit Properties.
Left-click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and hit Properties. (If you use IPv6, change that one also/instead.)
Click on "Use the following DNS server addresses:" and type in one of the following public DNS server addresses:
208.67.220.220 or 208.67.222.222 = OpenDNS
8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 = GoogleDNS
84.200.69.80 or 84.200.70.40 = DNS.Watch
64.6.64.6 or 64.6.65.6 = VeriSign Public DNS
Note that you may need to try more than one to get your sites working. OpenDNS helped us around this recent Twitter and Netflix outage, but GoogleDNS didn't.
How do I change DNS on Mac?
System Preferences
Network
Click the DNS tab
Click the little + sign at the lower left to add a new DNS server
Type in the numbers of a public DNS server (see four suggestions in the Windows section above)
Click OK
Click Apply
How to change your DNS on a recent Mac OS X machine.
Before you can begin taking stellar photos with your new Google Pixel, you need to learn a thing or two about the camera app itself.
For those who've used Google's Camera app previously, you'll feel right at home with a few minor tweaks. Those coming from a competing Android handset or an iPhone, you'll get the hang of it in no time.
Here are eight tips to help you get the most out of the Google Pixel's camera:
Quickly open the camera from anywhere
Samsung uses a double-press of the home button as a camera shortcut. Starting with iOS 10, Apple uses a quick swipe to the left on the home screen to launch the camera.
With the Pixel, Google uses the lock/power button. This feature first launched with the 2015 crop of Nexus devices, and it's a welcomed carryover to the Pixel line.
Double-press the power button and the camera app will open, regardless if the phone is locked or if you're composing an email.
Double-twist your wrist
Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET
When taking a photo you can switch between the rear and front camera by tapping on a button to the left of the shutter release, or use a fancy new Moves gesture.
Using the same motion as turning a door handle, twist your wrist two times when in the camera app and the phone will switch between cameras. Twist again to go back to the previous camera.
The new feature is enabled by default in the Moves section of the Settings app, where you can view an animated tutorial detailing how to use it, or if you'd prefer, turn it off.
Shooting modes are kind of hidden
Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET
For iOS users who are accustomed to various shooting modes being visible, switching between modes may be a bit confusing on the Pixel.
The trick? Swipe in from the left-edge of the display to slide out a list of modes and the Settings button.
Currently, the list of shooting modes include: Slow Motion, Panorama, Photo Sphere and Lens Blur.
Give the volume button a job
Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET
Out of the box, the volume button will act as a shutter release when using the camera app. However, you can go into the Camera settings and set it to control zoom, or remove any camera-related tasks from the button.
Change picture, video quality
Customize the picture and video quality your Pixel captures by opening the Camera settings, and switching to your preferred resolution.
For whatever reason, Google is shipping the Pixel with 4K disabled by default. With free unlimited storage at full quality, there's no reason to have 4K turned off.
Disable video stabilization
As long as you aren't panning around when recording video with stabilization turned on, the feature is really impressive. However, if you're walking around or moving the phone quite a bit, stabilization causes the video to jump around a lot. For some, it's acceptable. For others, it's annoying.
You can turn off Video Stabilization in the Camera's settings.
To auto-create a GIF or not, that is the question
When you press and hold on the camera's shutter button, it rapidly captures photos one after another.
Because Google Photos is awesome and likes to combine burst photo sessions into an animated image, the Pixel's camera app naturally does the same.
But if you hate seeing your photos come to life, you can disable the feature in the Camera's settings.
App shortcut
Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET
Don't forget you can long-press on the camera app's icon to bring up shortcuts to taking a selfie or recording a video without interacting with the app itself.
Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama is set to sign the most substantial piece of cyber security legislation in years, after an intense sprint of 24/7 negotiations managed to get the bill ready in time to be attached to the government spending measure the House and Senate approved Friday.
But privacy advocates say those midnight, closed-door negotiations have walked back hard-won protections.
Known by the buzzword of "information sharing," the bill is designed to give companies legal cover to share data about cyberattacks with each other and with the government. The legislation would protect those companies from being sued for sharing that information, for example from antitrust claims.
The premise for the bill, which has been heavily lobbied for by the Chamber of Commerce and financial services sector, is that cyber attackers use the same techniques and tactics repeatedly on a wide range of targets. Allowing those organizations to communicate what they see and how they block it with each other, then, would give companies defending their computer networks an upper hand against hacks.
But while companies claim that they are unable to share information now for fear of lawsuits, the bill has been staunchly opposed by privacy and civil liberties groups who say it is merely an expansion of surveillance and curtailing of consumers' privacy rights.
And those groups say the blame lies at the White House for letting the measure go forward.
"I think they completely bent over, they went a 180 on their previous positions, and it's really disappointing," said Robyn Greene, policy counsel at New America's Open Technology Institute. "I think after Sony [was hacked by the North Koreans] they got to a point that they were sick of trying and decided they would rather get something done rather than do something right."
One major complaint: the cyber information shared would go to federal agencies including the Defense Department and NSA, and the "purposes" allowed under the bill for the government to spread the data have been criticized as far too broad.
Obama plans to sign the omnibus bill when it reaches his desk, and the White House praised the cyber component.
"We are pleased that the omnibus includes cybersecurity information sharing legislation," a senior administration official told CNN. "The President has long called on Congress to pass cybersecurity information sharing legislation that will help the private sector and government share more cyber threat information by providing for targeted liability protections while carefully safeguarding privacy, confidentiality, and civil liberties."
Security debate
The measure has been under development for several years. It faltered in the Senate in 2014, never reaching the floor for a vote, but the House passed two versions of the legislation in April and the Senate followed suit with its own take in October. All that was left was reconciling the bills' differences with White House input and getting both chambers to approve the new legislation to send to Obama. The omnibus provided the opportunity to move ahead.
The bill comes amid a heightened attention on cybersecurity nationally and in the presidential race. Republican candidates regularly criticize the administration for allowing other nation states, like China, to engage in broad hacking of American companies and the government itself.
An unrelated debate about encryption software, which law enforcement officials say terrorists are increasingly using to communicate, has also been heating up. While this bill does not in any way address encryption, its moment in the spotlight comes as hawks are calling for greater U.S. defenses and offensive capabilities in cyberspace.
Privacy advocates worry
Privacy advocates say the new legislation than any version of the bill seen previously.
Complaints about the bill center around what is actually shared by companies. Groups argue that the definition of what is pertinent to cybersecurity is too broad, and the burden on companies to scrub personally identifiable information from that data is too lax. The final version of the bill compels entities to remove information they "know" is extraneous personal information; some earlier versions used "reasonably believe" instead, putting more burden on companies.
The bill's fiercest critic, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, has said he is not opposed to cybersecurity improvements, but the bill would sacrifice privacy for not enough gain.
"This 'cybersecurity' bill was a bad bill when it passed the Senate and it is an even worse bill today. Americans deserve policies that protect both their security and their liberty. This bill fails on both counts," Wyden said in a statement.
"I think this is very much on President Obama's shoulders," said Evan Greer, campaign director at Fight for the Future, an open Internet advocacy group. "His administration threatened to veto a very similar piece of legislation in 2013, and since then they've done a real about-face on this and are now cheerleading for a bill that's the worst we've seen yet."
Supporters and authors of the bill say the privacy groups are crying wolf in bad faith -- saying that this version of the bill is the best one yet and that it addresses a very real concern. Aside from the White House, the bill has the support of prominent Democrats in both chambers, including Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein and House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff.
Hill staffers familiar with negotiations also deny that anyone was excluded from negotiations, but said the time came for a close circle to get things done.
"This has been a bill that's been around for what, five years? And it had the most input of everything, but at the end of the day, people have to sit down and hammer out the text, and that's what happened over the last couple weeks," said one senior Democratic congressional staffer involved in the negotiations.
The staffer acknowledged the bill isn't the most pro-privacy version of the legislation put forward, but said it was the most pro-privacy version that could pass Congress.
"At the end of the day, we had to get this bill done," the staffer said.
If the advent of SSDs over the past eight years has taught us anything, it’s that storage performance matters. One of the best ways to breathe new life into an old rig is to drop an SSD in it. This truism holds true for phones as well, and we’ve seen multiple vendors make strides over the last few years to improve read and write speeds. New data on Apple’s iPhone 7 suggests that Apple cut some corners in this department.
I haven’t seen this covered before, and a quick check of various sites suggests why — the vast majority of iPhone reviews have been conducted on models with 128-256GB of storage, not the 32GB variant. Now, it’s a well-known fact that larger SSDs tend to also be faster SSDs, but we haven’t seen this tested much in smartphones. According to Unbox Therapy’s Lew Hilsenteger, there’s an up to 8x speed difference between the 32GB and 256GB Apple iPhone 7 in speed tests.
Now, this is a fairly ugly showing for the iPhone 7 32GB, but dedicated storage tests aren’t always the best way to check how fast a device really is. Much like RAM bandwidth tests, storage benchmarks don’t necessarily cleanly correspond to how fast a device is in the real world — a large difference in sequential read/write speeds might only translate to a small impact on boot time or even application load times. Desktop applications tend to be more latency sensitive than bandwidth sensitive in any case. That’s what makes Hilsenteger’s follow-up test interesting (the full video is embedded below, jump to 2:38 for the relevant portion).
Both iPhones appear to be hooked to the same USB port and Hilsenteger performs the same action on each — he syncs a 4.2GB copy of Star Wars: A New Hope to both iPhones and measures how long it took to do it. The iPhone 7 256GB finishes the copy in 2 minutes, 34 seconds. The iPhone 7 32GB needs 3 minutes, 40 seconds for the same job. That means it takes the iPhone 7 32GB about 1.43x as long to copy a 4.2GB file as the iPhone 7 256GB — and that’s not a trivial difference.
GSMArena actually hit this topic in early October, but the report doesn’t seem to have made much of a splash. According to their results, read speeds between the 32GB and 128GB models of iPhone 7 are nearly identical, but the write performance was similarly low. Their file copy tests also showed a much larger gap between the iPhone 7 128GB and the iPhone 7 32GB, though I’m not sure why (in their tests, the iPhone 7 32GB was nearly 3x slower, though the copy only took 52 seconds).
Why larger SSDs are faster SSDs
We can hazard a pretty good guess as to why Apple’s iPhone 7 32GB is so much slower than the other variants, though its not one 32GB owners will like very much. Here’s a generic SSD block diagram to explain the problem:
Note that each pair of NAND chips is connected to a channel. These channels are accessed in parallel — the more channels a device supports, the more parallel it is, and the more parallel it is (broadly speaking), the faster it is. But — and this is key — the more NAND chips you have inside a device, the more expensive it is. Imagine, for a moment, that Apple only sold a 32GB and a 256GB iPhone 7, and that both devices followed the pattern in the image above.
If Apple wanted its 32GB and 256GB devices to have identical performance, it would use an array of 16x2GB chips for the 32GB iPhone and 16x16GB chips for the 256GB iPhone. Since it has to pay for each and every chip, however, that’s not an appealing solution. Alternatively, Apple could buy 2x16GB chips for the iPhone 7 32GB and 16x16GB chips for the iPhone 7 256GB. Since the lower-end phone only has 1-2 channels, its storage will be much slower than the 256GB chip with all eight channels populated — but it’ll also save Apple more money than buying the smaller ICs.
There’s probably a practical aspect to this as well. Apple is betting it can get away with slower transfer times on the less expensive hardware because owners with just 32GB of space aren’t going to spend very much time copying data back and forth anyway. And given that file copy times still seem to be on-par with the iPhone 6s (according to GSMArena), the company probably thought most people wouldn’t notice. Still, it’s a bit shady of Apple to sabotage write performance just to pocket a few extra dollars. The company may have finally moved off its 16GB capacity, but it’s still going to gouge you if you want decent write performance.
Google did something unusual with the announcement of the new Pixel phones. It also announced a new version of Android without even speaking about it directly. These phones run Android 7.1 Nougat, and now the first wave of Nexus owners are getting a look at the new software. Google has continued its Android beta program, so getting up and running on Android 7.1 is a snap, if you’ve got the right device.
Android 7.1 marks the first time Nexus owners aren’t getting the full suite of upgrades from Google. The Pixel phones have some exclusive features, including built-in Google Assistant, the new Pixel Launcher, and fingerprint sensor gestures. However, not all of this is an arbitrary decision to add value to the Pixel. In the case of some features (e.g. fingerprint sensor gestures), there are hardware limitations in existing devices that prevent the feature from working. So, it’s not technically a Pixel-exclusive; there just aren’t any other phones that support it right now.
As for what you can expect in the developer preview, there will be a handful of noticeable changes. For one, touch display responsiveness had been boosted. There’s also a new storage manager that helps you clear old files from your device to get more space for new stuff. Android’s launcher shortcuts, which were previously demoed in the 7.0 preview, are coming back. Although, now they are called “app shortcuts,” which might be the least descriptive name ever. They’re long-press shortcuts that app icons can produce to specific functionality in an app. For example, the camera icon includes links to take a video and take a selfie.
To install the developer preview, you need to have a Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, or Pixel C. Other Nexus devices like the Nexus 9 and (maybe) Nexus 6 will be added next month. The easiest way to to go to the beta site and sign in with your Google account. There, you’ll be shown eligible devices. Once you choose to enroll one, an OTA update to the developer preview will be pushed down in a few minutes. Doing this will not erase your data, but it’s a preview. Things could go wrong, so back everything up to be safe.
If you want to handle the process manually, there are full system images available for download. This doesn’t require joining the beta, and you can install them even if you’re running a third-party ROM. You will need the Android SDK working on your computer, and your device’s bootloader needs to be unlocked. This will delete everything on your device, by the way.
While this is technically for developers, plenty of enthusiasts are installing the beta too. It’s a pretty smooth process, and you can get a look at Android 7.1 before almost everyone else. Google is planning to have a final version of Android 7.1 available on Nexus devices by late this year or early next.
f you’ve been on Facebook recently, you might well have seen a status update warning users that their entire Facebook history will become public unless they copy and paste the message onto their own page.
According to the message, “Channel 13 News” (nope, us neither), have reported on the change to Facebook’s privacy policy, which will become effective from “tomorrow”.
The message goes on to declare that by posting it, the user is forbidding Facebook from making their profile public, and if Facebook ignores it, the message continues, it will be violating laws including the Rome Statute and the UCC 1-308.
Here it is in full:
Everything you've ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook's privacy policy. I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future.
With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).
NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste to be on the safe side.
It’s a hoax
If you’re worried about your privacy on Facebook, and thinking of sharing this message, don’t. It’s one of a number of viral Facebook hoaxes, presumably created entirely for the enjoyment of the hoaxer.
While not the first time the post has been widely shared, it appears to be snowballing once again – as a cursory Facebook search shows. It appears to have gone viral in India, and then in true information-age style, effortlessly spread to the UK.
Luckily, Facebook has somewhat more sophisticated security controls, checks and balances than requiring users to copy and paste important-sounding messages. The site has a data policy that governs how information is shared, and states that users select what information is public and private. Only users can turn their posts, photos and so on from private to public.
Besides, citing the Rome Statute (global laws from the International Criminal Court covering war crimes and genocide) and the UCC (the USUniform Commercial Code), probably isn’t going to do much good.Facebook responded to the hoax status on Wednesday, saying: “You may have seen a post telling you to copy and paste a notice to retain control over things you share on Facebook. Don't believe it. You own your content and can control how it is shared through your privacy settings.”
How to protect your privacy
If you are concerned about the privacy settings on Facebook, there are ways of managing who can see what.
You can find out how to see what your profile looks like to a stranger, change all your posts to private, and make it more difficult to be found by following our guide here.
After Samsung's Note 7 fiasco, now it seems Apple's iPhone 7 has allegedly burst into flames and damaged a car in New South Wales, Australia.
7 News reported that a surfer Mat Jones had left his phone under a bunch of clothes in his car while he went to surf. When he returned, his car was filled with smoke, with the phone having ignited and damaged the interior of the car.
Jones told 7 News, "Ash was just coming from inside the pants which then, once you unwrapped the pants, the phone was just melting inside of it."
Apple is investigating the incident but so far all reports is just speculation.
Samsung pulled the plug on its newest Note device for good earlier this month after weeks of reports of exploding devices all over the world.
Does this spell trouble for the newly launched iPhone 7?
To find context ahead of Tuesday's showdown between Apple and Samsung in the US Supreme Court, you need to go back over a century to a row over some rather attractive carpets.
It's 1885, and John and James Dobson stand accused of nicking designs from other carpet makers and selling them off as their own.
A couple of companies, Hartford Carpet and Bigelow Carpet, were so incensed they took the Dobsons all the way to the highest court in the land.
The firms were quite right to be upset, the Supreme Court agreed, but then it got more complicated. The court hit a stumbling block over the amount of money the firms deserved in damages.
The issue was that the judges couldn't determine precisely how valuable design was when compared with everything else that goes into making a nice carpet. A lovely design on a poor quality rug wouldn't sell, after all.
And so it meant the companies got just six cents each. Which, even back then, was pitiful. Nominal damages.
This caught the eye of Connecticut senator Orville Platt who, pressured by worried carpet makers, lobbied Congress to amend the Patent Act to make sure design patents were given more weight. By 1887, those changes were written into law.
iPhone row
Senator Platt was looking to protect the interests of a thriving local industry - and he certainly achieved that.
But he also put in place the framework that means, 129 years on, Samsung and Apple find themselves arguing over the very same principle.
In 2011 Apple accused Samsung of being the Dobson brothers of the smartphone world, pinching three bits of iPhone design and using them in several Samsung devices.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionApple successfully argued that Samsung stole elements of the iPhone design
Specifically, Apple argued that Samsung copied the device's round corners, its bezel, and the app grid of icons when the phone is switched on.
Last year a court agreed with Apple, and so the amendment backed by carpet saviour Senator Platt was put into play.
The amendment that said if a company is found to have infringed a design patent, it must pay out all of the profit it made in damages or $250, whichever amount is greater.
It'll come as no surprise that Samsung had to do the former. The profit on the devices was deemed to be $548m (£362m), and in December the court ordered Samsung to pay that amount to Apple in full, which it did. But Samsung now feels it should be given back at least $399m.
Form over function
Several thousand cases are referred to the Supreme Court of the United States every year, but it actually only hears fewer than 100. The cases are picked carefully and as a last resort - if there is no acceptable precedent in law, that's when the Supreme Court, or SCOTUS, if you will, steps in.
Clearly, the decision over the complexity of carpet won't cut it in today's modern world. It didn't even cut it in 1885.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionSamsung is hoping to reduce the damages by several hundred million
And so the judges have taken this on to set a new precedent over punishment for infringing a design patent. It's not considering if Samsung is guilty of copying Apple (it did), but rather how much money Apple is entitled to receive.
The question the judges are essentially asking is: why do people buy a certain phone? Is it because of how it looks, or how it functions?
Samsung says it's mostly the latter, and therefore the damages should be a lot lower as there's an awful lot more work that goes into a phone beyond its aesthetics.
Apple takes the opposite view - it's the iconic design of the iPhone that had if flying off the shelves, it argues, and so if Samsung stole that design then that profit money should surely be Apple's.
Apple's gamble
We won't know the Supreme Court's decision until June 2017. But speculation among those in the know sides with Samsung in that it makes the most sense that Samsung should pay some damages, but not the entirety of its profit on the device sales.
"That would be the understanding the majority of law professors would advocate for," suggested Prof Andrea Matwyshyn from Northwestern University in Boston.
She said while design of, say, a carpet could be considered the be-all-and-end-all of its success, a smartphone is a far more complex device. Design is important, but not the only factor.
Image copyrightUS PATENT OFFICEImage captionOne of the other stolen carpet designs from 1885 - but will Supreme Court update its view on design patents?
Samsung has had support from its technology peers - most notably Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet.
Apple has backing too - Calvin Klein has lent its support, as have Adidas and jewellery maker Tiffany and Co.
The fact that Apple is pushing for full damages is a strategy that suggests extreme confidence in its ability to stay ahead of the curve in technology, Prof Matwyshyn said.
"It is a corporate decision that should be approached with thoughtfulness and caution, because the future of innovation is always uncertain.
"Tomorrow's devices may bring an unanticipated set of legal challenges.
"It's possible they view their own corporate culture so forward looking that they think it's more likely their designs will be used by others, rather than ever being on the defendant side."
Next steps
Tuesday's hearing will be 90 minutes long - each side will have a chance to put forth its view, and the US Justice Department will also have its say.
It's expected that the Justice Department's view will be that the law should be interpreted with greater flexibility, with more power given to lower courts to determine whether all of the profit should be awarded as damages.
That should be taken on a case-by-case basis that allows regional court judges to consider how integral certain design features are to the product as a whole.
If the Supreme Court accepts Samsung's appeal, the matter will be referred down to a federal court to determine what the damages should be - and potentially how cases like this will be dealt with in future.
