Samsung and Apple will hold negotiations in the US on Monday, aimed at resolving a lengthy dispute over patents, a row which led to more than 50 lawsuits in 10 countries.

Borders. Here at the Engadget Mobile Podcast, we’re so over them. That’s why we let former Engadget Mobile CEO-in-chief Chris Ziegler come back and hang out on our side of the fence for a few hours, no matter where he comes from.

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. On average, North American consumers will spend a lifetime total of five days on failed attempts to pair their dock connector cable with an iPad or iPhone

LJ Rich takes a look at the low-cost tablets battling Apple’s dominance in India.

Last February, Apple came clean about its efforts to clean up the environment , detailing intentions to make its Maiden, NC data facility a greener place.

There’s a trend starting to emerge of judges wanting Apple to talk settlements with others rather than duke it out in the courtroom. Just two weeks after Apple and Samsung were steered towards talking about a potential deal, a Delaware court has ordered Apple and HTC to meet on August 28th in the hopes that they could shake hands and put an end to an increasingly hectic legal battle under the eyes of a mediating judge. Whether or not that happens is very much up in the air

China Mobile, the main mobile service provider in China and the largest in the world by users, could soon offer its customers Apple’s iPhone.

Bandwagons, trains and Tranes. Can’t say that these three have a heck of a lot in common in most regards, but one thing’s for sure: trying to stop this trio would be a Herculean task. And so it goes with laptops — once upon a time, it was good enough to have something that resembled a portable tower , but these days, the ability to even see the chassis at all feels like a negative.

The idea of a smaller iPad has been rattling around the tech rumor mill for many a month now, but the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen? That’s sacred surely

The idea of a smaller iPad has been rattling around the tech rumor mill for many a month now, but the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen? That’s sacred surely