Today’s mobile news roundup features Samsung being denied of their stay request, Toshiba fined for price fixing, and RIM expected to cut carrier fees.

Samsung denied injunction stay request

Apple Inc. won a second injunction against Samsung last Friday for the Galaxy Nexus.  Earlier last week, the first injunction was handed down against the Galaxy Tab 10.1.  Samsung was not very pleased with the court’s decision and already filed an appeal for an injunction stay for the Galaxy Nexus over the weekend.

Unfortunately, their request was denied by the US District Court of California.

“Samsung is disappointed with the court’s decision that denied our motion to stay,” the company said in a statement.  Samsung said they’ll continue to pursue an appeal of the injunction on the sale of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the U.S. and that they’re closely working with Google to resolve the issue since the patent in question involves Google’s unified search function.

Toshiba fined for price fixing

Last year, Samsung, LG and other manufacturers were accused of conducting secret meetings and conspiring to boost prices of some of their products, such as LCD panels.  The two companies shared information and raised prices of their products in tandem, giving both of them the upper hand in the market.

Of the accused, Toshiba was the only one who contested the claims and battle it out in court.

“We are very pleased the jury found in favour of the plaintiffs and found that Toshiba violated the law, particularly in light of the government’s decision not to criminally prosecute Toshiba for its misconduct,” said Richard Heimann, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs.

Toshiba still denies the verdict and and will be doing everything to overturn the verdict.  The company was fined $87 million for conspiring to fix prices.

RIM to cut carrier fees

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion continues to spiral downturn of doom and things just keeps getting worse for the company.  They announced that the release of BlackBerry 10 devices has been pushed further back into next year, making investors even more wary about the fate of the company.  Though some glimmer of hope shone down their path as a leaked document containing plans for upcoming BB10 devices recently surfaced.  It looks like RIM will be unveiling two BB10 devices next year with Microsoft giving them some much needed help.

But consumers are asking network carriers to cut the cost of their service, which in turn puts the pressure on RIM.  RIM charge their customers, network carriers, fees so their subscribers can access BlackBerry’s servers.  Carriers pass this fee onto their subscribers.  Subscribers are now asking carriers to reduce monthly charges, so this all falls into RIM’s lap.  Carrier fees generate  $4.09 billion in annual revenue and if this gets reduced, RIM won’t be able to survive much longer.