Samsung shows slimmer LED TVs, slimmer Blu-ray console
In an era when HDTVs are being measured in terms of pinky-width, Samsung promises to squeeze that figure even more, while adding new interactive features to its displays' built-in IPTV functionality.
JE, 2:39 pm PST: On to camcorders: Samsung is announcing a flash-based camcorder that can record up to 12 hours of HD video.
Samsung goes solidly green
At this week's Storage Visions 2009 Conference on Tuesday, Samsung announced that it's preparing to ship a 100 GB solid-state drive with fresh green credentials.
The announcement indicates that the Samsung SS805 is expected to ship this quarter. Geared toward data-center servers, the drive has a random-read speed of 25 Krpm and a random-write speed of 6K. The company says that the drive can process as much as 100 times as many input/outputs per second (IOPS) per watt than a comparable HDD-based drive.
Samsung announces HDTVs with Yahoo Widgets
The broadband-connected television market will be in full bloom at CES 2009, with Samsung announcing that its newest lineup of HDTVs will sport "Internet@TV", a Yahoo-powered widget interface.
The availability of TV-based widgets traces back to last year's CES, when Intel CEO Paul Otellini showed off the "Canmore" system-on-a-chip in televisions and set top boxes. Later on in the year, at the Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco, Yahoo expounded a bit on the concept, adding its JavaScript widget engine to the Canmore architecture. Along with service provider Comcast, the companies discussed the Widget Channel distribution mechanism, and the various web-style applications that users would be able to load onto their televisions.
Samsung boosts its own 4G wireless chip development
While other manufacturers are pulling back on chip development because of the bleak economy, Samsung is now stepping up its work on WiMAX and LTE so as to bring down its royalty payments -- and quite possibly, its financial risk.
To cut costs by saving on royalty payments to Qualcomm, Samsung is expanding its chip development activities for 4G WiMAX and LTE devices in both internal and external directions -- bucking current industry trends to "conservative" development.
Sony Ericsson, Samsung could be readying high-end Android phones
Could higher-end Android phones -- complete with 8 megapixel cameras -- finally be on their way to the US? Possibilities seem to be unfolding from manufacturers that include Sony Ericsson and Samsung.
When Sony Ericsson joined the Open Handset Alliance earlier this week, a Europe-based company spokesperson was quoted in Swedish-based IDG.se as saying that Sony Ericsson's first Android phone is expected to hit the market this summer, and that the joint venture will initially focus on the higher end.
Successor to Samsung's Instinct lands on Verizon - not Sprint, not AT&T
The Instinct phone has been one of Sprint's bigger success stories of 2008, a year of struggle and at least an attempt at a comeback. But now, Verizon looks poised to pull the rug out from under Sprint here too.
The original formula for an "iPhone killer" in the marketplace has been a device which really does look like Apple's model on the surface, really does slide those tiles around the main screen, and really does present Web pages that look like Web pages. With 2009 around the corner, the formula is diverging into something less like a work-alike and more like real competition: How can a high-class phone address the customer who wants something that the iPhone and AT&T cannot provide?
Spansion seeks to bar imports of devices with Samsung flash memory
In what the company happily proclaimed to be "one of the largest patent infringement claims ever filed," flash patent holder Spansion Inc. has filed infringement suits against Samsung in federal court and before the USITC.
A boilerplate lawsuit filed against flash memory market leader Samsung in US District Court in Delaware yesterday simply lists six patents which deal with different aspects of the production and manufacture of high-quality flash memory, and asks for whatever damages the court sees fit to impose. In a press release yesterday, however, Spansion notes that it estimates Samsung's global revenues from the sale of devices such as MP3 players and cell phones containing this memory, to exceed $30 billion -- leading many to say today that Spansion has filed "a $30 billion lawsuit."
Samsung previews new ultra large LCDs now headed for CES
NEW YORK, N.Y. - At a pre-CES press event in New York City last night, Samsung previewed two new flat screen technologies, one suited to both ultra large TVs and 100-foot-wide billboards and the other to outdoor viewing in broad daylight.
At CES in January, Samsung plans to show new innovations in flat screen technologies, including one type of panel geared to LCD displays of up to 100 feet -- as opposed to today's limit of about 100 inches -- and another variety of panel touted as "the brightest in the world to be mass produced."
Samsung's Blu-ray players are next to get Netflix
Samsung today has announced two of its existing Blu-ray players, the BD-2500 and BD-2550, can receive a feature upgrade to support the popular Netflix streaming on demand service today.
These are the fourth and fifth devices this year to be granted access to the Netflix streaming library, and follow LG's BD300 as the latest dedicated Blu-ray players to receive the functionality. Both of Samsung's players are currently available for $399.99, roughly the same price as LG's player.
Samsung's bid for SanDisk is off, and so are SanDisk shares
This morning, global #1 flash memory provider Samsung announced it is completely withdrawing its bid to acquire NAND flash card leader SanDisk, and even provided a parting insult on its way out the door.
"The decision to withdraw the proposal to acquire SanDisk Corporation at $26 per share was made in considerations of the growing uncertainties in SanDisk's business, its stand alone value, and the current difficult economic environment," reads Samsung's public statement of its decision reached late yesterday.
Apple has a surprise competitor in notebooks: Samsung
Samsung is actually known as an innovator in the notebook computer field, having equipped some models with solid state drives as early as two years ago. But it hasn't made its notebook presence known in America until today.
While the requisite drooling over the new MacBook Pro's slick glass surface goes on in Cupertino this morning, there's a tsunami under way in notebook computing, and its source appears to be Seoul. Samsung today announced it is storming onto the US notebook market with a complete lineup whose marketing structure has already been tested elsewhere in the world, and with price-competitive models that have intriguing features and a promise for quality.
Rambus wins again as Supreme Court denies Samsung's appeal
In an effort to avoid embarrassment, Rambus sought to end a high-profile patent infringement squabble with competitor Samsung. A district court judge ruled Samsung couldn't let it go, but today the highest court says it must.
The US Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear memory maker Samsung's appeal in a case involving competitor Rambus -- an appeal which would have had wider ramifications on the market at large had it been heard.
Samsung releases 22X SATA and PATA DVD burners
The Samsung DVD formula has been high speed with reduced noise and lowered power consumption, according to a high-ranking official. Three new 22X internal DVD burners, which start shipping today, join an external model in the same series.
Samsung is today adding three new internal 22X DVD burners to the Super-WriteMaster S223 series first launched with the SH-223F external DVD burner released earlier this year.
Could SanDisk's plans for a music format get interrupted by Samsung?
SanDisk's potential acquisition, either by hostile Samsung, white knight Toshiba, or some other vendor, is likely to have little effect on its slotMusic product, said an analyst who has been watching the potential acquisition.
"Given that the acquisition, if and when it happens, is several months out, nobody can say," said Jim Handy, the Los Gatos, Calif.-based director of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm. "If Samsung is true to their word and allows SanDisk to continue to operate as a separate entity, then the service could continue."
Samsung makes a hostile bid for SanDisk
Following recent discussions between the two companies that caused speculation regarding a merger, Samsung has made a public cash bid for SanDisk shares.
On September 4, shares in storage company SanDisk quadrupled in value after a Samsung spokesman noted that there were yet unresolved talks between the two companies. Spokesman James Chung said, "We are considering various opportunities regarding SanDisk, but nothing has been decided."
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