01/13/2010
Financial Times
LG Electronics said on Wednesday that it aimed to overtake local rival Samsung Electronics to become the world’s number two mobile phone maker by 2012 as the South Korean group moved to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing smartphone business.
Last year, LG continued to expand its global market share to about 10 per [...]
12/08/2009
PC World
Samsung has revealed a bit more about Bada, a new mobile phone platform that’s supposed to bring apps to cheaper smartphones.
Bada will include a lot of the features you’d expect in a smartphone, such as motion and proximity sensors, accelerometers, face detection, and location-based services. Bada-based phones will focus on apps, and Samsung, [...]
12/04/2009
EE Times Europe
LONDON — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double its production of chips for others, so-called foundry production, every year until it rivals market leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to a Chosun Ilbo report that referenced an un-named company spokesman as its source.
Global foundry chip production was worth about [...]
11/12/2009
Wall Street Journal
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. has closed in on Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest technology company by revenue, a surprising development for a firm still perceived by many people as an also-ran to Japanese electronics companies.
Samsung LCD monitors on display at a trade fair in South Korea on Oct. 13
It has risen to H-P’s [...]
11/11/2009
Wall Street Journal
Samsung Offers Smartphone Software As Competition Intensifies
By EVAN RAMSTAD
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. next year will produce smartphones based on its own operating software and encourage software developers to write programs for them, a step that puts the world’s second-largest cellphone maker in competition with some of its key technology suppliers like Microsoft Corp. [...]
11/05/2009
AFP
SEOUL — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Thursday it will pay 1.3 billion dollars plus royalties to US wireless chip supplier Qualcomm under a new 15-year licensing deal.
Samsung, the world’s second largest mobile phone maker, said it would make the advance payment for the use of Qualcomm’s licences in wireless technology including code division [...]
10/20/2009
Rapid TV news
The USA has selected its mobile/cellular standard, and has gone for a Samsung and LG-backed ATSC-M/H proposal. The big question now is how this decision will affect Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology, already being deployed?
The USA’s Advanced Television Standards Committee announced the final result of its voting on October 17, and says the full [...]
