Posts Tagged ‘Samsung’

Samsung could be acquiring the rights to WebOS to build a defense against Google’s Motorola acquisition and embarrass HP at the same time: Samsung could not possibly screw the old Palm crew more than HP did.

I have been at the SID conference for most of this week. There were a number of crazy things at this show, which focuses on display technology. I’ll walk you through a few of them that were fascinating, but the one I’m most excited about still isn’t available: An outdoor viewable transflective display. The sad thing is the first PDA I carried, the Compaq iPaq (ironically built by HTC, arguably the strongest Apple competitor today), had an outdoor viewable transflective display and nearly a decade later I haven’t seen another product that I could use both indoors and out. There is finally hope that this may be changing, thanks to Qualcomm’s Mirasol technology.

Intel has been leading the global chip industry as the dominant semiconductor supplier for more than two decades. However, Samsung is more and more emerging as a chip giant that grows faster than Intel and has come closer to Intel than any other company in the past decade.

The global hard drive market is apparently pressure in considerable volume and pricing pressure as Seagate announced that it will be buying Samsung’s HDD business. It will be Seagate’s second major acquisition of a close rival in recent years, but it won’t be enough to touch WD’s market share.

Perhaps we are a bit picky here, but Samsung’s creativity seems to have shifted from actual product design to finding compelling ways to patent products that otherwise could not be patented in a common sense world.

Samsung just received confirmation for a patent that describes an unmanned automatic shooting mechanism that is designed to replace security forces in locations such as airports, harbors, and nuclear power plants.

CES 2011 was surely not the big Google TV event many would have predicted a month ago, but Google is making subtle progress to build its army of supporters.

How long have companies been trying to offer a competitive iPod alternative? Copying Apple appears to be an acute addiction in the IT industry that goes hand in hand with a self-sabotage handicap to prevent the creation of attractive products. What are the chances of Samsung’s Galaxy Player being sucessful?

T-Mobile has begun selling the iPad’s most serious rival yet. The Galaxy tab is now available, but it isn’t exactly cheap.

Samsung unveiled a new Android phone with a unique feature yesterday – the debut day of Windows 7. I wasn’t the expected Google Nexus 2, but it attracted attention nevertheless.

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab is perceived to be the first credible rival to the iPad. However, it isn’t exactly built like a tablet, but closely resembles a larger version of the Galaxy S smartphone.

Motorola surprised us in June of this year with the announcement of an upcoming 2 GHz smartphone by the end of the year. And it appears that it may take a while until such processors will become available in phones as the rumored Nexus 2 will most likely get a 1.2 GHz chip and dual-core and triple-core phones seem to make more sense than bunsenburner chips in the palm of your hand.