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1. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... the release of Android based handsets from several different OEMs, most recently Motorola, but also Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson, the buzz surrounding Android OS is reaching critical mass,” said William ...

2. Giorgio Armani unveils $1,000 luxury mobile phone

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Giorgio Armani and Samsung have unveiled a $1,000 luxury mobile phone. The legendary fashion designer explained that the high-end device "combined beauty with function" in a simple and timeless way. ...

3. Nanoradio takes on the giants: Forget Bluetooth!

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   One of the guys who invented Bluetooth spoke here at the Etre conference in Paris and claimed chips his company designed are ousting the top players in the industry.One of the guys who invented Bluetooth ...

4. First real Windows Mobile 6.5 spotted in Lisbon

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... of different OS. Which is another reason why it has beaten HTC and Samsung to the jump, according to ZTE head honcho, He Shiyou. TG Daily still isn't sure it really likes touchscreen UIs, though, even ...

5. Behold II! It's a Samsung Android phone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   T-Mobile said that it's introduced a Samsung phone, the Behold II, which uses the Google Android operating system.T-Mobile said that it's introduced a Samsung phone, the Behold II, which uses the Google ...

6. AT&T launches Windows and tilt phones

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... Straight Talk Technology for improved speakerphone quality. There are also two new models each from Pantech and Samsung that feature full web browsers as well as physical and virtual keyboards. They ...

7. Samsung touts DualView cameras for narcissistic social networkers

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Samsung has introduced a line of DualView cameras aimed at narcissistic social networkers. According to Samsung, the TL225, TL220 and CL65 will provide a "whole new approach" to personal photography. ...

8. Sprint touts 'environmentally conscious' mobile phone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sprint and Samsung have teamed up to promote the "environmentally conscious" Reclaim mobile phone. The device - manufactured from 80 percent recylable bio-plastic materials - will be available on August ...

9. 3D movie downloads due in Q4, says Sonic

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... support  Nvidia 3D Vision and 3D Vision-Ready displays, including the Samsung SyncMaster 2233RZ and ViewSonic FuHzion VX2265wm currently in the market for 3D gaming. "Nvidia has pushed technological ...

10. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... been an issue for Toshiba. Back in January of 2006 we reported that Samsung would be producing Blu-ray players through Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea (TSST Korea), a joint venture between Toshiba ...

11. IBM sued over DRAM patents

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Oki, Panasonic, Winbond, Sony, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC, Infineon, ProMOS, Powerchip and Micron. ...

12. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... size power strip (not included) as well as store away your adapters, or hang a power squid. Samsung Impression for AT&T: This metallic blue device touts the nation’s first commercially available AMOLED ...

13. IBM extends chip agreement with Japanese giants

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... NEC, Samsung, ST Microelectronics and Toshiba. The work is centered around IBM's East Fishkill fab. The alliance has already created 32 nanometer high-k metal gate tech and said that the 28 nanometer ...

14. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 6-9 months. And that achievement will be critical for the company to attract customers that compete with Intel. As the construction of new fabs will get more expensive (already today, only Intel and Samsung ...

15. G2 and entirely new Android cellphone code-named Fiesta spotted in the wild

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the second Android-powered cellphone, we also keep close eye on three new Android handsets that Samsung announced. Also, the Bluetooth group accidentally leaked a mysterious new HTC Android handset ...

16. Android G2 slips to May, Samsung plans three Android phones for 2009

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... G2's early advantage, forcing it to compete with Nokia, Palm, Apple, which plan on unveiling their next-gen smartphones in May and June. Samsung also announced it would enter the Android game with three Android ...

17. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Apple's PA Semi-acquired engineering talent (led by IBM's Mark Papermaster) should design this SoC based on the latest ARM CPU and Imagination's PowerVR SGX543 multi-core GPU. At the same time, Samsung ...

18. Apple to demo the next iPhone OS on March 17

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Samsung technologies? 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone system-on-a-chip Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhones iPhone may get GPGPU acceleration ...

19. Blue Earth: Samsung's solar-powered touch-screen cell phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Yesterday, Samsung unveiled its solar-powered full touch-screen cell phone, named Blue Earth. The phone coincides with Samsung's "vision for environmental sustainability," which was also revealed yesterday ...

20. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... panels from Samsung, suggesting that the Windows PC maker could beat Apple's MacBook Air in the ultra-portable notebook category. Although Adamo has yet to materialize, a brief notebook appearance at the ...

21. Qualcomm adds RFID-enabled tech to cell-phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... or MasterCard account, but the food is also ready and they simply grab it and exit the line. Additional NFC-enabled chipset makers include: Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola and Benq.See Qualcomm's press  ...

22. Netflix on Xbox 360 races to quick success

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... but are hesitant to upgrade to an Xbox Live Gold membership, there are plenty of other options -- like the free streaming features integrated into certain LG TVs and Samsung and LG Blu-ray players, for ...

23. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... - it‘s all the same. It seems like the only truly revolutionary ideas we even see any more come from infomercials. Why don't we have corporate monsters like Intel, Google, IBM and Samsung, who ...

24. RPI develops brighter whiter LEDs, partially solves current droop

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... with Samsung Electro-Mechanics, exhibits an 18 percent increase in light output and a 22 percent increase in wall-plug efficiency. This latter item is what measures the amount of electricity the LED actually ...

25. No recession here: Amazon.com reports best Christmas season ever

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... The weight of all GPS devices sold from Black Friday through December equals the combined weight of 151 Mini Coopers, Amazon.com said. The top sellers in consumer electronics included Samsung's 52” 120 ...

26. Dell’s super-thin Adamo notebook: Displayport, Blu-ray and $3000

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... been ordering ultra-thin (and expensive) 3.5 mm (0.14”) panels from Samsung, which could drop the thickness of the Macbook Air’s lid (4.1 mm or 0.16”). There is virtually no information on the standard ...

27. Intel increases share in Imagination, counters Apple move

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The world's largest chip maker has increased its share in graphicschipset design company Imagination to 3.04%. The announcement comesjust 48 hours after it was confirmed that Apple has acquired a 3.6%stake ...

28. Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... touch as platforms in mobile gaming. ARM, Imagination, Samsung - and Apple How it will all play out remains to be seen, but the most likely scenario is Apple's alleged triangulated deal with ARM, Imagination ...

29. Apple gets official acceleration spec for Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... AMD, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung and Texas Instruments.  “We ...

30. DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... sell DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft and other key IT players have pledged to support DP as well. Smaller than DVI or HDMI, the DP interface is easy ...

31. Semiconductor industry facing double-digit declines in Q4, into Q1'09

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... down. Foundry utilization rates are down by as much as 50%, and are expected to decline even further this month. Samsung, the number two chipmaker in the world in 2007, is the only company not significantly ...

32. Black Friday shopping results not entirely negative

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Pricegrabber.com, was Nintendo’s Wii game console, followed by Ugg’s “Classic Short” boot, Sony’s BDP-S350 Blu-ray player, Samsung’s 52” LN52A650 LCD TV and the Nintendo Wii Fit accessory. Ebay said that ...

33. Microsoft’s Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Imagination and Samsung technologies to design its next-gen iPhone processors. They think the next-gen iPhone SoC will feature the latest ARM design and Imagination's PowerVR SGX/VXD cores on a single ...

34. DVD sales plummet, last chance for Blu-ray this Christmas

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... which goes for $176. Sharp’s BD-HP21U is selling for an average for $191, Philips BDP7200 for $221 and Samsung’s BD-P1500 for $226, the price comparison service states. There are some exclusive-brand offerings ...

35. Netflix and Tivo teaming up for movie partnership

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the Watch Instantly service a much broader reach: Over the past year, Netflix has signed deals with LG, Roku, Samsung, and Microsoft to digitally deliver their catalog to televisions everywhere. However, ...

36. Silverlight opens Netflix to Macs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... than 12,000 movies and TV shows via Internet streaming. Only the basic $4.99/One-DVD-per-month plan limits video streaming to two movies per month. Netflix video streaming is also available through Samsung ...

37. Five products Apple should build

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... such as Samsung or Asus to get this category right. While the UMPC was originally envisioned by Microsoft and Intel as a consumer device, it is now the MID that becomes the Internet companion the UMPC ...

38. Samsung netflixes Blu-ray players, LG player in stores now

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Netflix today said that some of Samsung’ Blu-ray players devices are now capable of playing streaming Netflix video via the web. Additionally, LG’s BD-300 Netflix Blu-ray player is also on sale through ...

39. Apple cashes in on iPhone, leaves ‘junk’ to others

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... followed by LG and Motorola, with Nokia and Samsung leading the pack. The App Store is now close to 200 million downloads (and should exceed that mark today) and sports more than 5500 applications available ...

40. Best Buy drops Blu-ray player price below $100, sorta

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... the prices on three other Blu-ray players this weekend. The Samsung BD-P2550 now sells for $399.99, the BD-P1500 for $299.99 and the Sony BDP-S350 for $299.99. All Blu-ray players are offered with additional ...

41. G1 & Co.: Top 10 cellphones for your Christmas shopping list

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... with similar data plans will cost $2000 as well.) But then, it is a Google phone, and the name Google may be more important than the phones boring look and some hiccups in the Android software. 4. Samsung ...

42. Microsoft: No plans for a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, really

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ... to offer a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, as the company could easily tap Toshiba and its TSST joint venture with Samsung. Either Microsoft has learned from the external HD DVD drive and the indication ...

43. Microsoft reportedly ready to ship Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... might launch the drive just in time for the holidays and aim for a $100- $150 price tag – in order to steal some sales from the PS3.   Xbit Labs also said that Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology ...

44. Blu-ray player for $230, triple-core PC for $399

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... expensive, Samsung’s BD-P2550 is offered for $400; the BD-P1500 as well as Sony’s BDP-S350 sell for $300.     ...

45. Top 10 Mobile Phone Screwups

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... is. Bar the narrow keyboard, Treo Pro is pretty capable Windows Mobile smartphone. Samsung Instinct: Bad marketing cripples a great product The only iPhone challenger this summer, Instinct sells for ...

46. BD drive adoption rates slower than expected due to high OEM/ODM quotes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Acer and Asustek Computer, have asked global ODM/OEM makers, mainly Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST), Pioneer and Taiwan-based Lite-On IT, to decrease quotes to ...

47. HTC Dream + Android 1.0 = High expectations

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... cheap, there will be good reviews and there will be bad reviews. To us, it does not seem like a fully-baked device yet. Android will get much more interesting in 2009 when Samsung and LG will have their ...

48. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ...  2. Cheaper gadgets. Apple may put custom processor and graphic cores, memory, sound, and interfacing components on a single die and outsource the manufacturing to Samsung. Cost-wise, this strategy beats ...

49. Apple to build iPhone processors with ARM, Imagination and Samsung technologies?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... pieces have fallen into place and begin to reveal the bigger picture behind Apple's $278 million acquisition of P.A. Semi. Apple is believed to be in a deal with Imagination, ARM and Samsung to enable ...

50. Blu-ray on the cheap: Memorex has a $269 player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... if a price target of $250 can be hit. However, the Memorex player is not your only choice – other brands have been dropping their prices as well. For example, Samsung’s BDP-1500 sells for an average ...