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1. Global smartphone sales surge as mobile phone shipments plummet

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... to surpass 36.4 million units. Nokia maintained its lead in the mobile phone sector with a respectable 36.2 percent market share. Second place Samsung managed to improve its position with sales of 51.4 ...

2. Analyst gets excited about Apple, raises target price by 27%

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... iPhones so far and has placed orders for “100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash chips, with the bulk of its order coming from its main iPhone chip supplier, Samsung.” It seems that a ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... the gaming, photo and movie industry can now go fully 3D out of the box with little or no modification. The system works with "the new pure Samsung and ViewSonic 120 Hz LCD monitors, Mitsubishi DLP ...

6. DOT removes major hurdle to U.S. fuel cell adoption

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... on a single fuel cell filling. These have already been demonstrated from Samsung in August, 2007 as well as at countless trade shows and even Intel Developer forums. IBM also prototyped a ThinkPad operating ...

7. 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 ...

8. The second coming of Vista: Microsoft strikes back

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... The iPhone is already being challenged by Samsung, which is executing a very strong multi-million dollar campaign themselves with one of the most competitive phones. And Samsung will soon be followed by ...

9. Toshiba preps 128 GB SSDs for Q1

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... important company to bring a new dynamic to a market that largely has been dominated by Samsung so far: According to iSuppli, Toshiba is the world’s second largest NAND flash supplier with a market ...

10. Samsung regains lead in global desktop LCD market from Dell

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    For the first time since the first quarter of 2002, Dell has dropped from the top spot of global desktop LCD vendors. Samsung took over the lead in Q3 2007 with a unit share of 14.4% and a shipment growth ...

11. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... standards are about and how they compare with eachother. A recent announcement of a DisplayPort display by Samsung prompted us to compare formats and compare the standards feature by feature. Let’s ...

12. iPod and iPhone causing flash memory shortage – report

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 25% of global flash output. DRAMeXchange says it will take memory makers like Samsung “two or three” quarters to raise chip yields.  The report adds that a flash chip shortage will occur ...

13. CES 2007: A preview of what you can expect to see on the showfloor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Pioneer, Toshiba, Philips, Sharp, RCA, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony), we already count about 20 noteworthy announcements. The Tom's Hardware editorial team will hit the Las Vegas Convention Center to bring ...

14. CES 2007: Toshiba to show fuel cell-powered MP3 player

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Pre CES 2007 coverage - Following Samsung's recent announcement of a fuel cell-powered notebook that apparently can run one month on one fill-up, Toshiba will be showing an update to its active and passive ...

15. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... touts HDD/DVD hybrid camcorder and a $2500 50" LCD OQO releases model 02 UMPC Battle of the 108-inchers Samsung launches UMPC with flash hard ...

16. Samsung develops fuel cell for laptop

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Samsung has created a new fuel cell that can power a laptop computer for up to a month without any sort of external power, reports Korean news source Chosun Ilbo. Reportedly, the 1200-watt-hour fuel cell ...

17. Samsung develops cell phone fuel cell charger

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology has developed a fuel cell that can charge a mobile phone in a few hours. The small 180g cell generates 2 watts of power from combining hydrogen, methanol and ...

18. Isuppli questions value of SRAM probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      The US Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced an investigation of alleged anticompetitive practices among suppliers of Static Random Access Memory (SRAM). The US Department of Justice ...

19. DDR prices on the rise - Isuppli

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... for the memory just as DRAM suppliers were phasing out production of the part." Samsung maintained its position as the world's largest memory manufacturer with year-over-year growth of 21.8% and sales ...

20. Cellphone shipments to break 1 billion barrier in 2006 - analysts

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... posted another strong quarter with growth of 60.6% and 46.1 million phones. Samsung arrived as solid third with 18.4% growth and 29.0 million unit shipments. LG and Sony jumped by 40.5 and 41.5% to shipments ...

21. Windows Vista makes case for 2 GB of system memory, says Samsung

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... Vista right away, there's a good chance you will have to upgrade several components such as your graphics card, your mass storage devices and your system memory. The memory division of Samsung already ...

22. Market research firm says LCD and Plasma television sales up sharply

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Samsung is the top manufacturer, leading in both sales revenue and units sold. Compared to last year, all television shipments were up 2%.  ...

23. LG Philips wins $5 billion deal for HP LCDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... represents nearly 20% of LG Philips' revenue, and is sure to fuel the fire in their competitive efforts against market giant Samsung. Read the complete story. (GeekCoffee)  ...

24. Samsung readies portable fuel cell

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the research and development arm of South Korea's Samsung Electronics, has successfully developed a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), the company says. ...