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The ongoing patent battle between the dominant smartphone providers, is about to get its prime-time drama moment, when the CEOs of Apple and Samsung will reportedly be brought before a U.S, federal judge for mediation on Monday. Get ready for Law & Order: Silicon Valley. Read More »

The tough times for Nokia even stretch to its home territory in Finland — where the company’s traditional dominance of the smartphone market has been massively eroded in the past year, according to new figures from IDC. Read More »

 
 

How many smartphones did Samsung ship during the third quarter? Depends on who you ask. Strategy Analytics says it was 28 million. IHS iSuppli says 27.3 million. On Tuesday, Juniper Research weighed in 24.9 million. And what does Samsung say? That’s the thing: It doesn’t. Read More »

The chip industry is really good at making faster CPUs, but it’s lagged when it comes to giving the calculating cores enough information in time. So Samsung and Micron have created a new type of chip that boosts the amount of information memory chips can … Read More »

Samsung on Wednesday became the latest and most high-profile Android licensee to agree to pay royalties to Redmond. But the deal may not be so much “extortion” — as Google quickly labeled it — as Samsung’s lack of trust and confidence in Google. Read More »

Stephen Herrod - CTO, VMware at Mobilize 2011

At Mobilize, VMware CTO Steve Herrod laid out a mobile plan that reeks of success on par with what VMware has achieved in server virtualization. The trick to accomplishing that might be VMware’s quest to make its hypervisor technology a part of the core Android kernel. Read More »

Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant unveiled ChatON today, a multi-media group messaging app that will debut in October on its own Bada OS and will also appear on other platforms such as iOS, Android and BlackBerry. It will compete in a very crowded market. Read More »

To put to rest any speculation on this issue, I would like to definitively state that Samsung Electronics will not acquire Hewlett-Packard’s PC Business. [...] Based on the significant disparity in scale with Samsung’s own PC business and the complete lack of synergies, it would be both infeasible and imprudent to even consider such an acquisition.

Geosung Choi, Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung, in a statement released on August 25, 2011.

Smartphones will represent around 54.5 percent of the mobile phone market by 2015. IHS, a research firm, says global smartphone shipments of 1.03 billion in 2015 versus 478 million smartphones shipped in 2011. At present, smartphones have about 32.5 percent share of the market. Read More »

Samsung: We’re not buying HP’s PC biz

So, that personal computer business that HP doesn’t want anymore? The one with the largest market share in the world? Samsung isn’t interested either. The company attempted to put an end to rumors it was considering taking over HP’s laptop and desktop unit on its blog. Read More »

Battles in the mobile ecosystem used to be fought for developers, but now that clear leaders have emerged with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system, with Windows Phone 7 showing promise for no. 3, the battle has switched to patents. So who has them? Read More »

HTC spent $300 million to buy majority of Beats Electronics, a lifestyle brand that makes headphones. That deal might buy the company coolness but it might not be enough for a company fighting a tough fight with well funded and more motivated rivals like Samsung. Read More »

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Google said Android is a $1 billion business. Microsoft, with its barrage of patent licensing agreements with Android manufacturers, could be on its way to making $1 billion off Android if its licensing deals pan out. That could make Android way more lucrative than WP7. Read More »

Mobile phone manufacturer HTC has purchased VIA Semiconductor’s graphics business. The deal is indicative of the need for compelling graphics on mobiles as well as an admission that mobile device makers may get an edge if they can bring some silicon capabilities in house. Read More »

Google, Samsung and Aver are going to bring Chrome OS-powered hardware to consumers, businesses and educational institutions this summer. End-user pricing for the Chrome hardware starts at $349, and businesses can subscribe to a Chrome OS-powered cloud offering for $28 per month. Read More »

Google distributed some 5,000 Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tablets to attendees of the sold-out Google I/O 2011 developer conference, and GigaOM was in the house for the freebie. Since the device won’t debut publicly until June 8th, we filmed our hands-on unboxing of the new Tab. Read More »

Even the most bullish estimates for iPad sales were not bullish enough. I saw a lot of iPads across a hugely diverse population on my vacation, and this year we’ll see Apple take steps to maintain its market lead and battle Samsung for tablet supremacy. Read More »

In time, all predictions turn out to be either right or wrong. Mostly, they are wrong, and yet we love making them. I am no different, though I like to think of them as reasonable guesses backed by some logic. Here are some for 2011 Read More »

In a world where 300,000 Android phones are activated daily, does it make sense for Samsung to keep building its own smartphone platform when it also produces Android phones? Recent sales numbers and growing developer interest say yes; don’t count Bada out of anything just yet. Read More »

Sprint is rolling out a $4-5 billion plan to modernize and converge its network in a wide-ranging effort that will mean the end of its iDEN network and a possible embrace of LTE down the road. The plan will take 3-5 years to complete. Read More »

News ranged this week from impressive sales of the first Android tablet to an app for reading e-books. Samsung reported a million Galaxy Tabs have been sold, and upped its forecast for sales this year. Sony announced an Android app for handling Sony Reader e-book content. Read More »

Samsung, which has rode Android to success with the Galaxy S, is reportedly shifting its focus to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 in 2011. According to iMobile.cn, 63 percent of smartphones built by Samsung will be WP7 devices, followed by Android at 32 percent. Read More »

Even with release of the Galaxy Tab this week, it looks like the real battle to upend the iPad won’t happen until next year. Lenovo’s CEO confirmed that its LePad tablet won’t hit the market until 2011. LG also pushed back the release of its tablet … Read More »

Just over three years since introducing its first phone, Apple is now among the top five handset vendors on the planet. How did this happen? Apple improves on the product mistakes by competitors and marches in with many of the problems solved at an opportune time. Read More »

Rumors of a follow-up handset to Google’s Nexus One phone are filtering through the web with Nov. 8 the reported date for such news. Could a Nexus Two succeed in reducing carrier control where the Nexus One failed? It could if Google adjusts these five aspects. Read More »

Verizon Wireless will begin selling Samsung’s Galaxy S tablet for $600 next month. Many are bemoaning the no-contract price for this Android 2.2 slate, but it does offer features that Apple’s iPad doesn’t yet. There’s a market for 7-inch tablets, no matter what Steve Jobs says. Read More »

Engadget has a look at an upcoming Samsung smartphone running Android that offers a second smaller OLED touch screen below its main display. That by itself is intriguing, but when I saw the latest news of the Samsung Continuum, my first thought was why stop there? Read More »

Apple has sold nearly 100,000 iPhone 4 handsets through China Unicom in the first four days of device sales, while 200,000 total phones were pre-ordered. For 1.4 billion people, the smartphone transition in China is just beginning, but feature phone makers need to step it up. Read More »

MetroPCS launched the nation’s first LTE network today in Las Vegas, as well as the first handset to run on it: the Samsung Craft. The network will be fast, and the plans to get on that network will be cheap, but the Craft isn’t a smartphone. Read More »

Apple, perhaps worried about competition from the Android camp, maybe looking to develop a new version of iPad: this one with a 7-inch screen and bring it to market sometime in 2011, according to an analyst. The new iPad will allegedly have both front-and-rear facing cameras. Read More »

Samsung launched its iPad competing Galaxy Tab on all four carriers in the U.S. The Tab will come in 3G and Wi-Fi models, but 4G is not available. The MeeGo-based WeTab is launching next week and can run Android apps, which is a first. Read More »

Verizon created a stir this week as word spread it was replacing Google search with Bing on Android handsets. The irony was thick that a competitor’s product would replace its search on smartphones running Google’s own platform. Samsung has adopted Apple’s product line strategy to success. Read More »

Samsung’s Galaxy S is headed to the big three carriers in China, which gives the company a realistic shot at selling 10 million Galaxy S handsets by the end of 2010. How is Samsung able to shoot for large sales numbers? It’s taking an Apple approach. Read More »

amsung today introduced Orion, the company’s next-generation, dual-core smartphone chip based on the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture. Orion uses two 1 GHz processors and Samsung says Orion will offer up to five times the 3G graphics performance over its prior smartphone application processor. Read More »

The collective groans of supervisors was heard this week as the successful Angry Birds game was released for Android. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab this week, a competitor to the iPad. We took doubleTwist for a spin and found it to be iTunes for Android. Read More »

The parade of new Android smartphones continued this week with the appearance of the Motorola Droid 2 and the Samsung EPIC 4G. This week we reviewed both phones, plus we put them against the EVO 4G in a video smackdown showing the phones going head-to-head. Read More »

Samsung Electronics, world’s second largest mobile phone maker as a customer says it will use Skyhook Wireless’s geo-local services and build them into its smartphones starting with Samsung Wave. Skyhook now counts Apple, Dell, Motorola and Samsung as its device customers along with startups like Foursquare. Read More »

Things are looking dire for dead tree media of all sorts as the consumer electronics industry takes aim at newspapers, magazines, and the humble mass of paper known as a book. But between iPhones, dedicated e-readers and the much anticipated tablet, what does the consumer … Read More »

In a week from now, Apple may announce a new kind of a tablet-styled computing device that has more names than Black Eyed Peas has hits. But the important question for me is what’s inside. Today we have some details on device’s innards. Read More »

The new Samsung Galaxy doesn’t support Android 2.0, according to a report today, which means Galaxy users will be missing out on some pretty cool features. So why would any informed smartphone shopper consider buying the device? Read More »

Samsung today announced volume production of its latest Flash memory chips that will lead to faster, cheaper memory in a variety of consumer products. It starts with 8 GB microSD cards. Read More »

Investors will be keeping a close eye on next week’s unveiling of bada, an open mobile platform designed to sit atop Samsung’s proprietary OS. If the company can attract developers to the platform, bada could boost Samsung’s overall phone sales and help shore up diminishing margins. Read More »

Samsung, after unveiling its open mobile platform for touch screen-based mobile phones, bada, earlier this month, and launching a web site, has confirmed the date of its December launch event to deliver the bada SDK: Dec. 8th. Read More »

Samsung today unveiled plans to launch a new mobile software layer in the hopes of bringing high-end, smartphone-style apps to a broad range of its handsets. The question, of course, is whether it can lure developers to the platform. Samsung’s bada – which means “ocean” … Read More »

Femtocells, micro-base stations placed inside the home to improve cellular coverage, are supposed to be the answer to operators’ bandwidth constraints. They’re also a new source of revenue for carriers and the startups and large equipment-makers who are building the devices. But so far, the market … Read More »

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