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  Samsung Electronics today announced its first quarter results which stood at 28.67 trillion won, 13 percent down from the last quarter of 2008. Thanks to an increase in equity income, its net income reached 620 billion won and operating profit at 470 billion won after last quarter’s dismal 740 billion won loss on a [...]

  Verizon has dished out an entry level slider phone from Samsung that aims to give you more bang for your buck. With $49.99 after a $50 rebate, the Trance gives a 220X176 resolution display, touch-sensitive navigation keys, 1GB internal memory that can be expanded up to 16GB with microSD cards, ICEpower speakers powered by [...]

  Looks like Samsung’s semiconductor division is in for some good time as they have announced to ramp up production of DDR3 RAMs. The sudden surge in the production is to support demand for Intel’s Xeon powered 5500 series servers which when equipped with DDR3 memory “improves the efficiency of data transactions in virtually any [...]

  There’s not much to tell but Bluetooth has added Samsung’s S8000 phone into its product directory. Acknowledgement of the certification or an imminent launch? Product Listing

  Samsung has added R503-DS05 notebook to its Ukraine laptop section. The peculiar thing about this notebook is that it runs on an AMD processor. Specs include: 15.4-inch WXGA+ screen 2.1GHz Turion X2 processor 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470 GPU DVD burner 1.3MP camera Wi-Fi Bluetooth 2.0+EDR HDMI 3 USB ports Ethernet [...]

  Samsung has unveiled Spinpoint M7 hard drives that come with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. Apart from withstanding shocks of greater magnitude, the drives are 18 percent faster than conventional 2.5-inch HDDs. It runs at 5400RPM and features 3.0Gbps SATA interface, 8MB cache, SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies and comes in capacities ranging from [...]

  Sprint is now selling Instinct’s smaller, better version for $129.99 after fulfilling all the customary obligations like mail-in rebates and signing up with a 2 year contract. The phone comes with two color options – Cobalt Metal and Touch of Copper and packs 3.2-inch touchscreen display with TouchWiz UI, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, 2 megapixel [...]

  Economy is taking its toll on everyone and to make consumers feel safe in what they are investing, companies are devising new ways to attract consumer’s attention to their products. Take Samsung for instance. They have announced Samsung Mobile Live campaign that will give hands-on experience on Samsung phones without pitching the users for [...]

  This one’s arrived fresh from the reputed Taiwanese rumor bakery. According to the sources hooked up with Digitimes, Samsung is developing a 15.6-inch RGB LED backlit notebook panel that will go with its high-end thin notebooks when its launched sometime in second half of the year. There are no other details whatsoever but the [...]

  Samsung has pulled off another industry first by bringing full disk encryption (FDE) to SSDs. The FDE solution is developed by Wave Systems and is offered on both 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs with storage sizes up to 256GB. FDE enabled SSDs automatically encrypt any information that is written onto the drive without compromising on [...]