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  There’s no surprise that success of Galaxy S made Samsung a very important player in the smartphone arena. Now the company has announced that the original Galaxy S and its successor, Galaxy S II have passed a new milestone. Samsung has managed to sell over 30 million units of both Galaxy S and S [...]

  After launching the 470 Series SSDs in South Korea, Samsung is treating its home market with a better, faster SSD. Samsung has announced the 830 Series SSD for South Korea which is said to be 2.5 times faster than the predecessor. Clad in a brushed metal shell, the 830 Series SSD supports 6Gb/s SATA [...]

  Samsung Electronics’ President, Lee Jae-yong (right) will attend Steve Jobs memorial service at Standford University today. Reuters reports that Lee Jae-yong, son of Samsung’s chairman Lee Kun-hee will attend the invitation-only service and will apparently sit down with Apple’s CEO Tim Cook in a separate meeting. While the meeting with Cook is unconfirmed, the [...]

  Not the best of days if you’re a part of Samsung’s legal counsel. The court in Hague has rejected Samsung’s claim of patent infringement by Apple and thus, rejecting the appeal to ban on sales of Apple iPhone and iPad. Judge was of the opinion that Samsung’s 3G patents were a part of essential [...]

  UPDATE: Available on the Android Market as well. Link below. Samsung’s cross-platform communication service, ChatON is now available for mass consumption. The app is currently available on Android via Samsung’s own app store. ChatON, if you’re unaware is Samsung’s tool for communication across various platforms including Android, bada, iOS, BlackBerry and PC. Currently, Samsung [...]

  Well it’s official. Samsung has announced the date to unveil Galaxy Nexus. Samsung along with Google will reveal the Ice Cream Sandwich running phone at AsiaD conference on October 19. As mentioned previously, the launch in Hong Kong makes perfect sense as top executive from both Google and Samsung will be present at the [...]

  Samsung will expand its Xcover lineup with C3350 candybar phone. Unlike the last Xcover device, which was powered by Android OS, C3350 seems to run Samsung’s proprietary OS. The phone is IP67 certified that protects against shocks, dust and water (up to 1m for 30 mins) and comes with quad-band GSM support, 2.2-inch display [...]

  Samsung yesterday announced to sell modified Galaxy handsets in Netherlands but was mum on the amount of modification. However, they’ve now confirmed to us that the new handsets viz. Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Galaxy Ace will go on sale from Oct 14 i.e. tomorrow and have a new UI function for ‘photo [...]

  Samsung’s TV Apps Store has reached a new milestone. The TV-specific App Store surpassed 10m app downloads in September and about 11m till date. Clocking in about 50,000 app downloads per day, the TV Apps Store consumption has doubled since the App Store’s last milestone of 5m in May. Amongst the apps, YouTube, Maps, [...]

  UPDATE: Official statement below. The verdict of the initial Australian hearing of Apple-Samsung patent case is out and it does not look good for the Korean manufacturer. The Australian Federal Court has granted a temporary injunction against the launch and sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. The ban will make Samsung to miss [...]