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  Australian Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett announced that the hearing to decide on the iPhone 4S ban will be held sometime in March. The date will be fixed later this week. The case will be fixed for a hearing for three weeks, commencing in March, 2012, with the date to be fixed on Friday. [...]

  Samsung has created a new Near Field Communication (NFC) chip that tries to make contactless mobile payments more secure. The Secu-NFC chip SENHRN1 is integrated with an NFC controller and a secure element that stores all the sensitive information along with security keys and encryption. The secure element we’re talking about is a 760KB [...]

  Think of Caster as Chrome to Phone app but a little more advanced. Caster works with bada devices and allows easy sharing of content from PC web browser to the mobile phone. A user basically needs to download a plugin for his PC web browser and share content like a web page, images, videos [...]

  Announced at the Gamescom few months back, Samsung has introduced the Series 7 gaming notebook for consumers in South Korea. Samsung will sell two variants of 700G7A – one equipped with 3D and one without. The Sens Series 7 notebook comes with a jog dial that allows users to select different modes according to [...]

  Samsung today announced that they’ve signed a Memorandum of Understanding with KT that will allow both companies to estimate demand and supply of phones. With the introduction of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment both companies can keep a timely check on the inventories, future trends and manufacturing plans that will enable to decrease costs [...]

  Looks like Samsung wants to have the best of both worlds. If you recall, Samsung’s in-house developed Hummingbird used a PowerVR GPU and the recent Exynos 4210 uses ARM’s Mali-400. Now Imagination Technologies, makers of PowerVR has announced that the Korean giant has signed a deal with the company to license PowerVR SGX MP’s [...]

  It seems the week of the accolades for Samsung. After winning 30 CES 2012 Innovation Awards earlier this week, Samsung has announced that they’ve bagged 29 Good Design Awards. Good Design for the uninitiated, is organized by Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) that started in 1957. The award is given in appreciation of [...]

  Samsung has announced the arrival of Galaxy Note in the world’s biggest telecom market – China. At the Galaxy Note World Tour held in Shanghai, Samsung announced to sell the phone / tablet combo device in China along with other South Asian countries like Taiwan and Hong Kong. The hardware specs remain unchanged but [...]

  Better late than never I suppose. Samsung and Sprint have finally pushed the Android 2.3 update for Epic 4G. Sprint says the EI22 update for Epic 4G will be released in stages and will reach all the users within 10 days. In addition to the bump from Froyo to Gingerbread, Epic 4G will also [...]

  At the Slate PC Series 7 event in South Korea today, Samsung spilled some details on the upcoming Windows 8 tablets. According to Uhm Kyu Ho, head of sales and marketing of PC business, Samsung will launch a modified version of Series 7 device to run Windows 8 OS. The said device is expected [...]