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  Seagate announced that they’ve completed the acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive business (HDD). The acquisition was announced in April and as per the terms of the agreement, Seagate will acquire Samsung’s assets and infrastructure like M8 production line of 2.5-inch HDDs, senior manager and design-engineering employees from the Korea facility and more. Additionally, Seagate [...]

  Samsung has joined hands with Panasonic, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba to develop a new content protection technology for flash memory and SD cards and other storage devices. The initiative known as Next Generation Secure Memory will license and promote security solution which will protect HD-capable content that can be used in tablets, smartphones, TV [...]

  White is the color of the season and Samsung has painted its LTE-equipped Galaxy Note in white as well. The newly colored Galaxy Note will be available in South Korea, which has sold in excess of 60,000 units since its launch. Needless to say, the specs remain unchanged, which means we’re looking at a [...]

  UPDATE: Looks like there’s a decent amount of interest for free games and for those who cannot get the games can try this. This has not been verified but it should work (let us know in the comments). – Download Samsung Apps APK from here (I9100 version) and install on your device. – Download [...]

  Looks like the bada 2.0 update will be available in next year, at least to bada users in Turkey. According to a post by Samsung Turkey on its Facebook page, the new bada OS will be available to Turkey Wave I, Wave II, Wave 723, Wave 578 and Wave 575 users in 2012, which [...]

  Google’s treating its employees with a free Android handset this Christmas season. Google London and Zurich office employees have received the newly announced Galaxy Nexus as their Christmas Gift. If that was not enough to make us non-Googlers envious, the Galaxy Nexus handset which the employees will receive will bear a special battery door [...]

  Samsung has updated the S Pen SDK that takes advantage of the S Pen in the Galaxy Note. The new v1.5 comes with improved features like zoom that gives 50x magnification; panning which will allow to change X,Y coordinates; background support to give a personal touch to the letters or memos; and support for [...]

  Samsung has expanded its patent infringement claims against Apple in Germany. The Korean company has added four new complaints related to standards and utility patents which also includes the use of emoticons. The court will make these claims separate from the lawsuit filed in April. Meanwhile, Samsung has also decided to not require a [...]

  Google has treated Nexus S users with a firmware update of Ice Cream Sandwich OS (Android 4.0). The second Nexus phone can now be upgraded from Gingerbread OS (Android 2.3) to Ice Cream Sandwich, making it at par with the new Galaxy Nexus phone. It’s an OTA update but users can grab the update.zip [...]

  Samsung has announced the availability of its small Android player – Galaxy S WiFi 3.6 which was first shown at the IFA in September. This “Multimedia Internet Device (MID)” is now available in Germany for 159 euros that gives the goodness of Android OS at an affordable price. Galaxy S WiFi 3.6 is equipped [...]