Corning Incorporated, known for its Gorilla Glass made two announcements today with respect to Samsung. Corning has renewed its agreement with Samsung Corning Precision Materials (SCP) and the AMLCD division of Samsung Electronics (SEC) for five more years. Corning renewed its technology license agreement with SCP whereas renewed its long term supply commitment to […]
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Purported Samsung device with Flexible Display spied [Updated]
UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments, this is a flexible display prototype showcased at CES 2011. Check out the video. Few pictures of an unnamed Samsung device has been posted by a Chinese website. Although the site claims it to be of Galaxy S III, we don’t think that is the case. The […]
Report: Samsung to propose tie-up with Olympus Corp.
A new report by Japanese business daily, Mainichi claims that Samsung will propose a capital tie up with Japan’s Olympus Corp. In addition to Samsung, the report also mentions other companies like Sony, Fujifilm also want to form an alliance with the company. Samsung declined to comment on the report but the tie up […]
EU Commission opens an Antitrust investigation against Samsung
UPDATE: Samsung says they’re confident of coming clean in the EU investigation. Via Samsung has an ongoing tussle with Apple but they’ll now have to deal with the European Commission as well as they’ve opened a formal investigation against them. The EU Commission will assess whether Samsung has abused its position and breached EU […]
German court upholds Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban
Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has upheld the original decision that bars Samsung to sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 (including Galaxy Tab 8.9) in Germany. The decision today was surprisingly, not influenced by any design patent infringement. In fact, the court announced its decision on the basis of a violation of German unfair competition law. As […]