Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt has downplayed the rumour about its strained relationship with Samsung. During a Q&A session at Dive into Mobile 2013, Schmidt confirmed that the relationship with Samsung is “very healthy”. He does not see the equation between the companies change and in fact applauded Samsung’s decision to go with Android that has […]
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Taiwan FTC investigating Samsung’s role in smear campaign against HTC
Samsung is under scrutiny from Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission for their alleged role in spreading malicious comments online against HTC. The Taiwanese FTC setup an inquiry last week after they received complaints that Samsung has hired students to say bad things about HTC and in return promote their upcoming Galaxy S4 device. Samsung will be […]
Samsung will deploy LTE for Three Ireland
Three Ireland – a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa has selected Samsung to deploy its LTE equipment in Ireland. As part of the agreement, Samsung will be the sole provider of LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) and LTE core infrastructure equipment, making Ireland the second country in Europe where Samsung will facilitate to roll out commercial […]
HomeSync – Samsung’s Android-based gaming console?
The success of crowd sourced campaign for OUYA proves one thing – consumers want affordable gaming on a larger screen. And while this gaming device is based on Android OS, it does not have access to Google’s Play Store. Instead the console relies on their dedicated store, which means all the games you bought over […]
Samsung releases Earnings Guidance for Q1 2013
Just like every quarter, Samsung has released earnings guidance for the recently concluded quarter. While the Q1 2013 result will be revealed in the coming weeks, Samsung has published the guidance so as to give an estimate to investors and media. According to the guidance, Samsung had consolidated sales of approx. 52 trillion won with […]