Cross-town rivals, Samsung and LG have been engaged in lawsuits for quite some time. While some complaints included serious offences like stealing technology, vandalising washing machines is what is grabbing the headlines for both the companies recently. Today, both companies have issued a joint statement saying they have ended all their ongoing disputes and lawsuits. […]
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Samsung sues LG for diminishing its brand value
Samsung Electronics has filed a lawsuit against LG Electronics alleging LG to taint the company’s brand value. Samsung filed the lawsuit in the Seoul District Court and claims LG “tarnished its corporate image” by running advertisements that were wrong. Samsung is demanding 50 billion won (US$45 million) towards damages. The advertisement feud started last year […]
South Korea to develop smartphone OS with Samsung and LG
South Korea ministry today announced that they’ll develop their own open-source smartphone OS to give local smartphone makers “competitiveness” against foreign smartphone OS makers. The details on how and what the OS will be are unknown but the Korean ministry said such a move will help manufacturers like Samsung, LG to compete against Apple’s […]
LG U+ confirms Galaxy U, launch in mid-August
LG U+, formerly known as LG Telecom has confirmed the oft-leaked Galaxy U (SHW-M130L). They’ve announced that they are training their sales rep so that they can disseminate proper info of the high-end device, scheduled to launch in mid-August (sometime next week). Some of Galaxy U’s specs have also been confirmed, like the 1GHz […]
Samsung and others form HDBaseT alliance
Samsung has entered into a cross-industry alliance that has the basic aim to simplify how we consume HD content. Samsung along with LG, Sony Pictures and Valens Semiconductor have created HDBaseT, a new standard that sends uncompressed video, audio to HDTVs over a regular Ethernet cable. The HDBaseT technology also allows for internet surfing […]