Samsung Electronics has been sued by 18 U.S. Olympians because the company used their names and images without their permission on a Facebook app. The app in question is U.S. Olympic Genome Project that promises to connect Facebook users with the Team USA. The athletes claim the use of their images in the app […]
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Samsung wins Golden Peacock award for Samsung Hope Project
Samsung today confirmed that they’ve been given the Golden Peacock award for their CSR initiatives with respect to the Samsung Hope Project. Although the project is a global initiative, it reached India earlier this year with an aim to provide quality education to underprivileged children with the help of modern teaching methods and available […]
Samsung to announce Smart App Challenge 2012, $4.08m up for grabs
Samsung has confirmed that’ll announce a new Smart App Challenge for developers in May. This global challenge will invite developers to create some interesting apps for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Note range and will give away $4,080,000 to 80 winners in addition to marketing done by Samsung. Samsung will reveal more details, which we […]
Samsung announces Exynos 4 Quad
After months and months of rumors, Samsung has officially announced their first quad-core Exynos processor. The Exynos 4 Quad is built on 32nm HKMG process and is based on four Cortex A9 clocked at 1.4GHz. Compared to a 45nm dual-core Exynos, Samsung says the chip boasts double the processing power and consumes 20 percent […]
Samsung SE-218BB Optical Disc Drive supports Android tablets and Ultrabooks
Samsung has introduced a new external DVD writer, SE-218BB that is touted to be the world’s thinnest external optical disc drive. Measuring just 14mm in height, Samsung says the new ODD is 18 percent thinner and 8 percent lighter than a conventional DVD writer. However, it’s the functionality that makes it special. For tablets […]