Samsung’s TV Apps Store has reached a new milestone. The TV-specific App Store surpassed 10m app downloads in September and about 11m till date. Clocking in about 50,000 app downloads per day, the TV Apps Store consumption has doubled since the App Store’s last milestone of 5m in May. Amongst the apps, YouTube, Maps, […]
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Samsung announces first Smart TV App developed using Adobe AIR
Samsung Electronics announced the launch of the first Smart TV application using Adobe AIR at the Adobe Technology developer conference – MAX 2011. The VH1’s Flash technology based application, ‘I Love the 80’s’ Trivia’, will be made available on Samsung Smart TVs in the US this fall via the Samsung Apps marketplace. Samsung already has […]
Samsung announces Free the TV Challenge in US
Samsung America has announced the second edition of Free the TV Challenge for developers. Samsung is holding the app contest to celebrate the release of Samsung’s SDK v2.5 and also allow developers to create unique converged apps that works across a number of Samsung devices. For instance, Samsung segregates the Converged Apps categories into […]
Samsung takes top spot in the North American TV Market
New figures from market research firm, NPD are out and Samsung is still the undisputed leader of the TV market in North America. Despite facing some stiff competition, Samsung managed to capture a good 58.4 percent market share in the 3D TV market. The dominating market share is attributed to Samsung’s aggressive marketing in […]
2 million Samsung Smart TVs sold globally in 3 months
Samsung has announced that their 2011 range of Smart TVs has crossed sales of more than 2 million units. Smart TVs offer a new user interface called as Smart Hub that allows users to socially connect with their friends, browse the internet, play games etc. Samsung managed to sell these TVs in under 3 […]