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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 07, 2012
Samsung today announced that its scintillating 840 Series solid state drives (SSDs) are now available to purchase, but that's not all. To sweeten the pot, select 840 Pro SSDs come with a free copy of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed III in the...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 05, 2012
Korean electronics maker Samsung is reportedly in the midst of a "radical brand makeover," one that will give the company a brand new look. Details are mostly vague, though it will all become clear at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which is when and where Samsung is...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 03, 2012
Korean smartphone maker Samsung announced that it has sold more than 30 million Galaxy S III devices around the globe to date. Samsung's Polish division posted the announcement on Twitter and Facebook, along with a pic of what looks to be staff members celebrating the achievement, but has...
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Jennifer Johnson - Fri, Nov 02, 2012
Sprint will begin offering its first 4G LTE tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 on November 11. The tablet will sell for $549.99. The Galaxy Tab 2 features Android 4.0 as well as a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 10.1-inch touchscreen. You'll find a 3 megapixel rear-facing camera on the...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Nov 01, 2012
Few remember that Samsung even bothered to put out a Galaxy S III Mini earlier in the year, but this particular handset sure encroaches on that same, familiar territory. It's the new Galaxy Premiere, a 4.65" HD Super AMOLED device with an...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Oct 31, 2012
Samsung announced two new SSDs, the SM843 and the SM1625, which are designed for high-performance applications in enterprise storage systems and servers. The drives represent an effort on Samsung’s part to lead the way in terms of...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Oct 29, 2012
Apple is understandably proud of moving 17 million iPhones in its latest quarter, but Samsung has some even more gaudy numbers. The electronics giant just released its Q3 2012 earnings, and they're huge. Really huge. The company posted...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Oct 29, 2012
If a giant, 5.5" phone sounds like the ideal device for you, Sprint's now offering the Galaxy Note II. The second major iteration of the 'phablet' is now available on The Now Network, for a pricey $300 on a 2-year agreement. That's the going rate for supersized phones with LTE, but still --...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Oct 28, 2012
Samsung's silicon advancements have been pretty impressive as of late, and it's keeping that alive with a new $250 Exynos 5-based Arndale community board for app developers. It's based on the ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor and the...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 24, 2012
The original Samsung Galaxy Note was a bit of an oddity. When it was first introduced, many reviewers, analysts, and industry pundits scoffed at the device’s relatively large form factor. The 5.3” screen on the original Note looked simply gargantuan next to anything else available on the market at the time, leading many folks to...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 24, 2012
The original Samsung Galaxy Note was a bit of an oddity in the smartphone market. When it was first introduced, many reviewers, analysts, and industry pundits scoffed at the device’s relatively large form factor. The 5.3” screen on the original Note looked simply gargantuan next to anything else available on the market at...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Oct 24, 2012
When we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S III back in June, we had a chance to look at a cool use of NFC technology using Samsung's TecTile programmable NFC stickers and the corresponding TecTile Android app. Now, Samsung is updating the TecTile application to version 3.0. This new version is...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Oct 24, 2012
If a "normal" smartphone just feels too small, AT&T will soon be offering the Galaxy Note II. The second iteration of Samsung's famed phablet is upon us, with AT&T customers able to pre-order it starting on October 25th. The price...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Oct 23, 2012
Samsung's new ARM-based Chromebook is said to be "for everyone." Perhaps it's the $249 price point, or perhaps it's the 100GB of Google Drive storage that's included. Or, maybe it's a combination of excellent hardware, a slick design and a price that's just $50 more than a Nexus 7 tablet...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Oct 22, 2012
You may have noticed that Apple and Samsung don’t get along anymore. At all. There was a time when the two companies actually did brisk business together, even as they competed in the market, but now that has Apple successfully sued Samsung for over a billion dollars and blocked some its...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Oct 19, 2012
There's a new sub-$250 notebook in town, and it doesn't run Android nor Windows. It's the "new Chromebook," built by Samsung and ushered into existence by Google. While Chrome OS has existed on machines in the past, never before has a...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Oct 18, 2012
Apple may have won its case against Samsung in the US this past August, but in the UK, things haven't proven to be so successful. In the US case, which took much of Samsung's portfolio into question, it was deemed that the company did in...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 17, 2012
Samsung's Galaxy S III is widely considered to be the best Android smartphone currently available, if not the best smartphone regardless of platform (iPhone 4S and 5 owners might have something to say about that), and so it almost seems...
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Seth Colaner - Tue, Oct 16, 2012
Samsung is the latest OEM to out its lineup of Windows 8 machines, and it certainly seems as though the big trend is toward laptop/tablet hybrids. According to VentureBeat, Samsung is calling its hybrid models “Smart PCs”, and...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Oct 15, 2012
The latest news on the growing Apple/Samsung split confirms that the two companies are pulling away from each other. Reports now indicate that the A6, Apple's first custom CPU design, was built entirely without input from Samsung. Up to this point, the two manufacturers have been vital...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Oct 14, 2012
Extrapolate from this what you will, but when it comes to browsing the Web, Apple's iPhone 5 device is generating more traffic than Samsung's Galaxy S III, according to data collected by Chitika Insights. The research firm says it conducted a "user agent analysis on millions of mobile ad...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Oct 13, 2012
It's been proven time and time again that Apple and Samsung are not on the best of terms, but despite that, Apple has still relied on Samsung for certain production up to this point. That Apple A6 under the hood of the latest...
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