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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 25, 2010
Samsung was busy this week pushing out a great many new notebooks, but that's not all the company has on tap. Today, they're also introducing their 50 Series LED-backlit monitors, with panels ranging from 20" to 24", the Touch of Color design scheme and a great variety when it comes to features. Samsung’s 50 Series LED backlit monitors...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 25, 2010
As the week of continual laptop launches continues, Samsung is joining Gateway, Acer and a bunch others in the field by pushing out a whole slew of new machines as well. The company's summer 2010 mobile PC lineup is aimed mostly at back-to-school, boasting multiple netbook options under three...
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Dave Altavilla and Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jun 24, 2010
Last night at the Digital Experience event in New York City, we got the chance to get some hands-on time with the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S. If you're unfamiliar with the Galaxy S, it is an Android-based smartphone, that features a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, a 4" multi-touch Super...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 23, 2010
Few things in life are more trying than to be locked into a T-Mobile contract and watch as your buddies over at Verizon, AT&T, and even Sprint gain access to swank new phones with spiffy features. That isn't to say it's all bad over on...
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Michael Santo - Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Fortune's headline trumpets that "AT&T Gets Serious About Android." Are they really, though? If you look closely at the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Captivate, AT&T's latest Android device, following up on their Aria...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Few things get us more excited than solid state drives. Fast GPUs and CPUs come close, but the instant speed increase given by installing an SSD just makes it almost magical. But one knock (aside from price) on SSDs has long been their low capacity; it's been really difficult to find SSDs with...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 15, 2010
Slim is definitely in, just ask Samsung, who has gone and introduced one of the skinniest external optical drives you're ever likely to see before the technology is supplanted by whatever storage medium the future holds. Called the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 15, 2010
When Samsung first introduced its F1 series of hard drives several years ago, the company was pushing its way through the terabyte barrier, joining a then elite club of high-capacity drive makers. Now in its fourth generation, Samsung is...
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Jennifer Johnson - Fri, Jun 11, 2010
Samsung is bringing social networking and location based services to your TV and entertainment system with the addition of Facebook and Google Maps to Samsung Apps. Samsung Apps is an HDTV-based application store that provides users with...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jun 10, 2010
They say there's a first time for everything, and that apparently applies to Samsung as well. The company best known for its hard drives and LCD monitors this week announced the SP-H03, "a self-contained personal device," as Samsung describes it, or the first pico projector the company has...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 04, 2010
You don't really have to keep a finger on the pulse of the smartphone landscape to know that ARM and Freescale are bitter rivals, and Samsung and Texas Instruments are constantly vying for similar business. So honestly, you probably...
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Ray Willington - Mon, May 31, 2010
Secondary LCD monitors are growing in popularity. Mimo Monitors seems to come out with a new version every couple of months, and more companies are beginning to create similar rivals. And Samsung, for example, is taking the product category to an entirely different platform. Most of these...
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Jennifer Johnson - Thu, May 27, 2010
Samsung announced two new notebook lines and a new netbook designed specifically for business users. The new P80 Premium series of notebooks include Intel Core i5 processors, an array of ports, a 320GB hard drive, and optional Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. The P30 Essential series of notebooks utilize...
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Ray Willington - Mon, May 24, 2010
It may not seem very significant at first glance, but this is a monumental day for Samsung Electronics. While Palm has struggled with getting WebOS to the masses, and Nokia has had to merge Maemo with Intel's Moblin just so MeeGo can have a fighting chance, Samsung is pressing forward with...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, May 12, 2010
Samsung's new ST5500/CL80 Wi-Fi enabled digital camera will now come with pre-loaded with Boingo software and three months of free Boingo service. With this offering, users will be able to connect to 125,000 Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide to share their photos and videos while on the go. With...
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Jennifer Johnson - Fri, May 07, 2010
While announcing its first-quarter results, WiMAX carrier Clearwire said that it plans to offer two dual-mode 3G/4G handsets by the end of this year. One of the new handsets will be made by Samsung, while the other will be made by HTC. Clearwire didn't offer up a lot of details concerning the...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, May 03, 2010
Fans of James Cameron's Avatar were undoubtedly thrilled with the movie's appearance on DVD and Blu-ray last week, but cat lovers who purchased the HD version of the film have been heared yowling discontentedly in the bushes. In a deeply...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Apr 25, 2010
It's a chicken-before-the-egg type of scenario. Peripheral companies don't want to support USB 3.0 before USB 3.0 is widely adopted, and PC makers don't want to jump on the USB 3.0 bandwagon before there are a suitable amount of USB 3.0 accessories on the market. Thankfully, Samsung is taking...
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Joel Hruska - Fri, Apr 23, 2010
Heard the latest? The stock world is abuzz over the rumor that Apple might purchase ARM Semiconductor. The rumor apparently began in London and was fueled by the combination of Apple's recent spectacular quarter and the fact that English accents sound so darn sophisticated. The train of logic...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Apr 18, 2010
Hard drive capacities keep getting larger, processors keep getting faster, and memory process keep getting smaller. These are all facts of life in the consumer electronics industry, and while talking about nanometers doesn't interest...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Apr 16, 2010
Lately, it feels like the good, old, reliable hard disk drive (HDD) doesn't get any respect. When it comes to storage, Solid State Drives (SSDs) are getting all the attention these days--and it's no wonder, considering the speed, durability, low-power, and silent-running attributes of current...
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Daniel A. Begun - Fri, Apr 16, 2010
Lately, it feels like the good, old, reliable hard disk drive (HDD) doesn't get any respect. When it comes to storage, Solid State Drives (SSDs) are getting all the attention these days--and it's no wonder, considering the speed, durability, low-power, and silent-running attributes of current...
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