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RSS samsung koreaThe cost of avoiding a 3G stink: 10,000 tons of garlic
News Nokia and Motorola had better watch out: South Korea's Samsung Electronics is after the number one spot in the mobile handset market and will do just about anything to make it happen. For Samsung it was a price worth paying to keep the trade route... [01 Jun 2001]
WiBro experiment opens its doors to the public
News Korea Telecom will act as network provider, using kit from Samsung including clamshell handsets and laptop cards. Around 12,000 Koreans have already applied to take part in the test, Samsung said. According to Samsung, WiBro users can expect... [05 Apr 2006]
Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment
News South Korea's most powerful businessman said yesterday that he would step down after 20 years at the head of the giant Samsung Group, following his indictment last week for tax evasion and breach of trust. [22 Apr 2008]
IT firms shut out spying camera phones
News Samsung and LG Electronics have both barred employees from using camera phones on their research and manufacturing facilities in Korea to protect against industrial espionage and intellectual property theft, [08 Jul 2003]
3G in Korea
White Paper Hung Song, vice president, Wireless Systems International Business Management Group, South Korea, and John Csapo, vice president, STA-Wireless System Laboratory, both from Samsung, joined host Perry LaForge, executive director, CDMA Development... [09 Nov 2006]
Samsung shows strength as chip market recuperates
News As South Korea struggles to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades, semiconductor giant Samsung Electronics is shrugging off the gloom. If the decline in South Korea's Won has hurt the local economy, it has proved a boon to exporters... [01 Dec 1998]
Nokia trims operations in Korea
News The colour display mobile phone market in Korea is currently dominated by Samsung (55 per cent), LG (23.1 per cent) and US-based Motorola, although it is chasing the others with 7.3 per cent market share. [14 Jan 2003]
EMC and Samsung form storage tag team
News My sales mission is to reach $17m in storage products," Kim Han-Su, vice president of Samsung's electronics computer and internet systems division, said in Seoul, South Korea. Storage giant EMC this week unfurled the details behind its deal to work... [07 Jun 2004]
Nokia loses ground on CDMA
News The world's leading supplier of CDMA phones remains South Korea-based electronics maker Samsung Electronics, which finished the first quarter of 2003 with 29 percent, according to Strategy Analytics. Although major handset makers Samsung, Motorola... [22 May 2003]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Kun-Hee Lee
News Last year Kun-Hee Lee, chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, earned a spot in the top 10 of the Agenda Setters for running a company that's "head and shoulders above everyone else", including IBM, Microsoft, Philips, Siemens and Vodafone... [12 Sep 2006]
'3G' hits the streets... of Seoul
News Local manufacturer Samsung has produced the first multimedia handset to take advantage of the increased network capacity. And according to Eli Reifman, CEO of Emblaze Systems - which provides the video chipset inside the Samsung phone - this... [30 May 2001]
Novices, politicians and the page 3 'stunner'...
Comment South Korean outfit Samsung has bought £2.1m worth of garlic in an attempt to be number one in the East Asian mobile handset market. Samsung's move came following a plea from the South Korean government, which was trying to avoid the repetition of... [08 Jun 2001]
Samsung flashes its 4G
News The electronics giant says it will demo 4G at the Samsung 4G Forum in Jeju Island in South Korea. Samsung is claiming to have cracked 4G, while most of the mobile industry couldn't tell you what it is yet. [31 Aug 2006]
Samsung promises to overtake Nokia by 2010
News Samsung has vowed to beat Nokia in the global mobile phone market by 2010. Samsung Electronics will focus on high-end mobiles with features like PDAs and GPS systems, and include GSM phones. Second-place market competitor Motorola's share has... [17 Nov 2003]
Samsung does WiMax PC-cum-phone-cum-media player
News The Samsung WiMax device will be available in its home territory of South Korea in the first half of 2007. Samsung has jumped on the WiMax and convergence bandwagons with the announcement of a phone-cum-media-player-cum-mini-PC that's compatible... [08 Nov 2006]
