mHealthSummit2012:Samsung provides specialized Galaxy S® II smartphone for Preventice remote patient monitoring system.

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Samsung provides specialized Galaxy S® II smartphone for Preventice remote patient monitoring system.

Ecosystem of technology companies connected to the BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring SystemTM continues to attract industry leaders.

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile)1 and PreventiceTM, a leading developer of mobile health solutions and remote monitoring systems, announced today that Samsung will provide mobile

phones for the new BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System (RMS)TM from Preventice. Preventice recently announced its receipt of 510(k) clearance from the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the BodyGuardian RMS, allowing Preventice to market and sell BodyGuardian to hospitals and clinics for use in detecting and monitoring non-lethal cardiac arrhythmias for ambulatory patients.

Samsung Mobile, one of the world’s largest providers of telecommunications products and technologies, has made a commitment to collaborating with health technology companies in an effort to develop for its leading consumer devices new use cases that ultimately improve the quality of patients’ lives.

“Samsung Mobile is thrilled to join forces with Preventice on its BodyGuardian system, freeing patients from expensive and time-consuming office visits,” said Timothy K.

Wagner, vice president and general manager, Samsung Mobile. “With a strong portfolio  of secure, dependable, and feature-rich smartphones and tablets, Samsung Mobile is increasingly playing a key role in delivering innovative solutions within the health care industry and beyond.”

The BodyGuardian System will enable physicians to monitor key biometrics in patients with cardiac arrhythmias outside of the clinical setting, allowing patients go about their daily lives while remaining connected to their physicians. According to Preventice, Samsung Mobile will customize the Galaxy S II smartphone for use in the BodyGuardian RMS by creating a dedicated mobile environment that will ensure a

secure, reliable wireless connection for the transmission of biometric data. Patient data is captured using a small wearable sensor and delivered via Bluetooth communication to a dedicated Galaxy S II smartphone. 

The Galaxy S II then transmits the physiological data via cellular network to the Preventice Care Platform in the cloud.

Physicians and/or monitoring centers then access the data via a web or tablet-based portal.

“Remote patient monitoring will significantly change the way patients with heart disease and a variety of other chronic conditions experience the health care system, but only if we’re able to provide solutions that meet the strictest of standards for patient protection and clinical performance,” said Jon Otterstatter, co-founder, president and CEO of Preventice. “By collaborating with Samsung, we are able to create a dedicated mobile

environment that brings sophisticated, secure and reliable, remote patient monitoring to patients where they live, work and play.”

The potential for remote patient monitoring to reduce patient costs and influence care delivery is contributing to rapid growth in the use of wireless monitoring, which is expected to continue in the coming years. In fact, recent research from Kalorama shows that the U.S. market for advanced patient monitoring systems has grown from $3.9 billion in 2007, to $8.9 billion in 2011. The market is expected to reach $20.9 billion by

2016, according to this same study.

1 Samsung Mobile is the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States based upon reported shipment

data, according to Strategy Analytics, North America Handset Vendor Marketshare, Q3 2012.

Samsung and Galaxy S are trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Android is a trademark of

Google Inc. Other company names, product names and marks mentioned herein are property of their

respective owners and may be trademarks or registered trademarks.

About Samsung Telecommunications America

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, (Samsung Mobile) a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung

Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and

other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit

www.samsung.com.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and

digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing

approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate

organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications,

comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT

Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LED.

Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social

criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world’s most sustainable technology company in the 2011

Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

About Preventice

Preventice, a leading developer of mobile health solutions and remote monitoring systems, aims to

engage patients with their care plans and close the patient engagement gap⎯the half trillion dollar cost

created by patients failing to follow individual care plans. Technology from Preventice creates a

continuous connection and exchange of data between health care providers, life science companies and

patients. Current applications from Preventice address high-cost and chronic conditions and health

management opportunities, including prescription medication management, cardiac care, sleep apnea,

diabetes management, and migraine headaches. Preventice is headquartered in Minneapolis, with offices

in Rochester, Minn., and Fargo, N.D. For more information, visit www.preventice.com.

For more information contact:

Colleen Kulhanek
+1-651-307-9486
ckulhanek@preventice.com
Preventice
Barbara Tabor, APR
+1-651-230-9192
barbaratabor@comcast.net
Tabor Communications Consulting for Preventice
Lesli Benefield
214-414-3324
lbenefield@mww.com
MWW for Samsung Mobile

Samsung Galaxy Note II TV Commercial - Art Show.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II TV Commercial - Art Show.

Samsung says:

With innovative features like Air View and Idea Sketch, you can visualize your ideas while on the move, and be more productive at the same time.

Meet the new Samsung GALAXY Note II, which enables unique experiences in personalized and expressive content creation, making it the ultimate smartphone for on-the-go creativity.

For more information: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note2

1H 2013: Samsung Group Plans to Mass Produce Flexible Mobile-Device Screens.

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Samsung Group Plans to Mass Produce Flexible Mobile-Device Screens.

For several years, Samsung has been flirting with the idea of ​​incorporating flexible displays in its line of mobile phones, but so far it was only experimental prototypes that could be seen in technology fairs.

According to the North American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the South Korean company is getting ready to take the next step to begin mass production of this type of display for their smartphones.

The displays use OLED technology already present in other equipment produced by the company. Unlike conventional screens, which are made of glass, are made of flexible plastic, which will provide the devices that use a shock resistance and falls never before seen in a mobile phone.

According to the publication, the screens will be ready in the first half of 2013, although there is still no assurance that they will be available commercially in a particular product.

However, some specialists believe that this technology will likely be used in the successor of Galaxy SIII, one of the high-end smartphone market popular.

In addition, the novelty come at the right time, since at present the market is saturated with products that have similar characteristics, deducted a flexible screen phone with Samsung would give the impetus to win the battle against Apple and its iPhone .

Source: WSJ

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China: Dual SIM Samsung Galaxy SIII spotted.

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China: Dual SIM Samsung Galaxy SIII spotted.

Featuring model number Samsung SCH-i939D, the device will provide support for GSM and CDMA SIM cards (one of each kind), while featuring the same appearance and specs as the original Galaxy S III. 

Thus, those who choose to purchase the new mobile phone will be able to enjoy the same 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD touchscreen display on its front, along with the quad-core 1.4GHz Exynos 4412 processor packed inside.

Furthermore, the dual-SIM flavor of Galaxy S III will include 1GB of RAM when launched in China, and will be powered by Google’s Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean operating system. 

On the back, the new smartphone model will pack an 8-megapixel photo snapper with flash and support for full HD video recording, complemented by a 1.9MP camera on the front, great for making video calls while on the go. 

The new device is expected to become available for purchase in the local markets sometime in December, yet no specific info on its price tag has been provided as of yet. 

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Q3 2012: Apple holds first position but drops to a 50,4% tablet market share.

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Q3 2012: Apple holds first position but drops to a 50,4%  tablet market share.

Worldwide tablet shipments totaled 27.8 million units in the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. The tablet market grew 49.5% year over year in 3Q12 and 6.7% over the second quarter of 2012. Android shipments, led by Samsung and Amazon, surged during the quarter, at the expense of Apple, which saw its share slip notably during the quarter.

"After a very strong second quarter, Apple saw growth slow as both consumer and commercial (including education) shipments declined, and rumors of a forthcoming iPad mini began to heat up," said Tom Mainelli, research director, Tablets at IDC.

 "We believe a sizeable percentage of consumers interested in buying an Apple tablet sat out the third quarter in anticipation of an announcement about the new iPad mini. Now that the new mini, and a fourth-generation full-sized iPad, are both shipping we expect Apple to have a very good quarter. However, we believe the mini's relatively high $329 starting price leaves plenty of room for Android vendors to build upon the success they achieved in the third quarter."

Apple's slowdown put a sizeable dent in the company's commanding worldwide market tablet share, which slipped from 65.5% in 2Q12 to 50.4% in 3Q12. The remaining top five tablet vendors all gained share during the quarter as a result. Most notable was the impressive quarter turned out by Samsung—driven by its ever-growing portfolio of tablets. Samsung shipped 5.1 million tablets worldwide in 3Q12, up 115.0% from 2Q12; that's an increase of 325.0% from 3Q11, when it shipped 1.2 million tablets.

The top 5 was rounded out by Amazon, ASUS, and Lenovo; with all three vendors experiencing sequential growth over 2Q12 while Lenovo and ASUS also saw solid year-over-year growth. Amazon, which did not have product in 3Q11, announced new 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD tablets late in the quarter, and began shipping the new 7-inch HD version (in addition to a refreshed version of the original 7-inch Fire) in mid-September.

This helped grow its worldwide market share from 4.8% in 2Q12 to 9.0% in 3Q12, despite only shipping in the U.S. (the company began shipping into five additional countries in 4Q12). ASUS' share growth was backed by strong shipments of its Google-branded Nexus 7 device; Lenovo's gains were driven by strong shipments in China.

"Samsung took advantage of an opportunity in the second quarter," said Ryan Reith, program manager, IDC's Mobile Device Trackers. "The company offers a wide range of tablet offerings across multiple screen sizes and colors, and that clearly resonated with more buyers this quarter. Its growth to 18.4% of worldwide market share during the quarter represents the first time a competitor has attained this level of share since the original launch of the iPad."

"Competitors are turning up the pressure on market leader Apple," Reith added. "With the recent introduction of a number of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, consumers now have a third viable tablet platform from which to choose. However, price points are critical in tablets, and Microsoft and its partners will have a tough time winning a share of consumer wallet with price points starting at $500." 

Q3 2012: Samsung dominates smartphone market. Nokia on free fall.

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Q3 2012: Samsung dominates smartphone market. Nokia on free fall.

The latest smartphone market share rankings from analyst firms make grim reading for one-time giant Nokia; a statement from Strategy Analytics today notes that Nokia has slipped outside the top three global smartphone rankings for the first time in history, while IDC goes a step further and claims the firm has exited the top five.

Data from Strategy Analytics states Samsung shipped 56.9 million smartphones worldwide in the third quarter of 2012, the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single quarter. Apple grew a healthy 57 percent annually and shipped 26.9 million smartphones worldwide for 17 percent market share, up from 14 percent recorded a year earlier. 

Samsung and Apple combined now account for over half of all smartphones shipped worldwide, up from around one-third a year ago.

Strategy Analytics says Nokia shipped 6.3 million smartphones worldwide for a 4 percent marketshare in Q3 2012, dipping from 16.8 million units and 14 percent share in Q3 2011. 

“Nokia will need to ramp up sharply its Windows Phone volumes if it wants to recapture a top-three smartphone position in the next one to two quarters,” commented Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics.

The news from IDC is even worse for Nokia. "Nokia's exit from the Top 5, where it had resided since the inception of IDC's Mobile Phone Tracker in 2004, was precipitated by the rise of Samsung and Apple globally and high-growth vendors like Huawei in China, where Nokia was the dominant player as recently as the third quarter of 2011," notes a statement.

Both analyst firms differ slightly in their calculations for overall global smartphone shipments. IDC claims the total vendor market shipped 179.7 million units in Q3 2012 compared to 123.7 million units in Q3 2011, a 45.3 percent year-over-year growth rate. Strategy Analytics estimated that global smartphone shipments grew 35 percent annually from 120.0 million units in Q3 2011 to 161.7 million in Q3 2012.

Related post: 3Q 2012: WorldWide smartphone and mobile phone market share. Samsung leading.Charts.

Netherlands: Dutch court ruled Samsung does not infringe Apple patent.

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Netherlands: Dutch court ruled Samsung does not infringe Apple patent.

A Dutch court in Amsterdam has ruled Samsung Electronics does not infringe an Apple Inc patent by using certain multi-touch techniques on some of the Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers.

Apple argued in September in the Hague court that Samsung infringed its patent on multi-touch function, which lets users use two fingers at one time on a touch screen.

"With these products Samsung does not infringe the claims that Apple has made," the court said in its ruling on Wednesday.

Apple lost a preliminary injunction on this patent in the Dutch courts last year and also lost its battle in the courts in Britain against HTC Corp, and in Germany against Samsung and Motorola Mobility, which is owned by Google.

The Dutch court acknowledged that its multi-touch patent ruling was similar to those in Britain and Germany.

Samsung said it welcomed the Dutch court's decision, while Apple declined to comment on the ruling.

The Hague has become an important court room battle ground between companies making mobile phones and tablet computers, as court actions there are considered to be cheap, speedy and efficient.

The Dutch court's ruling comes ahead of a decision in the United States from the International Trade Commission on Thursday over claims that Samsung infringed on Apple patents.

REUTERS.

2013 : SK Hynix BSI camera sensors manufacturer to boost production for 13 mpxls cameras. Samsung great customer.

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2013 : SK Hynix BSI camera sensors manufacturer to boost production for 13 mpxls cameras. Samsung great customer.

Samsung Electronics is increasing its dependence on SK hynix to provide sensors for cameras installed in its smartphones and touch-screen tablets. This also means that Japan’s Sony is at risk of losing one of its biggest customers.

Samsung’s partnership with SK hynix is interesting because the two companies are competing for the title of the world’s largest provider of computer memory chips. In the fast-moving technology scene, no friends are forever and neither are enemies. 

``As cameras in mobile devices have become essential features, we are buying more backside illuminated (BSI) sensors from SK hynix because they provide good pricing and output commitment,’’ said a Samsung official Friday. 

``The resolution in phone cameras has been improving, evidenced by lavish pixel counts. We need to hedge risks across suppliers and we are still buying billions of dollars worth of sensors from Sony. But it’s also true that we are increasing BSI sensor supplies from SK hynix significantly.’’ 

In comparison to front-side illuminated (FSI) sensors, BSI provide better picture quality for small gadgets such as mobile Internet devices. These sensors are used in some of the most advanced smartphones, such as Samsung’s Galaxy handsets and Apple’s iPhones. 

Sony has been the industry’s main provider of BSI sensors. However, handset vendors such as Samsung and Apple are increasingly concerned about Sony’s tight supplies because the smartphone sales are continuing to increase rapidly, the official said. 

Industry sources say that SK hynix has been providing Samsung with image sensors used for five-megapixel cameras, which are to be installed in Samsung’s lower-end smartphone models. Samsung buys about 45 percent of the image sensors manufactured by SK hynix.

An SK hynix official expected BSI sensors to account for a larger part of the company’s business in the future. 

``We are heavily investing to boost our presence in the market for these sensors. From the first quarter of next year, we will be mass producing sensors for eight-mega pixel cameras and from late next year for 13-megapixel cameras,’’ he said. 

2013 will be then the year for 13 mpxls cameras on the smartphones. However ASUS took the lead with the   recent announced PadFone 2 in Milan, which sports a 13 mpxls camera.

Official spokesmen from Samsung and SK hynix declined to comment on the story. 

Market analysts and fund managers say SK hynix’s focus on the BSI sensor business will help it lower its heavy dependence on the volatile and highly-cyclical memory chips business and find another cash-generator.

SK hynix is the world’s second biggest supplier of conventional DRAM memory chips, while it is the world’s third-biggest maker of flash-type memory chips. 

The revenue portion from non-memory chip business such as BSI sensors, which are a variant of logic chips, is reportedly below 5 percent.

UK: Samsung had not infringed Apple`s design rights, rules Judge.

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UK: Samsung had not infringed Apple`s design rights, rules Judge.

Among the reasons for finding that Galaxy tabs didn't infringe on the physical design patent was the fact that Samsung branding was on the front and back of its tabs and they were thinner than the iPad.

Apple said in its appeal that thinness didn't matter because consumers would expect tablets to get slimmer over time and slab-fondlers would ignore trademarks.

Judge, Sir Robin Jacob disagreed in his ruling, saying design patents were protection for what was registered at the time, not future differences. He also said that Apple quite clearly went on about the simplicity of the iPad's design and its lack of ornamentation and company names emblazoned across the product qualify as ornamentation.

The only slight respite for Apple is that it doesn't have to plaster the notice over its homepage on its website, Jacob said a link to the notice would be fine. However, the fruity firm will still have to publish the notice in font no smaller than Arial 14pt in the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, The Guardian, Moble Magazine and T3 magazine.

A spokeswoman for Samsung said it welcomed the latest ruling.

"We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple's registered design features can be found in numerous examples of prior art.

"Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims in other countries based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited."

Apple declined to comment. It can still appeal to the UK Supreme Court, otherwise the ruling applies across the European Union.

BBC and the register

Q3 2012: Samsung shipped 57.1 million smartphones, operation profit ramps up to $7.3 billion.

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Q3 2012: Samsung shipped 57.1 million smartphones, operation profit ramps up to $7.3 billion.

Samsung Electronics said Friday that it posted record operating profit of 8.1 trillion won ($7.3 billion) in the third quarter of this year on the back of robust smartphones sales. It is the fourth straight quarter of record operating profit.

The preliminary estimate for the July-September period is a 90.6 percent rise from 4.3 trillion won a year earlier and a 20.5 percent gain from the previous quarter, the company said in a regulatory filing. It is the first time a Korean company has exceeded 8 trillion won in quarterly operating profit.

In the filing to the Korea Exchange (KRX), the electronics giant also said it recorded record sales of 52 trillion won during the three-month period, up 26 percent from a year ago.

``For the first nine months of this year, Samsung has reaped 144.87 trillion won in revenue, while the combined operating profit reached 20.67 trillion won. It’s possible for Samsung to clinch 200 trillion won in revenue and 25 trillion won in operating profit for the entire year,’’ said a company spokesman.

The firm plans to announce the breakdown of its quarterly performance by business division later this month.

Samsung officials say smartphone sales have been good, while its consumer electronics and display-panel divisions also helped improve quarterly earnings and revenue.

“Our smartphone business was very impressive in the third quarter. We expect the phone-making division took up 68 percent by reporting at least 5.5 trillion out of the 8.1 trillion won quarterly operating profit,’’ said the official.

Samsung shipped 57.1 million smartphones in the third quarter, said leading local brokerage Daishin Securities. That will surpass the 50.5 million the firm shipped the previous quarter, a new high for a single vendor. 

Sales of the Galaxy S3 surpassed 20 million in the 100 days after its May debut, the firm said on Sept. 6. The company is also marketing the Galaxy Note 2, equipped with a stylus and a larger screen than the S3, after the first version sold more than 10 million. 

But the official stressed the firm’s other businesses have improved or at least secured their bottom line despite the debt-crisis in Europe and a slowdown in consumer spending in the United States and China. 

``This is a good sign for Samsung as its rivalry with Apple is expected to heat up in the fourth quarter after the release of Apple’s new iPhone,’’ said the official. 

Samsung’s consumer electronics unit, which mainly handles its television business, reported some 700 billion won in operating profit in the last quarter thanks to the rising popularity of high-end TVs in Samsung’s strategic business markets of Europe, North America and China.

Samsung’s semiconductor division, which is a traditional cash cow, is seen to create some 1 trillion won operating profit during the July-September period helped by an increased shipment of mobile application processors for use in smartphones and tablets and flash-type memory chips.

But executives admit they are nervous about the company’s dependency on the booming smartphone business.

The profit contribution from its phone-making business was between 20 and 30 percent before smartphones came out. But it was 73 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to Samsung.

``This is a new challenge for us. We are asked to find the next smartphone to diversify our business portfolio and lower the heavy dependency on that business,’’ said a Samsung executive by telephone.

According to a recent study by market research firm Strategy Analytics (SA), the demand for smartphones priced over $300 will lower to 30 percent next year from this year’s estimated 39 percent, meaning Samsung will suffer from a possible decline in average selling price (ASP) _ a barometer to gauge profitability.

Samsung and Apple are dominating global demand for smartphones. But the rapid rise of China’s budget smartphone manufacturers including ZTE are posing another threat to Samsung and urging its top decision makers to develop other businesses for corporate sustainability.

``I can say today’s smartphone boom is just like a carbonated drink. I mean smartphones don’t need huge investment, unlike memory chips, and could be a short passing phase,’’ said another Samsung official.  

Apple offered to sign a cross-licensing deal over patents, Samsung said it is unacceptable.

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Apple offered to sign a cross-licensing deal over patents, Samsung said it is unacceptable.

Apple has proposed a cross-licensing contract to Samsung Electronics, an official said Thursday.

``Apple offered to sign a cross-licensing deal over patents; but its requests were unacceptable,’’ the senior Samsung official said.

Apple’s intellectual-property licensing director Boris Teskler, had outlined a deal to his counterpart at Samsung _ Kim Seong-woo _ in a three-page letter that was revealed this week after U.S. Judge Lucy H. Koh rejected the firms’ request to keep the documents sealed.

``Apple is willing to license its declared-essential patents to Samsung on license terms that rely on the price of baseband chips on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalties basis. Apple estimates that this approach, which implements the true meaning of and requirements imposed by FRAND, will result in a $0.33 per unit in royalties for Apple patents,’’ Apple said in a letter to Judge Koh. 

``I don’t doubt that Apple would have liked Samsung to accept its offer and Apple’s proposed per-unit amount may seem low,’’ Florian Mueller, a German-based patent expert, wrote on his popular FossPatents blog.

``By submitting the classified letters to Judge Koh, Apple was intending to appeal to the presiding judge that its attempts to sign a peace treaty with Samsung vaporized due to Samsung’s unwillingness to accept the offer,’’ said another Samsung official.

Amid the deepening legal feud, the Korean firm has been raising its brand awareness in the global market. According to a study by InterBrand, a major consultancy in branding, Samsung’s brand value was estimated at $32.9 billion, ranking it ninth in terms of corporate awareness worldwide.

``For Samsung has nothing to lose in its fight with Apple,’’ a source said. Last year, Samsung’s brand awareness was 17th.

``Samsung’s anti-Apple campaign is so far paying off. It is now the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer and is rolling out more software- and hardware-improved devices as the fight is a good excuse to further encourage designers and technicians,’’ said the source.

Meanwhile, Samsung has officially asked that the ruling in August against it that awarded Apple $1.05 billion be thrown out as jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose his previous ``legal problems’’ with a company that Samsung has a close partnership with.

According to Samsung, the controversial foreman didn’t tell Judge Koh that he had filed bankruptcy in 1993 and had been sued by his former employer, Seagate Technology. 

2013: Samsung working in a 3GB RAM and buttonless device.

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2013: Samsung working in a 3GB RAM and buttonless device.

Samsung is working in a new device with more power , 3GB of RAM . Maybe a new feature could need such power.

Also is making a transition to go with smartphones  buttonless. According to sammobile source its gigabytes. The stickers are only for internal usage.

This device could come live in 2013.

Source: sammobile

Samsung to hire US talents with Masters and Doctoral degrees.

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Samsung to hire US talents with Masters and Doctoral degrees.

Samsung Electronics wants to increase its global talent pool by hiring graduates with master’s or doctoral degrees from prestigious U.S. universities.

The world’s largest electronics maker said Wednesday that it is looking to hire those with doctorate degrees in science and engineering or those who expect to be awarded them by the end of the year.

It will also look to those with MBAs and pick interns from those still in college. Doctorate candidates must have a degree in electoral engineering, computer engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, medical engineering and material engineering.

MBA applicants must have two years work experience in companies and have a degree in marketing, management development, product strategy and business strategy.

The company will take applicants until October 16. It didn’t disclose how many they would pick.

Samsung started employing those with postgraduate degrees from the United States in 2000. The firm earns over 80 percent of its revenue abroad, with North America being one of the most important portions, said a Samsung spokesman. The company plans to continuously gather talented individuals who demonstrate an understanding of local sentiment to further boost its business there.

The United States is home to many of Samsung’s competitors and clients in the information technology industry. The Suwon-based firm has been increasing its market share in America in various areas, especially smartphones. It also has a chip factory in Texas.

Those selected will start their internship next summer and start working full time in 2014 at the company’s office in Korea.

Other Samsung Group affiliates such as Samsung Display and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology are also looking for people with postgraduate degrees. The display maker will take applications from holders of eight different masters or doctorate degrees in science and engineering until Monday. The group’s research leg will hire until October 15 from six different study areas with the same academic standards.                          

Samsung to spread Music Hub pre-installed in a bunch of other Samsung devices.

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Samsung to spread Music Hub pre-installed in a bunch of other Samsung devices.

"One of the great advantages we have over our rivals is that Music Hub is pre-installed in our flagship product and will be available later in a bunch of other Samsung devices," said Kang, who developed the Hangul 2000 software, a Korean equivalent of Microsoft's Word processor, and was poached from mobile operator KT Corp in 2010.

Music Hub, available on Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphones in the United States and several European markets, combines all the key available music service options on a single platform - offering paid digital downloads like iTunes, a personalized radio service like Pandora, music upload to cloud like iTunes Match and Cloud Player. Users can access a catalogue of over 19 million songs - including the Korean hit 'Gangnam Style' that has taken the pop world by storm and topped iTune's download charts - and stream seamlessly to mobile devices. Apple says its iTunes Store has more than 28 million songs.

"Amazon, Google and Apple should really take note of Music Hub's radio service," Billboard said recently. "Whether or not the service is good, great or equal to something like Pandora really isn't the point. What's important is that Samsung has put the most mainstream of music products (radio) with less mainstream music products (downloads, cloud storage)," it said.

The toughest challenge is to turn around consumer perception that Samsung is only good at hardware, and to add killer apps to bind consumers to their Samsung devices.

"Pre-installing Music Hub on the Galaxy is powerful, but not enough," said Kang, adding there be more aggressive promotions, including month-long free trials and give-away albums.

That will put the squeeze more firmly on Pandora, Spotify and other online music firms that lose money as they depend on paid subscriptions and advertising but have no hardware to sell.

"We have an internal target to break even in software. But, in general, selling content won't make much of a contribution to the bottom line. We see other new business opportunities associated with content," Kang said.

Samsung plans to have Music Hub working on a range of consumer devices - from smartphones to Internet-enabled TVs and fridges - and is likely to ultimately want to monetize it by hooking up with an ad platform.

"We're preparing new services for launch early next year. With these offerings, people will start to think Samsung is good in software, too," said Kang, declining to elaborate on those launches.

REUTERS.

Samsung rolling out Jelly Bean 4.1.1 to Europeans Galaxy SIII

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Samsung has started to roll out slowly the Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1 update to the Galaxy SIII for Europeans.

The find was made by xdadevelopers on a  Galaxy SIII from Poland.

Source: xdadevelopers

All smartphones brands with NFC differentiate their products, where iPhone 5 lacks.

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All smartphones brands with NFC differentiate their products, where iPhone 5 lacks.

Although Apple's iPhone 5 is expected to enjoy strong sales, the lack of NFC (near field communication) functionality in the latest iPhone model will allow rival brands to differentiate their products and to become priority partners for launching NFC-enabled applications and services in cooperation with financial and telecom service companies, according to industry sources.

Most industry watchers believe that the reason Apple rolled out the iPhone 5 without built-in NFC functionality is that Apple aims to promote its in-house developed Passbook technology, which has already integrated a number of functionalities, including the processing of boarding passes, membership cards, tickets, value-stored cards, and various kinds of coupons, but not yet credit and debit cards.

Since a number of smartphone platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Bada as well as the forthcoming Windows Phone 8, all support NFC technology, financial firms, telecom carriers and advertisement agencies, among others, are likely to tie up with non-iPhone vendors to launch NFC-enabled services, said the sources.

Samsung Electronics has won the largest number of NFC-related cooperation projects in Europe and Asia, while RIM, HTC, LG Electronics and Nokia have also engaged in a number of cases, revealed the sources, noting that RIM has led rivals in establishing ties with the business sector for NFC applications.

HTC has recently launched three NFC-enabled models, the HTC Desire C, One XC and One X (16G-version), in cooperation with China Merchants Bank, supporting electronic wallet functionality launched by China UnionPay as well as payment systems of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the sources commented.

Samsung and others OEM`s to boost Europe sales, thanks to iPhone 5 LTE limitations.

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Samsung and others OEM`s to boost sales in Europe, thanks to the  iPhone 5 LTE limitations.

The European GSM model of the iPhone 5 supports LTE in the 850 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2.1 GHz bands. Those bands can be used by relatively few operators in Europe, including EE in the UK and Deutsche Telekom in Germany. Vodafone and Telefónica will be restricted to offering the latest Apple smartphone with access to their slower 3G services.

This iPhone 5's European LTE limitations will "push Vodafone and many other European operators harder into the arms of Samsung," especially as the South Korean company's popular Galaxy S line of phones includes an LTE version that is compatible with their networks, Robin Bienenstock, a London-based analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, told Bloomberg.

The LTE limitations could also boost the sales of Nokia and HTC, which have each recently unveiled new high-end and mid-range smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 software.

In an attempt to sidestep the issue, Telefónica's O2 UK said it plans to offer iPhone customers with a long-term contract the chance to upgrade to an LTE handset once the operator's own LTE service is launched. A company spokesman told Bloomberg that the operator will offer 10 per cent towards buying out the old contract and will pay the taxes.

Vodafone and Telefónica already offer LTE smartphones from Samsung, LG and HTC that can access their LTE networks using frequencies other than the 1800 MHz band.

However, Bienenstock told Bloomberg: "The question for operators now becomes in the near term--how sticky is Apple's software versus the better speeds of the Samsung Galaxy's, and how much subsidy will be put behind this?"

So, some of Europe's leading operators will likely offer cheaper and more varied alternatives to Apple's new iPhone 5 due to its limited support for European LTE frequencies.

Samsung Begins Mass Producing Industry’s Highest Density (128GB) Embedded NAND Storage.

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Samsung Begins Mass Producing Industry’s Highest Density (128GB) Embedded NAND Storage.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology,  announced that it has begun volume production of 128-gigabyte (GB) embedded memory for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. 

Samsung started producing the new128GB eMMC (embedded multimedia card) Pro Class 1500 in late August, which is only one month after it started delivering eMMC Pro products in 16-, 32- and 64-GB densities, rapidly completing the industry's widest line-up of eMMC products.

"By doubling the highest density of its previous eMMC products, Samsung expects to contribute significantly to a timely release of leading-edge mobile devices," said Wanhoon Hong, executive vice president, Memory Sales & Marketing, Samsung Electronics. "The higher data storage and faster data transmission, will bring a range of benefits to users that compare to those of ultra-slim notebook PCs." 

With 128GB of the new embedded memory storage, mobile handsets and tablet PCs can store up to 15 full HD, 8GB-equivalent video files. Also, the new eMMC fits into an extremely slim 12x16mm FBGA package that nicely accommodates today's sleeker mobile designs. In addition, the new eMMC provides the industry's highest density and highest performance level for an embedded memory chip. 

Samsung's eMMC Pro cards read data sequentially at up to 140 megabytes per second (MB/s) and write it at up to 50MB/s, which is five times faster than Class-10 rated external memory cards. For random reading and writing, it can process up to 3500/1500 IOPS (inputs and outputs per second, respectively)*. 

The ultra high-speed storage device uses Samsung's 64-gigabit (Gb) NAND memory with a toggle DDR 2.0 interface based on the company's latest 20 nanometer class** process technology. The new eMMC's fully managed NAND comes with its own high performance controller and intelligent flash-management firmware. 

The Samsung eMMC Pro Class 1500 supports the JEDEC eMMC v4.5 specification that standardizes the most advanced features to improve performance, efficiency, security and reliability. In being quick to mass produce the industry's most extensive eMMC v4.5 product line-up, Samsung anticipates that the proportion of premium NAND flash in the mobile market will grow even faster.

For more information about Samsung memory, visit 

www.samsungsemi.com or www.samsung.com/memory

* Editor's Note 1: Based on Samsung lab results. Results can vary depending upon test conditions, systems architecture and software.

** Editors' Note 2: 20nm-class means a process technology node somewhere between 20 and 29 nanometers.

Apple goes after Google`s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

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Apple goes after Google`s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Apple said it plans to extend its claims of infringement to include Samsung products released since the last case management conference in May. Having evaluated the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and the OS used in it, Android 4.1, Apple said it believes both infringe on the patents at issue, and intends to amend its suit accordingly.

Samsung Electronics intends to drag the iPhone 5 into an ongoing patent lawsuit with Apple, according to documents filed with a U.S. court.

The companies revealed their plans in a joint case management conference statement filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, on Wednesday.

How Google is going to react to Apple`s claim against Samsung use of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, remains to be seen.

Source: MacWorld

Samsung you should try webOS Open source with thousands of HP(Palm) patents.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs. Samsung you should try webOS Open source with thousands of HP(Palm) patents. At this time Apple wants Samsung against the wall, at least in the USA, and went this last Friday with all the caballeria (cavalry) asking the US Court in California to ban the most recent Samsung mobile devices Galaxy S III, Verizon Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note, and Galaxy Note 10.1. Apple thinks they own all the features you can do with the multitouch way to perform any mobile in anyway. But there are a lot of Palm Inc patents now owned by HP including webOS patents, that Samsung and all OEM`s should check them out. Just go Google here make a search Palm Inc patents and you will see all the way thousands of them. Besides, I think HP should make all the efforts to asure all OEM`s manufacturers worldwide that webOS opensource is others patents proof in order to avoid future lawsuits at all and before launching webOS Opensource 1.0 in September. One of the Palm Inc patents (link below ) I like is related to unfolding mobiles and you Samsung have the flexible displays ready to be incorporated in new mobiles. I believe that is one of the Trends for the late 2012 and 2013. There is no flexible/unfoldable mobile officialy unveiled for any OEM`s at this time yet, only concepts. Patent US20030098857 - Detachable flexible and expandable display with touch sensor apparatus and ... - Google Patents In this month HP will launch the final version of webOS Open 1.0, now available in Beta. Our related post can help you, as well: Trends 2013: Products with flexible/unfold displays: small batteries with more power. Who will be the first to launch?