The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to investigate separate complaints made against Sharp and Research In Motion (RIM) that each allege the companies are infringing patents held by the complainants.
Samsung has invested in Fusion-io, deepening the relationship between two significant players in the fast-growing flash-storage business.
Mobile phone sales for 2008 showed 6 per cent growth globally, although the economic downturn led to a 4.6 per cent decline in the fourth quarter, research firm Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.
Samsung plans to expand its range of smart phones, possibly to include one running Google's Android OS.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics recorded a net loss for the last three months of 2008, while its net profit for the entire year fell 26 percent, the company said.
Samsung is upgrading its memory technology and manufacturing processes, which could lead to price drops for solid-state drives (SSDs).
Samsung has revealed a new cellphone, the S3030 Tobi, which is aimed at 'pre-teens'. The phone features an interface specially designed for younger audiences, which features animated characters and themes. The phone's changeable rear covers have a sleeve to put in their own pictures.
Samsung has demonstrated a prototype 40-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) that is just 7.9 millimeters thin. That beats an 8mm-thin, 32-inch prototype from Philips that previously held the world record for the thinnest LCD.
Samsung Electronics has withdrawn its offer to acquire rival flash memory-maker SanDisk citing a lack of progress after six months of discussions between the two companies.
When Samsung Electronics offered to buy SanDisk for US$5.85 billion (NZ$8.48 billion) earlier this month, some in the industry hoped news of the possible takeover might stem a long-running decline in NAND flash memory chip prices.
SanDisk has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from hardware maker Samsung Electronics, saying that it undervalues the maker of flash storage cards.
Samsung is in talks with Microsoft to improve the performance of solid-state drives on the Windows OS.
Samsung has unveiled a high-endurance 8GB single-level cell NAND flash memory chip, jointly developed with Sun Microsystems, which can significantly boost the lifespan and performance of solid-state drives.
Telecommunications services provider Zintel has acquired the business assets of Commspec from Downer EDI Engineering.
Commspec is a reseller of Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung products.
Samsung has begun shipping a flash memory-based solid state disk drive (SSD) that it says offers better performance than many of the flash drives currently available.