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Samsung Releases 1080p Projector

Announced nearly a year ago, Samsung's [SEO: 005930] fancy SP-A800B DLP projector will finally be available in the United States this summer. The bulbous black device will feature 1080p picture and a native contrast ratio of ...READ»

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Samsung Shows One Future For Touchscreen Cellphones: Alphabet Gestures

Samsung has knocked out cellphones like there's no tomorrow recently--and its latest pair of touchscreen smart phones come with a novel feature--programmable gestures. Programmable gestures, like those used with graphics pads and on ...READ»

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Samsung Blue Earth: The World's First Solar-Powered Touchscreen Phone in Action

Samsung first announced the impending arrival of the Blue Earth, the first solar-powered touchscreen phone, this past February. CNET Asia had the enviable opportunity to check out the Blue Earth in person at CommunicAsia. The ...READ»

Technology: The Camera Phone Evolves

In college, I took an anthropology class. One of the first things we learned was that most people don't know our species' correct Latin name. We think we're homo sapiens, but we actually haven't been homo sapiens for some time. ...READ»

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Samsung Attempts Purchase of SanDisk

Samsung [005930] had a few billion laying around, so the company decided today to make an unsolicited offer to purchase Flash memory maker SanDisk [SNDK]. In what was apparently an attempt to broaden its influence as the ...READ»

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Samsung's TL320 Digital Camera Sports Analog Dials For Retro Chic

It's the run-up to photography tradeshow PMA 2009, so we can expect a pile of new digital camera news: Standing out among the new releases today is Samsung's TL320. It's a point-and-shoot compact device, much like many others, but ...READ»

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Samsung Follows in Wal-Mart's Footsteps With Multibillion Dollar Green Investment

Less than a week after Wal-Mart announced plans to build a massive "Sustainability Index" for every product it sells, Samsung has announced its own sustainability plan: a $4.3 billion investment to cut carbon emissions by 50% over ...READ»

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Samsung Unveils Gesture-Sensing Hologram, but It's Not World's First

We've got holograms. We've got motion sensors. And now we've got a hologram gestural interface.READ»

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Three Ways to Lower Data Centers' Energy Thirst

The IT sector sucks up about as much energy as the aviation industry. This is largely due to the ugly guts of the Internet--the data centers with their racks of servers that must be constantly hooked up to power and cooled with ...READ»

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Samsung's 8MP Touchscreen Phone Coming

With Nokia [NOK] announcing their "Tube" touchscreen phone this week, it seems like Samsung [SEO:005930] got a little jealous and decided to let a few details about their Pixon cameraphone slip. The touchscreen phone will ...READ»

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Samsung Does the Impossible: Creates 'Finger Slim' and Energy-Efficient Plasma TV

Samsung announced this weekend that it plans to do what was once considered impossible: Manufacture an energy-efficient plasma TV. The company's HD 850 PDP "Finger Slim" is only 29 millimeters thick--just 1.15 inches from ...READ»

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Samsung's Next Cameraphone Does 3x Optical Zoom

A new rumored cameraphone from Samsung seems at last to be taking digital camera/cellphone crossover devices in the right direction: The M8920 has a proper three-times optical zoom instead of a low-quality digital ...READ»

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Samsung's Blue Earth is First Solar-Powered All-Touchscreen Cellphone

Samsung's Blue Earth is the first solar-powered all-touchscreen smartphone. The device even takes energy saving a bit further with a built-in "eco-mode" system. This system sets low screen backlight brightness and duration with a ...READ»

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Samsung Gets Compact Cameras Right: With a DSLR's Sensor

I've railed against the pointless war for more megapixels in digital cameras before: photography is about how best to capture light and including more densely-packed, tinier pixels just doesn't make sense. It seems that someone in ...READ»

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Samsung Predicts a Smartphone, OLED and Touchscreen-Rich Future

Samsung, with its suite of successful smartphones, is in a better position than most mobile phone makers to know about the future of the devices--and it's betting that in just three years 29% of all cellphones sold will be smart ...READ»

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Samsung Announces Eco-Phone

If you're a fan of biofuel, you'll love this: a phone made with a corn-based enclosure from Samsung [SEO:005930]. The E200 Eco phone doesn't sport any mind-blowing specs; it simply features a 1.3MP camera and MP3 player ...READ»

Digital Darwinism

Peter Weedfald is senior vice president of strategic marketing and new media for Samsung Electronics America Inc. In his keynote speech at Ad:Tech, he gave a high-level, high-minded look at Samsung's online strategy. What follows is ...READ»

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Taking on the Samsung Instinct

For the last few days I have been trying out Samsung's new phone, the Instinct. With a touch screen and a similar design, the comparison with the iPhone is unavoidable. So what do I think about it? While it isn't perfect, I am glad ...READ»

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Bizarre Samsung Micro-HD Cam Available May 15

Amazon reveals that Samsung's much-anticipated micro-HD camera, the HMX-R10, will be available on May 15 for $500. Samsung boasts that it's the smallest HD cam in the world--but what's truly noteworthy is the angle of the camera's ...READ»

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Android Rising: Samsung i7500 Smartphone and Alpha 680 Netbook

Android, the smartphone operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, is truly on the rise: T-Mobile's G1 cellphone has sold a million units; Motorola is working on hardware that will run Android; Archos is ...READ»

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Samsung Mass Produces Solid State Hard Drives

Admittedly, hard drives are not the stuff of most peoples' dreams. But they are, however, increasingly important in the future generations of notebooks: because they have no moving parts and can be configured to sip energy, they ...READ»

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Samsung Announces New LED LCD TVs

LED-lit HDTVs aren't new -- Samsung [SEO:005930] itself had one in production this past year -- but the company's second generation sets are nothing short of breathtaking in picture quality. The old LED TVs (dubbed the 81 Series) ...READ»

Samsung Reveals Media Streamer

Today is apparently Samsung day here on the Tech Watch blog, partially because your humble blogger attended a fancy Samsung media demo event today in New York's West Village, and partly because the tech gods haven't bestowed upon us ...READ»

Samsung's Battlecry

Samsung is taking on Apple. Samsung says their music players are doing well in countries without iTunes. They hope offering a music service may bring them success in markets where the iPod+iTunes combo dominates. Logically speaking, ...READ»

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How Expensive is Samsung's Viral Video Super PC?

This week Samsung released an "edgy" viral video to appeal to the youngsters and get people talking about its solid-state hard drives. At the risk of indulging the electronics company by doing just that, I've broken down the ...READ»