If you are a consumer electronics maker looking for profit in a time when would-be customers are counting their pennies, what do you do? One tactic: launch a new line of pricey products.
As anyone who has walked into Best Buy lately knows, the prices of high-definition TVs are in a precipitous freefall.
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A South Korean appeals court upheld the guilty verdict against the former chairman of the Samsung Group, who was sentenced during the summer on a tax evasion conviction, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Though Samsung has been churning out affordable headsets lately, most of them have pretty run-of-the-mill features and so-so performance levels.
Samsung's flagship one-chip DLP-based home theater projector, the SP-A800B, takes accuracy of signal reproduction to a new level.
Is it possible to base an LCD purchase strictly on the display's bezel? If so, Samsung has an LCD to sell you.
Plasma HDTVs seem almost passe these days, but in our experience they still produce generally better images than LCDs. The mid-price 50-inch Samsung PN50A550 reviewed here provides a typical example of what plasma can do right.
Samsung Electronics said Friday its profit rose 37 percent in the first quarter as strength in mobile phones and liquid crystal displays offset weakness in semiconductors
The chairman of the Samsung Group announced his resignation Tuesday, just days after his indictment amid an investigation into allegations of corruption.
If you are a consumer electronics maker looking for profit in a time when would-be customers are counting their pennies, what do you do? One tactic: launch a new line of pricey products.
As anyone who has walked into Best Buy lately knows, the prices of high-definition TVs are in a precipitous freefall.
Our Houston-based film production boutique, Zenfilm, specializes in advertising, music videos, documentaries, web video, and media strategy. As a husband-and-wife director-producer team, we have been making motion pictures together for almost 20 years.
A South Korean appeals court upheld the guilty verdict against the former chairman of the Samsung Group, who was sentenced during the summer on a tax evasion conviction, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Though Samsung has been churning out affordable headsets lately, most of them have pretty run-of-the-mill features and so-so performance levels.
Samsung's flagship one-chip DLP-based home theater projector, the SP-A800B, takes accuracy of signal reproduction to a new level.
Is it possible to base an LCD purchase strictly on the display's bezel? If so, Samsung has an LCD to sell you.
Plasma HDTVs seem almost passe these days, but in our experience they still produce generally better images than LCDs. The mid-price 50-inch Samsung PN50A550 reviewed here provides a typical example of what plasma can do right.
Samsung Electronics said Friday its profit rose 37 percent in the first quarter as strength in mobile phones and liquid crystal displays offset weakness in semiconductors
The chairman of the Samsung Group announced his resignation Tuesday, just days after his indictment amid an investigation into allegations of corruption.
In what may prove to be a milestone for corporate reform in South Korea, the country's most powerful businessman resigned from his post as chairman
The chairman of the Samsung Group plans to resign, according to a report published Tuesday by Yonhap, the South Korean news agency.
The chairman of the Samsung Group announced his resignation Tuesday, just days after his indictment amid an investigation into allegations of corruption.
Special prosecutors indicted the chairman of Samsung Group on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust Thursday
Among that tiny segment of the population that cares about the latest HDTV technology, and the even tinier segment that can afford it, the introduction of Samsung's 81 series of flat-panel LCDs is kind of like early Christmas. The first widely distributed LCD HDTVs to incorporate LED backlights -- Sony sold a few Qualia 005s a couple years ago at $8,000 to $15,000 a pop -- the Samsungs promise amazing black levels, claiming a contrast ratio spec of 500,000:1.
Modern ink jet printers are both cheap and fabulous - how often do you see that combination? Canon's Pixma iP6700D lists for a measly $179 and essentially puts a fully functioning photo lab on your desk. And the HP Photosmart C7180 delivers a wireless printer, scanner and fax for just $399.
With matte black finishes, prominent, blue-ringed lenses, and unusual touch sensor controls, Samsung's style-minded NV cameras are pretty hard to miss. Sitting at the top of the NV heap is the NV11, a 7.7-ounce, 10-megapixel camera that strikes just the right middle ground between the high-resolution, 3x zoom-equipped NV10, and the much bulkier 7-megapixel, 7x zoom-equipped NV5 and NV7 OPS.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. expects strong demand and cost cuts to boost second-half profit in its chip business, it said Friday.
While the wireless industry was going wild this summer over Apple's iPhone and the mere prospect of Google's foray into the business, Korean electronics maker Samsung quietly hit a milestone: It surpassed Motorola to become the No. 2 seller of mobile phones. In the second quarter Samsung shipped 37.4 million devices, compared with 35.5 million for Motorola.
One day in the not-so-far-off past, Kun-Hee Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, sent each of his closest friends and key employees one of the company's newest wireless phones as a New Year's present.
n electrical problem at a Samsung Electronics Co. factory Friday forced a partial halt in production at the world's largest memory chip maker, the company said, raising prospects of a global shortage
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Friday it shut down six of its chip production lines following a power cut at a plant near Seoul, prompting expectations of tighter supply and a rise in prices.
You'd think anyone making cell phones these days would be freaked by the impending launch of the Apple iPhone. But sipping on cold plum tea at a cafe in downtown Seoul, Kyungjin Lee doesn't seem too worried.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with Maytag and Samsung Electronics, issued a recall Thursday of 270,000 front loading washers that pose an electrical hazard to users.
South Korean newspapers are reporting that Samsung Electronics stole icons from Apple and Microsoft to create the user interface of its latest cell phones. Samsung's first response was to tell some Korean media outlets that the designs were "inspired" by other technology companies' products. Sure, if by "inspired" Samsung meant copied pixel for pixel, as postings on a Korean-language Mac bulletin board showed. A Samsung design executive later conceded that mistakes were made, and Samsung recalled its Skin phones from stores in South Korea, the only market in which it was on sale, and offered buyers downloadable updates to replace the offending graphics.
Is the telecom boom back? Following rumors of a deal, Level 3 has acquired ICG, an operator of Colorado and Ohio fiber networks, for $163 million. The Rocky Mountain News says one driver of the acquisition is the continuing growth of the wireless business, since wireless calls and data are carried from cell towers to wired networks. Telcos are also considering expanding international fiber links, after years with a glut of capacity on the market. After overbuilding in the 1990s led to a telecom boom and bust, says Business 2.0 senior writer Om Malik, we may be heading into a period of balance between telecom supply and demand --a situation which will be good for both telecom suppliers and consumers.
Less than a decade ago, his company was just another anonymous Asian supplier of commodity parts. Since then, Jong-Yong Yun, the CEO of Samsung Electronics, has seen it become the world's biggest c...
Samsung Electronics Company and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to plead guilty for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
The guts of a next-generation digital video camcorder are splayed on a worktable near Sun Woo Song's desk, although to a visitor's eye they might as well be the innards of a notebook computer or a ...
THE SAMSUNG D600 Samsung makes about 50% of the D600's components, and the phone is assembled in Gumi, South Korea. Like most cutting-edge phones, this $600 model (below, actual size) will be launched in Europe and Asia--then make its way to the U.S. Shell Black is the new silver: Samsung plans to unveil no fewer than ten black phones this year, vs. three last year. Sliding hinge Forget clamshells. Slick new designs like the D600 are "sliders." Its spring-assisted keypad slips out from under the phone with the smoothness of a switchblade. Main board Tantalum, mined in Brazil or Australia, is just one exotic element used on the circuitboard (in all, about one-quarter of the 109 elements are found in a phone). With 300 components, the circuitboard is the most expensive part of the phone. Tech consulting firm Portelligent estimates that it accounts for some 60% of the D600's $130 manufacturing cost. Vibrator (at top) Rap lovers, stay tuned. Engineers are trying to develop a speaker-vibrator combo, which woul
Bang and Olufsen is to team up with Korean electronics company Samsung to create a mobile phone incorporating B&O's top-quality acoustics and design.
Each May new camcorders appear on the shelves of electronics stores everywhere. Why now? Father's Day, for one thing. Also, electronics companies know that between graduations, summer vacations, we...
Yes, American companies still dominate when it comes to the leadership qualities executives around the world admire--but the competition is heating up, according to our latest global survey. This y...
At last, a reason to toss out that musty box of Arm & Hammer. In 2004, Samsung equipped its newest line of refrigerators with an interior coating of nanoscale silver particles—known to be a natural...
Samsung's announcement last week that it expects to see prices of its dynamic RAM chips fall by 30 percent in 2005 wasn't terribly surprising.
Spark looks at some of the latest gadgets and gizmos.
[HIT] Out with the drab.
If the wall of your den cries out for a big, beautiful flat-screen TV, but there's no way you can justify forking over the $4,000 it would cost to buy, say, the 42-inch Samsung shown above, stay tu...
Like many members of my species--Couchpotatosaurus rex--I am attracted to big-screen TVs. In an ideal world I would park my recliner in front of something like the 24-by 32-foot AstroVision video d...
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Let's face it: The novelty of hearing your cell phone play Fur Elise--or even a riff from 50 Cent's "Wanksta"--wears off pretty fast. Ditto for most of those video games you can play on your handse...
Let's face it: The novelty of hearing your cell phone play Fur Elise -- or even a riff from 50 Cent's Wanksta -- wears off pretty fast. Ditto for most of those video games you can play on your handset.
How to choose among 100 funds? We've sorted them into the broad asset-allocation groups you'd use to assemble a portfolio: large-cap, midcap, small-cap and global, plus specialty areas such as tech...
Last summer Chin Dae Je, the head of Samsung Electronics' digital media division, sent a laptop to Michael Dell. The two men had never met, but Samsung had recently signed a multiyear $16 billion d...
In Las Vegas. Headliners like Gates, Ellison, Chambers, and Whitman argued that despite the downturn, technology is by no means dead. It wasn't just lip-synching, either. New products and platforms...
This past Valentine's Day, a year-old Houston startup called Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc., or CNI, began FedExing jelly-jar-sized containers of a high-tech soot so coveted that buyers have been wil...
The Web address for Samsung's multifunction SF-4700 ($299) is sosimple.com. Hah! Printing and scanning initially didn't work because of the software. Phone support did help, but the SF-4700 still m...
Even in a year of remarkable recovery for Asia, some of the region's leading companies were foundering because of old bad habits. That wasn't the case with Samsung Electronics, whose CEO, Yun Jong ...
CEOs often go to extremes to save a company, but few have gone as far as Samsung's Lee Kun Hee. In October, the eccentric 57-year-old chairman of this sprawling South Korean conglomerate said he wo...
The way Western companies are charging into South Korea these days, you'd think the Asian financial crisis had never happened. General Motors, eager for a low-cost production base in Asia, is negot...
Some would call it "cloud talk," the Korean term for pie-in-the-sky dreaming. At the very least it's a $13 billion gamble. That's how much Samsung Group, the South Korean giant known for making eve...
While LG and Samsung struggle to restart broken-down U.S. hardware companies, one of their energetic compatriots is cruising fast down the soft lane. Miky Lee, a Korean heiress who recently persuad...
FORTUNE FOILS A HEART ATTACK
AFTER A LONG and highly successful run making cheap jogging shoes and consumer electronics, South Korea's giant conglomerates, or chaebol, have collided with the realities of the Nineties. Wages, a...
SOUTH KOREA'S long quest to be the next Japan seems right on schedule. The country's giant conglomerates are moving into every market on earth. Goldstar has bought a 5% stake in Zenith Electronics ...
SOUTH KOREA'S long quest to be the next Japan seems right on schedule. The country's giant conglomerates are moving into every market on earth. Goldstar has bought a 5% stake in Zenith Electronics ...
FROM THE burgeoning Asian economies outside Japan -- from South Korea and Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and beyond -- a new breed of corporate giant is rising to challenge top businesses in both t...
THE KEY to South Korea's astounding economic success is a group of unique conglomerates called chaebol. Initially backed by huge injections of government credit, these small family companies have b...
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