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SanDisk has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from hardware maker Samsung Electronics, saying that it undervalues the Milpitas, California, maker of flash storage cards. The two companies had been in takeover talks for about four months, but Samsung went public with its offer Tuesday, apparently after discussions had broken down. "Our offer insulates your shareholders from the risk of market conditions that have severely deteriorated and are expected to remain challenging," Samsung Vice Chairman and CEO Yoon-Woo Lee wrote in a letter to SanDisk executives that Samsung released Tuesday. SanDisk Chairman and CEO Eli Harari responded quickly, saying in a...

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April 22, 2008 Samsung chairman Lee Kun Hee resigns on national TV Leo Lewis, Asia Business Correspondent The chairman of Samsung, the most powerful tycoon in South Korea, has fallen on his sword after an unprecedented investigation of his business affairs. Lee Kun Hee, the reclusive 66-year old patrician who has led the family-controlled chaebol empire for two decades, appeared live on national television in Seoul this afternoon to announce his resignation. Samsung is responsible for a fifth of all South Korean exports and runs 59 operations throughout the world, from theme parks and mobile phones to memory chips and...

Italy's Hot New Couturier Has an Unfamiliar Ring By RACHEL DODES and SUNGHA PARK February 21, 2008; Page B1 In a recent advertising spread in Italian Vogue, a model poses while the contents of her handbag -- including several cellphones -- spill into the street. A caption explains that she is wearing "tutto Derercuny." Not quite "all Derercuny." There is Samsung in there, too. Unbeknownst to many followers of high fashion, Derercuny, a three-year-old Italian label that is garnering attention during this week's Milan fashion shows, is part of South Korea's sprawling Samsung Group. Best known for Samsung Electronics Co.,...

Japan's Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. said on Tuesday they would jointly develop 32-nanometre chips to better keep up with rivals. The companies will continue talks about jointly producing the chips, and aim to reach a decision in 2008, they said. The two had also approached Fujitsu Ltd, but spokesman Etsuro Yamada declined to comment on whether or not Fujitsu would join the group, only saying that "Fujitsu was considering various options." Chip makers are racing to halve the production cost per function of a chip every year or two. Samsung Electronics Co., IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Infineon...

Samsung power cut may trigger flash crisis Samsung may face a major supply issue with flash memory in the wake of an accidental power cut, the company told the press on Friday. An interruption in power near one of the company's Seoul, Korea plants has forced the company to halt production at six of the factories that produce the NAND flash used by cellphones, portable media players, and other devices. The company estimates that its losses could tally over $54 million, while the immediate (non-contract) price of a standard chip has already climbed 9 percent as a result of the...

Samsung to Release New Blogging Phone Samsung Electronics will launch in Europe this month its Mobile Blog 3G Phone (SGH-L760), which allows users to upload content directly to blog sites on the Internet. The phone is expected to further fuel the current boom in mobile Internet and user-created content services, as it can upload directly to popular UCC sites like YouTube, Ublog and Buzznet. A Samsung spokesman said the model will meet the demands of the new generation of users who want to share their everyday life with others in real time. The mobile blog function's speedy data transmission...

Samsung Electronics Launches Swan New Monitors Samsung Electronics has launched a series of four new monitors whose “neck” distantly recalls the shape of a swan’s. The new models target the market for medium-sized and large monitors. They are the 20-inch SyncMaster CX2032GW/BW models and 22-inch SyncMaster CX2232GW/BW models. Each pair consists of a wide-screen and Magic Clear panels. Only six months after their global debut in January this year, the Swan monitor series became million-sellers. More than 3 million Swan monitors are expected to be sold by the end of 2007. The monitors’ hinges are made of an elastomer...

Excerpt - SEOUL, April 29 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, said Sunday it has begun mass producing 16-gigabit NAND flash memory chips using an ultra-dense 51-nanometer technology for the first time in the world. The full-scale production came after Samsung begun producing 8-gigabit NAND flash memory chips using 60-nanometer technology in August 2006, memory chips that have half the memory size and slower read and write speed than 16-gigabit ones. NAND flash memory refers to the chips used mostly in digital cameras, USB flash drives, cell phones and music players such as...

Samsung has announced a 120 GB 1.8" Hard Drive, suitable for use in Apple's full-sized iPods. Currently, Apple's high-end iPod features an 80 GB drive. Seagate also offers a 120 GB 1.8" Hard Drive, and Toshiba currently maxes out at 100 GB in the 1.8" variety. Some recent rumors have indicated that Apple may be toying with the idea of going to an all-flash based lineup, however such a move would make high-capacity iPods impossible at a reasonable price point, even despite plummeting flash prices.

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Televisions grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday with companies showcasing everything from super-sized models for the red-hot LCD market to technology enabling TVs to play video straight from the Internet. A slew of consumer electronics makers introduced bigger flat-screen TVs, while others highlighted products to enhance viewing, such as a DVD player that could be a bridge between rival formats for next-generation video discs. Sharp Corp showed off a 108-inch high-definition LCD television to rival a 100-inch model introduced only hours earlier by LG Electronics Inc. Sharp said its was the biggest yet among liquid crystal...

The wraps came off high-definition DVD players at this year's annual Consumer Electronics Show, offering the final component to replicate the movie theater experience at home. And while a fierce DVD format war likely will delay the mass adoption of such devices, digital video is here to stay - the Consumer Electronics Association trade group estimates 25 million U.S. homes will have a high-def TV set by year's end. But big, expensive flat-panel sets aside, this year's gadget show offered plenty of smaller screens for video... Yahoo Inc., DirecTV, Starz Entertainment Group and Sony were also among the companies getting...

Samsung has admitted to stealing Apple's intellectual property. The company on Sunday said that it has updated and revised the icons used in its latest handset model "Skin," which used work from both Apple and Microsoft, according to The Korea Times: "The electronics giant admitted plagiarizing designs of the handset’s graphic user interface. Many graphic designers and other Internet users on various Web communities [...] over the last two weeks have accused the firm of stealing the designs. The new handset, which began selling here in late April, has an identical graphic icon with Apple’s iMac PC which is composed...

For some time I have been following the legal dilemma of a computer memory design company, named RAMBUS, and their battles to retain their intellectual property rights against four memory manufacturing giants. The more I learn the more I believe the Federal Trade Commission is a corrupt bureaucracy. Perhaps the most comprehensive writing on this issue (in non-legalese) is the following letter I found on the Yahoo Rambus message board. ------------------------------- "The Honorable Pete V. Domenici United States Senate 328 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510-3101 Dear Senator Domenici, I am writing you regarding an ongoing enforcement action by...

Rambus (RMBS:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) won a major court victory Monday when a jury found that South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor infringed on the company's patents. A federal court jury in San Jose, Calif., found that Hynix, the world's No. 2 computer memory maker, infringed on all 10 patents at issue, and awarded Rambus $307 million, according to Pacific American Securities analyst Michael Cohen, who has been attending the trial for the past month.

David Pogue Almost iPod, but in the End a Samsung Published: March 9, 2006 ALL right, we've now entered Year 5 of the iPod Era. Apple's rivals have had plenty of time to study the iPod, figure out what makes it such a hit and offer reasonable competition. Samsung hired a designer of the iPod to create its new player. The Z5 displays an image of the CD cover when a song or album is highlighted in a menu. As you may have noticed, however, that hasn't happened. Of every 100 people walking by in their little music isolation bubbles,...

Samsung has taken the wraps off a mobile phone that boasts what it says is the biggest hard drive seen on such a device to date. The "candy bar"-style device, the SGH-i310, will pack 8GB of storage and run Windows Mobile 5.0. Samsung is hoping the device, which can hold more songs than an iPod Nano, will take off with music fans. In addition to its large hard drive, the device will let users sync playlists from their PC as well as store documents, photos and other information in the phone's internal memory. The i310 is the fourth of Samsung's...

The Times November 29, 2005 Lonely suicide of the lovelorn millionairess By Andrew Salmon and James Bone Samsung tried to cover up death of heiress who had everything money could buy SHE was young and appeared to have it all. Lee Yoon Hyung, an heiress to the family that controls South Korea’s Samsung Group, certainly had all the money she could ever need to indulge her passion for fast cars and fine art. With a personal fortune estimated at £105 million and degrees from prestigious universities in New York and Seoul, there seemed to be no limit to what she...

SEOUL/NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (Yonhap) -- The youngest daughter of Lee Kun-hee, chairman of South Korea's largest conglomerate Samsung Group, took her own life last week, and did not die from a car accident as previously reported, a Samsung official confirmed Saturday. "We missed an opportunity to explain it as the media broke the story first," the official said on condition of anonymity, noting that the company found out about her suicide after its own investigation. Initially, the North American headquarters of Samsung Electronics Co. told the press on Monday that she had had a car accident and was...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Samsung, the world's largest maker of memory chips for computers and other electronic gadgets, will plead guilty to price fixing and pay a $300 million fine, federal officials announced Thursday. The penalty is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in history and caps a three-year investigation of the largest makers of "dynamic random access memory" chips, a $7.7 billion market in the United States. The guilty plea by South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., was to be entered Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The Justice Department already has...

South Korea’s anti-trust regulator reportedly said on Friday that questions about Apple Computer and Samsung engaging in unfair trading practices could be investigated by his organization. Fair Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Kang Chul-kyu reportedly stated on a radio show that he might investigate the companies after reports that Samsung sold its NAND flash memory chips to Apple Computer Inc. at below-market prices, according to a report by Yonhap News. Samsung is said to have sold a significant amount of its production to Apple at a discounted rate for the launch of the iPod nano. Apple representatives were not immediately available...

Jong-Yong Yun, Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, tonight hosted an elaborate display of some of the company's newest products and technologies — some shown for the first time in North America. (snip) Following Mr. Yun's address, attendees at the Global Road Show experienced in sound, video, and live demonstrations, a wide range of new products and devices including: • A 40-inch OLED television, the largest working prototype of this new screen technology. • The world's largest commercialized DLP (digital light projector) TV, measuring 71 inches. • A Blu-ray disc recorder with a built-in HD digital terrestrial tuner. •...

Samsung Elec unveils powerful new flash memory chip Sun Sep 11,11:28 PM ET Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on Monday it would start producing next year the world's highest-density flash memory chip, capable of boosting storage in hot-selling devices such as music players and digital cameras. Samsung (005930.KS), which already controls nearly 60 percent of the world's NAND flash market, said in statement commercial production of the new chip would start in late 2006. The global flash memory market is expected to be worth $10.14 billion this year, up from $7.01 billion last year, according to Dataquest. The 16-gigabit NAND...

Samsung SDI has developed what it claims is the world's largest PDP (plasma display panel), measuring 102 inches diagonally. The company plans to start producing the panels during the first half of 2005 at its Chonan factory in Chungchon, South Korea (news - web sites). Samsung SDI expects Samsung Electronics to buy the 102-inch panels and make them into TVs at a later time, says Samsung SDI spokesperson Bryan Sohn. The company would not reveal the prices for the panels at this time. The panels are capable of a high-definition resolution of 1920 pixels x 1080 pixels, a brightness...

snip...Samsung has become what Sony could once claim - the competitor with both the breadth of products and the appeal of a premium brand. This rapid reversal of fortunes illustrates the highly competitive world of consumer electronics that Sir Howard, a media man, is entering. Complacency and coasting on best-selling products have contributed to a nearly 75 percent decline in Sony's stock value since its March 1, 2000, peak. The invincible "factory of ideas" founded almost six decades ago by Akio Morita, the company that brought the world the transistor radio, the Walkman and the Trinitron television tube, seems to...

IN A SINGLE Sunday, the New York Times managed to call iPods unhip and denounce high school theater as a “refuge of nerds and spazzes.” Talk about having one’s finger on the pulse of pop culture. With the media in the doghouse according to mainstream America, is it really wise to insult Broadway and Apple in one day? I think we should all go Times Square and listen to “West Side Story,” freshly downloaded from iTunes, Apple’s online music store. That would send the Great Gray Lady straight “Into the Woods” for sure. We could protest all the way to...

The construction of what will be the world's tallest building is set to begin in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building contract was awarded to a consortium led by the South Korean Samsung Corporation on Thursday. The Burj Dubai tower will stand 800 metres tall - just 5 metres shy of half a mile - once completed in 2008. That will be a full 350 metres taller that the tallest floored in the world today, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The new tower’s unique, three-sided design will ascend in a series of stages, around a supportive central core and...

Samsung to build tallest building The tower is set to change Dubai's skyline South Korea's Samsung Corporation has won the contract to build the world's tallest building, the Burj Tower in Dubai. Samsung won the $306m(£160m) deal, after an 11-month bid process. The concrete and steel tower will be part of an $8bn(£4.2bn) 500-acre project in the United Arab Emirates. Workers have already started to clear the ground for the 800-metre high, 160-floor skyscraper and it should be completed by November 2008. Construction work on the Burj tower will begin in January, and when completed it will be taller...

JEDDAH, 4 April 2004 — Legal or not, mobile phones with cameras are alive and well in the Kingdom. They are openly on sale in phone souks and freely available over the counter in branded stores. To add to the confusion, the technically illegal Samsung E 700 is even advertised on a main thoroughfare in Jeddah. The authorities are reacting. Al-Yaum Arabic daily recently reported that a college student was expelled in the Eastern Province for taking pictures of her friends with her mobile phone camera on campus and distributing them via the Internet. Parents complained to the college administration...

<p>Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday will announce that it earned a record-breaking $2.5 billion Linux-based revenue in fiscal 2003, with its Linux services and solutions business posting a 40 percent rise over fiscal 2002.</p> <p>While the revenue was derived from the sale of Linux-related products and services, the Palo Alto, Calif., company did not specify exactly what was included and counted as Linux-based revenue.</p>

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers, the school said Thursday. Another six students were implicated in the case. The scheme worked this way: Test-takers brought their cell phones into the exam with them. They used the phones to contact friends outside the classroom