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Samsung aims to treble smartphone sales in 2010

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it aimed to treble smartphone shipments this year to more than 18 million units as the world's second-biggest cellphone maker scrambles to make a mark in the fast-growing smartphone market.

February 4, 2010, 4:36 pm
  • Search for 'Jetsons family' to test home

    The New South Wales Government is calling for volunteers to live rent free for a year in a so-called smart home in Sydney.

    February 8, 2010, 3:31 pm
  • Samsung aims to triple smartphone sales in 2010

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it aimed to triple smartphone shipments this year to more than 18 million units as the world's second-biggest cellphone maker scrambles to make a mark in the fast-growing smartphone market.

    February 5, 2010, 9:38 am
  • Nexus One gets touch and 3G capabilities

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google is ramping up its entry in the hotly competitive smartphone race by adding "pinch-to-zoom" multi-touch and 3G wireless broadband network capabilities to the Nexus One.

    February 4, 2010, 7:03 am
  • Nokia logs more than 1m navigation users

    More than a million a smartphone users have downloaded the free navigation software that Nokia started offering last month, the mobile phone maker says.

    February 4, 2010, 6:34 am
  • Italian developer takes down iMussolini application from store

    ROME (AFP) - The developer of iMussolini, a popular iPhone application of the fascist dictator's speeches, said he took down the application from the Apple online store after legal threats from Cinecitta Luce, who says it owns the copyright for the videos.

    February 4, 2010, 4:58 am
  • Apple iPad to ignite tablet computer market: ABI

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - ABI Research said Tuesday that Apple's iPad highlights the "real start" of a tablet computer market that should grow more than tenfold to reach about 57 million devices sold annually by 2015.

    February 3, 2010, 12:00 pm
  • Google tailoring tablet computer software

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - As iPad commanded the technology world's attention, Google continued working quietly on tablet computer software that could run rivals to Apple's latest creation.

    February 3, 2010, 11:47 am
  • Microsoft's Bing will make money: executive

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's 10-month-old search engine Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google, can be a viable runner-up and make money online eventually, according to one of its top executives.

    February 3, 2010, 11:24 am
  • Obama answers questions from YouTube users

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama answered questions from YouTube users Monday in the latest embrace of cyberspace by a White House that has also launched Facebook and MySpace pages and Twitter and Flickr feeds.

    February 2, 2010, 11:32 am
  • Air France crash sparked flight panic

    Panic over a doomed Air France flight months earlier sparked the altercation on a Brazilian jet in December, a court heard on Monday.

    February 2, 2010, 10:28 am
  • Scientist aims to revive paralysed limbs

    A brain implant that could restore some limb control to a quadriplegic person is "not too far" away, according to one of the world's leading researchers.

    February 2, 2010, 12:03 am
  • Asian companies hope to reap iPad boom

    TAIPEI (AFP) - The iPad may have been designed in the United States, but Apple's money-spinning products are manufactured in the high-tech factories of east Asia.

    February 1, 2010, 10:58 am
  • Apple takes a bruising over iPad name

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - As Apple takes a bruising over the moniker of its latest creation some technology analysts are shrugging off the fuss over the name to focus on what's inside the iPad: a speedy new chip.

    January 31, 2010, 1:25 am
  • US Holocaust survivors blast Mussolini iPhone app

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US-based group of Holocaust survivors on Friday condemned an Apple iPhone application featuring speeches by Benito Mussolini, calling it "an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism."

    January 31, 2010, 1:22 am
  • Cyber crooks cashing in on iPad frenzy

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Hackers and scammers are cashing in on iPad fever by luring the curious to booby-trapped websites with false promises of information about Apple's new tablet computer.

    January 30, 2010, 9:45 am
  • Twitter users ask: What will Bin Laden address next?

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Osama bin Laden's foray into climate change has sparked a lively guessing game on Twitter as to what subject the Al-Qaeda chief may choose to address on his next tape.

    January 30, 2010, 4:16 am
  • Japan's Fujitsu says it made first 'iPad'

    TOKYO (AFP) - Apple's new tablet PC is not the first product to be called the "iPad".

    January 30, 2010, 2:30 am
  • Samsung Elec bullish on TV, chip demand

    SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics expects rapidly recovering demand for its premium computer memory chips and flat screen TVs to drive growth this year, with the unwinding of global stimulus measures the key risk for sales.

    January 29, 2010, 10:35 pm
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