Wednesday 6th February, 2013: Leading music subscription service Deezer today announced partnerships with big-name TV manufacturers Samsung, LG and Toshiba to give music lovers across the globe unlimited access to a catalogue of over 20 million tracks via state of the art smart TV sets.
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This in turn will lead to higher shipment volume of LCD glass provided by Corning to various panel manufacturers like Samsung.
The first phones using the new operating system will be available later this year from manufacturers including Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony Ericsson.
By providing an early extensive global supply of LPDDR3 DRAM to smartphone and tablet manufacturers, Samsung expects to see a significant increase in the adoption of 2GB mobile DRAM.
SwiftKey is a London-based technology company that makes money from selling its app on Google Play for Android, and from licensing its language-prediction technology to device manufacturers like Samsung.
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Going forward, look for the latest, greatest, high-end devices to all be vertically integrated, while many of the low-cost, copy-cat devices will come to the market later and be made by mass market manufacturers like Samsung.
With large manufacturers like Samsung and Sony now making a play for the space (not to mention Apple and Google, which have both been trying to gain a toehold in the field), expect the war for the living room to heat up this year.
When armchair reviewers bemoan the lack of an obvious hook to the Galaxy S III, that's the risk they take -- that they'll eventually force manufacturers like Samsung to make crazy hardware claims as a prerequisite to selling devices, even if those claims later turn out to be empty promises.
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An earlier incarnation of this technology in 2008 was supported by other HDD manufacturers such as Samsung.
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Apple has a leading market position by a wide margin with its iPad and others, like Microsoft (MSFT) and several mobile phone manufacturers, like Samsung, are trying to catch up.
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When the Chrome operating system initiative got under way several years ago, Google tried to build Chrome devices on its own but ultimately opted to let manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics Co.
And for those developers who want broad exposure, developing for Android may become more compelling as the installed base grows and as leadership amongst a limited number of manufacturers (ie Samsung, Motorola) emerges.
This may push manufacturers like HTC and Samsung towards Windows Phone 7.
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Its concern focused on whether Google would favour Motorola Mobility over handset manufacturers like HTC or Samsung - which also use Google's Android system.
Next year Adobe is eliminating its fee to phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, which will put a mobile version of Flash on a billion phones by 2009.
There are 30 compatible handsets available from major manufacturers including Nokia and Samsung while Virgin said more than 14.9 million consumers across the globe can use the service currently.
Most major smartphone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Dell, LG and others have tied up with Microsoft to build smartphones powered by its new OS. However, Windows Phone device sales have not been up to expectations, according to Steve Ballmer himself.
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Samsung and other manufacturers have already caused a number of problems for Apple.
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With the launch of the SAFE-branded Galaxy S III, Samsung is announcing the availability of a trade-up program called SAFE2SWITCH which simplifies the transition to Samsung SAFE devices from Samsung or other manufacturers' smartphones.
The growing Chinese demand is an indicator of where mobile phone manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Research in Motion and others will be seeing most of their sales growth in the coming years.
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The HDD companies, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are participating in better management of storage device energy use, as are flash manufacturers such as SanDisk, Samsung and Toshiba and many flash based storage equipment suppliers such as Skyera, Smart Storage Systems and Virident.
This was brought on by Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers that are building larger devices.
HTC, Samsung, other hardware manufacturers could benefit as well.
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While putting on a brave face, Google has triggered alarm bells for the growing number of handset and tablet manufacturers--like HTC, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson--that rely on Android to power their devices.
Although traditional cell phone manufacturers, such as Motorola and Samsung, had smartphone technology many years prior to Apple, they were so focused on their traditional markets they failed to look into the future.
When Sprint wanted to enter the mobile-phone business in the U.S. five years ago, it talked to the leading phone manufacturers, Nokia and Motorola and Samsung Electronics of Korea, a company that was better known for making semiconductors.
Despite numerous and repeated efforts of manufacturers (Nokia, but also Samsung and HTC) and operators to develop an alternative to Android and Apple based on Windows, and despite the launch of numerous phones based on Windows with strong features, reviews and marketing support, the operating system remains cornered to less than 5% market share in smartphones.
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Very high, because Chinese manufacturers will commoditize whatever high end features Samsung and Apple develop.
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Emerging markets will expose Samsung to intense competition from local manufacturers and drive down pricing levels in the long run.
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Microsoft and the various WP7 device manufacturers, such as HTC, LG and Samsung, will contribute resources toward marketing, he said.
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