Each movie and TV show delivered through Media Hub is optimized for the best entertainment experience based on the device's screen size, screen type, video resolution, memory type, processor and sound profile.

ENGADGET: AT&T now offering carrier billing services on Samsung's Media Hub video purchases

On an airplane, the noise-canceling claim is borne out, though a head-to-head comparison with a pair of Bose headphones suggests that the noise-canceling profile is somewhat different than the active-reduction type.

FORBES: Getting There: In Which Our Reporter Flies to the American West, Is Captivated by the View

As you might imagine, becoming the dominant player in electronics component manufacturing in China -- particularly at a time when competition has never been fiercer -- takes a particular personality type, and after reading BusinessWeek's profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, you get a very real sense that the dude meets the criteria.

ENGADGET: BusinessWeek profiles Foxconn founder (and veritable pitbull) Terry Gou

Chinese investors caught up in a high-profile dispute with local bank Huaxia over losses related to an increasingly scrutinized type of short-term investment product have been repaid.

WSJ: What's News

We gamers are familiar with endless amounts of Call of Duty-type shooters placing us in the middle of dangerous missions to take out high profile targets, and rarely do we ever hear about operations of this caliber in real life.

FORBES: The Real Life Black Ops Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden

This type of discussion tends to come up every time it's revealed that a high-profile killer also played video games.

CNN: John D. Sutter,