Samsung is set to announce a new 8.9-inch variation of its popular Galaxy Tab tablet computer, releasing it before the summer, reports Korean news agencyYonhap News. Although the company has not confirmed specifications, Samsung is expected to deliver a second Honeycomb-powered tablet and will be released in the global market via mobile operators, a strategy that was confirmed by a company spokesman. Local media outlets have suggested Samsung could announce its new 8....

To evade a temporary sales ban on its Android smartphones, Samsung has said it will release modified versions of three of its Galaxy smartphones in Europe, models that have already been judged to have infringed on patents held by Apple for its iPhone and iPad products,Reuters reports. As Samsung battles Apple in over twenty separate legal cases around the world, the company says it has changed the way its Android smartphones operate, addressing issues noted by Apple to release upgraded versions of the devices found to have been infringing on an Apple technology:...

Fall is a busy season for the tech world, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. On Monday, October 18, Apple is expected to reveal its new M1X MacBook Pros. On Tuesday, October 19, Google confirmed it is hosting its Pixel 6 event. Today, Samsung announced that on Wednesday, October 20, it’s holding a second ‘Unpacked’ event, where it will announce… something? It’s admittedly quite unusual for Samsung to have an ‘Unpacked Part 2,’ as the company is calling it....

Korean electronics giant is to invest over 10 trillion won ($9.3 billion) on research and development in an attempt to enhance its global competitiveness in the electronics, semiconductor and mobile phone industries, allocating funds to developing software within the company,Yonhap News reveals. The company is said to have already invested nearly 5 trillion won in research and development in the first half of the year, accounting for 6.5% of its sales, with expenditures expected to increase in the coming quarter....

The smartphone market has become a bit of an arms race, with manufacturers racing to eclipse the hardware specifications of their rivals in each new smartphone they release. Samsung, perhaps the world’s most emergent smartphone maker over the past year, has confirmed it intends to push the barriers of mobile computing, committing to releasing a 2GHz dual-core powered handset by 2012. The development of a 2GHz dual-core chip would provide new Samsung smartphones with data processing capacities of 4GHz, with the company considering selling the processing units separately....