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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. announced a major restructuring Friday, consolidating business operations into two divisions as South Korea’s most powerful and iconic corporation deals with the slowing global economy and expectations of looming red ink.
The new organization was included in an announcement of personnel changes at the [...]

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The Samsung NC10 doesn’t exactly break the mould when it comes to design. It’s a standard 10.2-inch Netbook that in terms of design sits squarely between the Asus Eee PC 1000 and the MSI Wind. This isn’t a bad thing, as Samsung has clearly looked at what works and put its own spin on it. [...]

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Spansion, a struggling Silicon Valley maker of flash memory chips, filed a pair of broad patent infringement suits on Monday against Samsung of South Korea, the world’s largest producer of the chips.
In a complaint to the International Trade Commission in Washington, Spansion is seeking to bar the import into the United States of [...]

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Samsung has dropped its bid to purchase SanDisk
SanDisk is on the skids along with the majority of the flash memory makers as the weak global economy and over supply of product on the market are driving the price of flash products down. While lower prices are good for consumers, some major flash product makers maintain [...]

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What a week for laptops! We’ll start with the big news, which drew many a visitor to Crave: at a press event in Cupertino, Calif., Steve Jobs announced a number of updates to Apple’s MacBook line. Get a sense of the changes with our “new vs. old” analysis of the MacBook, MacBook [...]

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Samsung Q310
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Samsung announced earlier this week that it would begin selling laptops in the U.S., and the first model, the 13-inch Q310 has is now for sale on Newegg.com. Two Q310 models are listed, the СЕКРЕТУТКА,049 Q310-34G and the нфШс-РЈРΜРЅРΜРҐР¶РΜСЂ,249 Q310-34P. (The prices reflect a $100 and a $50 discount, respectively.)
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When Samsung announced the X360 earlier this year, we were jealous. Here was a 2.8-pound laptop with a 13.3-inch display, 1.2 inches at its thickest, that we were sure we’d never see in the United States. But with Samsung’s entry into the U.S. laptop market, we now have a chance to get our hands [...]

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Samsung comes back to American market with notebooks and a new netbook
Samsung announced that it is jumping into the U.S. market for notebook computers. The announcement came today, the same day that Apple is expected to introduce new MacBook models.
Reuters reports that Samsung will announce several new notebook computers today that specifically target some of [...]

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After months of rumors, Samsung has finally made it official: The company will be bringing its NC10 Netbook to the United States.
The 2.8-pound minilaptop’s white case toes the design line established by the Asus Eee PC, Acer Aspire One, and others. So it’s no surprise that the NC10’s configuration [...]

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Tuesday’s laptop announcement from Samsung includes specialized models for travelers and business users, but what about the average home user who wants a solid laptop at a relatively low price? That’s where the 13-inch Q310 and 16-inch R610 come in: neither as flashy as the ultraportables nor as rugged as the business models, [...]

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