So what happens when an Apple store opens in a shopping area. The whole area benefits and in some areas with sales quadrupling. Just check out the graphic below. I’m hoping this happens to Plymouth, UK since the recession has impacted the high street too much, and this month Apple is opening a new store.
Reuters has reported that for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s No.1 maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips, to invest in Sharp, ta Japanese display maker spotlights an uncomfortable fact: it is no longer the undisputed global leader in displays.
Cross-town rival LG Display Co Ltd overtook Samsung’s display unit last year as the world’s top maker of liquid crystal displays.LG Electronics Inc, an affiliate of the display company, has beat Samsung to market with a TV using a new technology – thin, bright organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens – on which Samsung has staked its future in the display business.
And even Japan’s Sharp Corp, which had to be bailed out by its banks last autumn and which Samsung has now taken on as a partner, has pulled into the lead in some of the latest LCD production and thin-screen technology.
Samsung’s $111 million investment in Sharp, announced on Wednesday, will thus not only give it access to the Japanese company’s technology, it will turn up the heat on its own display unit that many analysts say has some catching up to do.
“It’s a warning message in a sense that Samsung is sending to Samsung Display,” said an industry analyst with a top four-star rating from Thomson Reuters StarMine, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject. Well that’s Reuters take on the situation.
Perhaps a bit more obvious is Samsung needs to learn the trade secrets to copy from Sharp and others and then produce better screen technology.
Without a doubt the Samsung Note 2 is in a class of its own, providing you like a larger than life screen.
Tomorrow sees the release of the new Galaxy S4. But will the new software and hardware of the S4 be enough to top the Note 2.
Part of me believes the Note 2 will be king but maybe the 5 inch screen size will be more popular.
Do you have any thoughts?
Tomorrow could reveal more than the replacement to the S3.
In fact the Galaxy S III might also get a refresh and feature a better display, wireless charging, and 2,400 mAh battery.
If this did occur this would leave Samsung with a very strong line up.
According to Nokia’s latest financials it’s will owe Microsoft around $650m which according to Nokia will mean it will return to a profit this year based on current sales and growth estimates.
Good news if the sales continue forward. Always better to have more competition in the market place.
Samsung has lost its High Court battle against Apple in the United Kingdom after a judge deemed that the patents the Korean company was using in its case should have never been granted.
Apple has now fended off 24 patent-infringement claims from Samsung, and Samsung’s bid to secure a 2.4% royalty on every 3G-equipped device the Cupertino company sells is looking increasingly unlikely.
Judge Christopher Floyd ruled that Apple’s products do not infringe Samsung’s patents that cover the ability to send and receive information over a 3G data network. Furthermore, Floyd found the uses existed in prior art, meaning Samsung’s patents are invalid.
What the world need is the UK Judges to sit on every patent lawsuit and use its common sense approach to bringing these nonsense cases from both sides to swift conclusions. All that is happening is that the lawyers are dreaming of their next luxury holiday whilst innovation potentially gets stifled.
The Korean Times published recently that Samsung global spend on marketing and advertising totals $11bn annually.
That’s right $11bn. No wonder everybody wants a Samsung phone.
Tesco, one of the largest UK supermarkets, has launched Clubcard TV.
This will include The Only Way is Essex, The Shawshank Redemption and the Care Bears TV show
and will be offered free to 16 million Clubcard (its loyalty card) holders – if they watch personalised adverts before and during shows. Initially it will only be available on computers – but tablet, phone and game console versions planned
The supermarket last year bought online film service Blinkbox, with the aim of taking on Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
It’s free but not everyone will want to have a film or show ruined by adverts. But I wonder if this is only the start, and whether future plans include having its own shows.
(Reuters) – BlackBerry shares rose 14 percent on Monday, fueled by takeover speculation and news that AT&T Inc will start selling the new BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone in the United States on March 22.
The speculation was sparked by a comment from the head of China’s Lenovo Group Ltd, who told a French newspaper on Monday that the personal computer maker might consider an acquisition of Canada’s BlackBerry at some point in the future.
“External growth remains a question of opportunities,” said Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo’s CEO, in an interview with Les Échos.
Any interesting comment and probably a good fit too.
With only a few days left before the launch of the S4, it is Samsung themselves who have revealed the photo of the S4. I have edited the photo by increasing the light to make it clearer, as Samsung’s original was darker. From the photo it clearly looks like they have retained the shape of the current S3.
