One of the company's newest phones uses the same technology found in cutting-edge TVs to deliver incomparable color.

The partnership between Samsung Electronics and Sony is facing a serious test, with Sony drawing first blood, testing samples of LCD panels manufactured by LG Display.

Samsung has told European journalists at its 2009 European Forum that consumers expecting an OLED television from the company anytime soon shouldn't hold their breath.

Samsung Electronics, which employs VA (vertically-aligned) display technology, and LG Display, which adopts IPS (in-plane switching) display technology, are fiercely competing over share of the Chinese LCD TV market.

Samsung expects solid-state drives to reach price parity with hard-disk drives within the next few years amid steep annual price declines in flash memory chips.

LG beat Samsung in the final rankings to emerge as the channel champion in the LCD category. LG did better than Samsung in four out of the five parameters— price-performance, marketing and branding, service and support, and channel relationships.

Samsung said statistics showed that it had achieved top revenue in the UAE with a 27 per cent market share.

Samsung Electronics may shed jobs through a voluntary retirement program as the consumer electronics giant faces a sharp drop in profits amid a global economic slowdown.

A group of leaders in the wireless industry comprised of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, Kineto Wireless, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nortel, Samsung, Starent Networks, T-Mobile and ZTE have announced a joint effort, referred to as the Voice over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA) Forum

The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) workgroup was created in May of 2006 to standardize the low-level interface to NAND flash chips from different manufacturers. However, the two largest NAND flash manufacturers are not members of ONFI. Samsung and Toshiba together account for approximately 70% of global NAND flash production, although their market share has been dropping by around 10% annually since ONFI was first standardized. SanDisk is also notably absent from the list of members.

Along with the memory chip sector, the global flat-screen panel industry is facing a major consolidation, with Taiwan's leading LCD panel makers engaging in detailed M&A talks to increase profitability. Analysts and industry watchers say such moves, if realized, will help Korean LCD panel duo Samsung Electronics and LG Display raise their global market share.