
Samsung Galaxy S7 to launch on March 11th in the US
According to @evleaks
Although Samsung might announce its newest flagship Galaxy S7 smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC 2016) next month, it appears that it won't go on sale until March 11th, at least in the US.

Tame Apple Press braces itself for iPhone slump
Finally wakes up
The Tame Apple Press is starting to report what we have been saying for months, iPhone sales have slumped for the first time in ten years.

Samsung 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player arriving early
Mid-February if you pre-order for $100 below launch price
Back at CES 2016 in Las Vegas earlier this month, we were able to take a glimpse at Samsung’s very first consumer 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500, and the small selection of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc launch titles to go along with it.

Samsung begins 20nm High Bandwidth Memory 2 production
256GB/s with four 8Gb stacks, seven-fold increase over GDDR5
Roughly six months ago, AMD launched the first graphics cards packed with first-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Today, Samsung has just announced production of the industry’s first 20nm 4GB DRAM package based on second-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2).

Apple, Samsung and Sony in child-labour claim
Seven year olds mining for Cobalt
Apple, Samsung and Sony have been named and shamed in an Amnesty International report for not doing enough to prevent child labour crimes in the production of products.

Samsung to begin production of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820
Using new second-gen 14nm FinFET low-power plus (LPP) process
On Thursday, Samsung announced it has begun mass production of the company’s second-generation 14nm 3D FinFET low-power plus (LPP) process technology.

Mother of Snapdragons choses Samsung
Qualcomm knifes TSMC
Qualcomm's long running partnership with TSMC appears to be grinding to a halt after the chipmaker chose rival Samsung to make its coming flagship mobile chip.

130 countries getting Netflix
4K for nearly everyone
One of the most important developments at CES was Netflix's announcement that it was deploying to 130 countries.

Qualcomm wants to know which rat squealed to the watchdogs
Applies for court documents
Qualcomm is very interested who ratted it out to the Korean anti-trust authroities and has asked seven of its major customers and rivals to hand over the paperwork of what they told the watchdogs.

Samsung thinks BoTs are hot for the IoT
Internet of Things will need a large BoT
Samsung has been thinking laterally about the Internet of Things and has decided to invest shedloads in batteries.