Newsletter Archives

• Should you get a free credit report for any data breach?

  Posted on September 26, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  Samsung Electronics — the giant multinational that sells 28% of all the smartphones in the world, as well as many other consumer devices — has sent notices to some of its users that their personal information in Samsung’s database has been hacked.

  In a statement, the company says the hackers didn’t obtain users’ credit-card or debit-card numbers. But the intrusion did reveal some customers’ names, addresses, birthdates, and the Samsung products they’d registered. As a result, the corporation’s notices recommend that affected users obtain a copy of their credit report from major reporting agencies.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.39.0, 2022-09-26).

  Public Defender Credit Reports, data breach, Newsletters, Privacy, Public Defender, Samsung, Security

• Will Intel be a dominant chip company going forward?

  Posted on May 16, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  SILICON

  

  By Brian Livingston

  All the headlines seem to be bad for Intel lately — poor yields on bleeding-edge technologies, disappointed customers, lagging performance compared with competitors from around the world, and on and on.

  The truth of the matter is a bit more complicated.

  Most of the stories you’ve been reading in the mass media about Intel are telling only half the tale — if that.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.20.0, 2022-05-16).

  Silicon Apple Silicon, Intel, Newsletters, Samsung, Silicon, TSMC

• What technology will run your life a few years from now?

  Posted on April 11, 2022 at 02:43 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  SILICON

  

  By Brian Livingston

  “My interest is in the future, because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there,” said Charles Kettering, the head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947.

  I’m sure his statement is true. Time travel into the future isn’t science fiction — we all do it every day at the usual speed. But what kind of a future will it be, and can we head off the worst aspects of it?

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.15.0, 2022-04-11).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Silicon Intel, Newsletters, Samsung, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Silicon, TSMC

• Galaxy Book S, Note 10, and the Microsoft connection

  Posted on August 7, 2019 at 16:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Looks like Samsung is going to start selling a Windows laptop that works with a Snapdragon ARM processor. Details from Mehedi on Thurrott.com

  There isn’t anything standout of the design of the device, and it’s pretty simple for a laptop. But it still has a pretty nice and simple design.

  It’ll arrive in September with 8GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, 23 hours of battery life, 13.3-inch display, priced from $999. Expect to hear a LOT of chest-beating from the Microsoft-centric sites.

  Let’s just hope it doesn’t come with Win10 S. And that it doesn’t ship with Microsoft’s drivers. <snark /off>

  UPDATE: Follow-up by Mehedi with more details of all the Samsung-Microsoft announcements. Looks like the Note 10 will ship with a load of MS software.

  Hardware Samsung

• Samsung Dex – what Continuum should’ve been

  Posted on March 29, 2017 at 16:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  Credit: IDG.tv

  I rarely get blown away by a demo, but this is one you gotta see.

  Based on this InfoWorld review (which admittedly looks like a demo), the Dex docking station is a portable puck with ports. Slide your Galaxy S8 into the top, attach a monitor and keyboard, and you end up in a Chromebook-like environment, where your Galaxy/Android apps are just a click away.

  The phone’s in the middle of it all. Unplug your phone, and all of your apps are where you left them.

  IF it ends up working this way – that’s a big if – Samsung and Google have just out-Scroogled Microsoft. If Dex will run the Android version of Office, Chrome, and all of my Google Apps, I’ll be first in line to buy one.

  Google built the Android operating system “up” – adding tablet support and bringing along all the Google Apps. Microsoft’s trying to build Windows “down” – trying to tack Universal Windows Platform apps onto an old operating system.

  Right now we have maybe two dozen UWP apps — perhaps a half dozen of them worth running. The Google Play Store? Pshaw. In the early running, one of the approaches is winning, and the other remains vapor.

  Take a look. With your Windows-centric glasses on, tell me what you think.

  Other Dex, Samsung

• Samsung seeks ban of iPhone 5 sales in Europe

  Posted on September 21, 2011 at 21:40 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The Samsung-Apple wars are heating up.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Apple, iPhone 5, Samsung

• Apple doesn’t need Samsung any more

  Posted on August 11, 2011 at 20:54 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  At least, that’s what I surmise, reading the tea leaves.

  And if I’m right, it’s good news for iPhone 5 and iPad 3.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Apple, iPad, iPhone, Samsung

• Apple vs Samsung vs Apple

  Posted on April 19, 2011 at 22:10 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  What if you sued your key supplier?

  What if you were sued by – and decided to counter-sue – your second largest customer?

  What if all of the legal fireworks exploded but you were still buying things from, and supplying products to, your major customer?

  See my InfoWorld Tech Watch post.

  Other Apple, Samsung