March 29, 2012
Following much speculation , Samsung has released a ‘value pack’ upgrade for Galaxy S devices which allows users of range to enjoy some of the benefits of the latest Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) of the Android operating system. Samsung has been actively rolling out ICS , aka Android 4.0, starting in Europe and Korea last week but this new update, for Korea only so far, is open to owners of devices from the Galaxy S range, which is not eligible for the latest flavor. Rumor of plans for the value pack were dismissed by Samsung in January, before an industry insider tipped them to arrive at the beginning of the month
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Samsung has confirmed that the memory chip production plant that it is planning to develop in China will cost $7 billion, making it the largest overseas project that the Korean electronics giant has undertaken to date. Economic Times reports that the South Korean firm has revealed that it has secured an initial $2.3 billion in investment for the project, which will it estimates will cost $7 billion in total. Last month, Samsung revealed details of the the operations, which is its largest overseas investment and will be based in the northwestern city of Xian, but the total cost of investment has been revealed for the first time today. Read more [...]
[This post is by Ellie Powers , a product manager on the Google Play team. — Tim Bray] As your apps have gotten more successful, more people have joined your team. 
Samsung is releasing a Value Pack for the first-generation Galaxy S in Korea that will serve as the company's substitute for a full-fledged Android 4.0 upgrade . The company is cramming some of the headline features of Ice Cream Sandwich into the phone's current Gingerbread build. 
LG stole our hearts at CES this year with its amazing 55-inch OLED TV and now it's about to make a play for our wallets too. 
[This post is by Debashish Chatterjee, Krishna Atkuru, and Ellie Powers of the Google Play Publisher Site team. 
We've heard rumblings for some time that Steve Jobs initiated talks with Samsung back in 2010 in an attempt to head off a patent infringement suit against the Korean device manufacturer, but the extent of those talks are just now coming to light. In a recent filing in California federal court, Apple details the negotiations it pursued with Samsung between July and September of 2010 — several months prior to the initiation of patent litigation in April 2011. In an attempt to bolster allegations that Samsung was fully aware of its patents and was "willfully infringing," Apple outlined its 2010 negotiations with Samsung in the filing 
Codinator is an efficient graphical user interface (GUI) design program made by South Korean startup Wit Studio . Until now, the software has only supported the niche and fairly unrecognized Windows Mobile market in its native South Korea, but it has expanded its international support and is now aiming to reach new platforms. The first Windows Phone device, the Nokia Lumia 710, was released in Korea at the end of last year on December 26 and, including it, around 24,000 projects have been made using the first version of Codinator 
