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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's No.2 handset manufacturer, plans to roll out a new version of its flagship smartphone Galaxy S in South Korea this month through KT Corp, the telecommunications operator said on Friday.

U.S. stocks posted modest losses Thursday after another major earthquake rattled Japan's northeastern coast, but retailers climbed following surprisingly strong March sales.

Last month, Samsung revealed its Series 9 laptops, a line of computers so thin and light that they seem born out of Cupertino itself.

Motorola's Xoom was crowned the undisputed king of tablets at CES 2011 but little did Motorola realize that the spotlight would last only a month.

Elpida Memory Inc said on Thursday it has developed a 4-gigabit DRAM chip for smart phones, joining bigger rival Samsung Electronics as the only producers of the large capacity power-saving memory chip.

Though, Xoom has comparable features and pricing to the high end version of Apple's iPad 2. The question now becomes, will the high end of the tablet market keep pace with the low end?

Profits at Samsung Electronics are set to rebound on a recovery in the memory chip market after operating profit fell to its lowest level in almost two years in the first quarter on tumbling flat screen and TV prices.

Samsung Electronics estimated its January-March operating profit at 2.9 trillion won ($2.7 billion), lower than the consensus forecast, in its first earnings update since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Orchid Cellmark, Westport Innovations, Golar LNG, Hansen Medical, and Immunomedics. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: American Superconductor, Randgold Resources, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, ASML Holding, and A-Power Energy Generation Systems.

Apple proved it again that they are invincible. Apple iPad 2 sales beat the expectation to become another running success. iPad 2 had hit the market on 11 March and within a week surpassed earlier figures to reach one million units in sales.

Google, Facebook and Youtube rank as first, second and third in web globalization, says a report from research firm Common Sense Advisory.

Oppenheimer has upgraded shares of Broadcom to outperform from perform citing strong growth profile, management's stated efforts to pursue profitable growth, a more disciplined operating expense and compensation strategy.

LG Thrill 4G smartphone features are right up there with Motorola's Atrix 4G

Texas Instruments' major deal for National Semiconductor has drawn criticism and praise.

Apple's iPad 2 could face some production issues due to shortage of touch screens as some of the producers of those distinct screens were hurt by the Japan earthquake

Apple's iPad 2 topped the charts among the 10 most-promising tablet computers, according to ConsumerReports.

Sony's Honeycomb tablet will be available by end of the summer.

Apple will add an 8 megapixel (MP) rear-facing camera in its upcoming iPhone 5 which would be supplied by Sony, suggesting that Apple's partnership with camera sensor provider OmniVision is ending.

Most tablet makers are building the wrong field of dreams and at least one CEO has got himself separated from his company for it. It is plain for all to see that Apple's field of dreams is their network of dedicated Apple stores worldwide.This might even be the reason why Apple will own the tablet space for the foreseeable future. Richard Shim, senior analyst at Displaysearch wrote in this blog about the exigencies of selling a product like a table through a traditional retail chain such ...

The amount of competitive new launches near-term is making it a little bit tougher for Motorola Mobility, especially for its Xoom tablet.

Apple has given a big lead to forecasters as to what the next iPhone will carry when it launched the iPad 2 in March. The other most important lead to predict the future iPhone 5 is the competition in the current market. Post-CES 2011, HTC, Motorola and Samsung have launched some powerful and slender Android devices, which have set the critical minimum standard that Apple will have to reach to make a mark with its new iPhone 5.