Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 5, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Apple Inc.’s rollout of a new version of iPhone 4 rather than the major redesign that many techies were expecting is being portrayed in South Korea as good news for the country’s big electronics companies.
Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 5, 2011 at 2:40 am PT
Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it would try to stop the sale of Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S in France and Italy, aiming to use the product’s rollout as leverage against Apple in a broader fight over the design of smartphones and tablet computers.
Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on September 23, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
As the legal battle between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. heads back to courts in South Korea and Australia in coming days, it appears that Samsung is trying to sow confusion among courts world-wide over different types of patents.
Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 28, 2011 at 11:45 pm PT
Samsung Electronics Co. said its second-quarter profit fell 18 percent amid weak demand and lower prices for consumer electronics broadly, though rising sales of smartphones led its cellphone business to more than double in profitability.
Evan Ramstad and Jung-Ah Lee, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 1, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it will fold its flat-panel display business back into its semiconductor business, uniting its component manufacturing operations just when the display business appears likely to be unprofitable for some time to come.
Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 17, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Ro Jae-song, a materials science professor here, has spent the past eight years researching a display technology called OLED, which is now used for some high-end cellphone screens.
Mr. Ro does contract research for South Korea’s two big electronics makers, Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co., on a difficult problem: How to build OLED screens big enough for large televisions.
Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 3, 2011 at 2:36 pm PT
After 3-D TV failed to excite consumers last year, manufacturers are betting that following the app-laden path of smartphones and tablet computers will fatten up what have been ultraslim profit margins.
