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21 unusual facts about SAMSUNG


2003 PBA Invitational Championship

The 2003 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Samsung-Invitational Championship, is the second conference of the 2003 PBA season.

2003 PBA Reinforced Conference

The 2003 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) PBA Reinforced Conference, or known as the 2003 Samsung-PBA Reinforced Conference, is the third conference of the 2003 PBA season.

Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup

Samsung is the main sponsor and presenting partner of the tournament.

Big Brother Africa 6

There is a viewers voting competition every week in partnership with Samsung.

Cavalry Ground

The main boulevard of Cavalry Ground (also known as Jinnah Flyover Road) is a major commercial area with designer outlets, boutiques, banks (including Royal Bank of Scotland), bakeries, electronics shops (including Samsung and Sony Centre) and supermarkets.

Copa Movistar

The Copa Movistar is a surfing competition, currently presented by Rip Curl and Samsung, a 2-Star World Qualification Series event held at the San Bartolo District in Lima, Peru.

Display motion blur

Samsung uses strobed backlighting as part of their "Clear Motion Rate" technology.

Gentlemen Hall

In 2013, the band's song "Sail Into the Sun" was featured in Target and Samsung commercials internationally.

Harte-Hanks

Also, Harte Hanks provides customer service/technical support for selected products of major companies such as Microsoft, FedEx, Samsung and Apple Inc.

Image file formats

Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) specification is an attempt at standardizing a raw image format to be used by cameras, or for archival storage of image data converted from undocumented raw image formats, and is used by several niche and minority camera manufacturers including Pentax, Leica, and Samsung.

Lal Tip

Samsung and Channel I announced its assosiation with Impress Telefilm Limited for their film Lal Tip.

PictureBox Films

PictureBox online is available as a free app from iTunes for Apple iOS devices and on Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players.

PlayStation Portable hardware

The Samsung (previously Sharp) branded TFT LCD screen measures 110 mm (4.3 in) diagonal with a 16:9 ratio and a 480×272 pixel resolution capable of 16.77 million colors.

Samsung DP900

The DP900A7A-S01 is an all-in-one desktop computer with a 27" 3D display developed by Samsung.

Sanxing

Its name means "three stars" and is the same characters as used (when using hanja) to write the tradename Samsung.

Silver nanoparticles

Samsung has created and marketed a material called Silver Nano, that includes silver nanoparticles on the surfaces of household appliances.

UHAPI Forum

The UHAPI Forum was established in November 2004 by Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Access Co. Ltd. and the Digital TV Industry Alliance of China (DTVIA).

Universal Home API

The UHAPI Forum was established in November 2004 by Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Access Co. Ltd. and the Digital TV Industry Alliance of China (DTVIA).

Walter Dorwin Teague

The privately held, Seattle-based company is most commonly recognized today for its work in consumer electronics and aviation, with clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Panasonic, and Boeing, and projects such as the Xbox and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Westford, Massachusetts

By the 1990s, Westford was home to offices for Red Hat, Samsung, Seagate, Iris Associates, Visual Solutions, and many other technology firms, most located along Massachusetts Route 110, parallel to I-495.

William Morris Endeavor

WME's Commercials Division helps partner clients with notable brands like AT&T, Apple, Dior, Samsung, Gucci, Mercedes, Pepsi and Absolut Vodka.


1996 Bournemouth International

The 1996 Bournemouth International (also known as the 1996 Samsung Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the West Hants Tennis Club in Bournemouth in England and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

Aspect Co.

Aspect has also worked with the following companies; Sega, Takara Tomy, D3 Publisher, Square, Tec Toy, Banpresto, Takara, Disney Interactive Studios, and even Samsung.

BusyBox

On December 14, 2009, a new lawsuit was filed naming fourteen defendants including Best Buy, JVC, Samsung and others.

Cobasys

On July 14, 2009, the sale of Cobasys to SB LiMotive Co. Ltd., an electric vehicle battery joint venture between Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Robert Bosch GmbH, was announced.

Dineo Ranaka

Due to her shows success she won the favor of clients such as Love Life, Sanlam, Samsung, Motorola, Vodacom, Cadbury and Levis, just to name a few, requesting that she specifically run and drive their on-air campaigns.

Eilidh MacQueen

Her early career involved a litany of modelling jobs, including FHM Thailand in which she was voted 25th sexiest female in the world, catwalk for La Perla, Yves Saint Lauren, Lanvin and Chanel, catalogue work for Motorola, Samsung, Christian Dior, commercials for Panasonic and Toyota and videos for Thai music acts Joey Boy and 'Jiwa'.

Energy Saving Trust Recommended

Over 250 large, medium and small companies are currently members of the scheme including Hitachi Digital Media Group, Sony, Epson, John Lewis Partnership, Home Retail Group, Next, Samsung, Beko, Glen Dimplex, Baxi, Electrolux, Pure radios, Indesit, Knauf Insulation, Panasonic, Smeg and Aga Rangemaster.

Estelle Lefébure

Over the years, she has appeared in advertisements for Guess?, Cartier, Christian Dior, Revlon, Lord & Taylor, and Samsung.

Inter Park

Large international companies, such as LG and Samsung, sell their newest products and offer services on EBay and Yahoo! using competitive auctions and fixed-priced storefronts.

Jeremy David Fisher

As a Production Assistant, Jeremy worked on sets for commercials for clients such as Wendy's, Samsung Televisions, Head Tennis Co. and a Japanese clothier with the cast of Cirque Du Soleil.

Manoto 1

Manoto1 is partly funded by corporate sponsorships and has been sponsored in the past by companies that sell consumer products inside Iran, including Samsung and LG, according to Marjan TV's website and Clarus Design's Meddin.

Michaël Boumendil

Michaël Boumendil (born in Sarcelles France on 25 April 1971), is the creator of the audio identities and sound design for brands such as Alstom, Baccarat, Chanel, Europ Assistance, Fnac, France Telecom, Jacques Vabre, Michelin, PSA Peugeot Citroën, SNCF, Société Générale, Samsung and others.

NCIX

Also in 2011, NCIX was the first to open an official Samsung Partnership store in North America, located in Aberdeen Centre, City of Richmond, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.

Pentax

Some Pentax lenses are also rebranded and sold as Samsung Schneider Kreuznach D-Xenon and D-Xenogon lenses for Samsung DSLRs.

Photronics Inc

Ltd., Freescale Semiconductor, Global Foundries, HannStar Display Corp., IM Flash Technologies, Inotera Memories, Jenoptik AG, LG Electronics, Magnachip Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Nanya Technology Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation, Novatek Microelectronics Corp., ON Semiconductor Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, United Microelectronics Corp.

Ragheb Alama

Of the companies that endorsed Ragheb and featured him as part of their promotions including United Nations, Starbucks, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Malaysian Ministry of Tourism, Malaysia Airlines, Middle East Airlines, Persol, The Pearl-Qatar.

Raj Singh Arora

Arora has done commercials for companies such as like Tvs Scooty, Samsung Guru Mobile, Reliance Big TV, Candi Biscuits, Mountain Dew, Mc Donald's, Philips Led, McVitie's Biscuits, Nestle Munch, Wheel Detergent, Anne French and Centuary Mattress.

Samsung Galaxy S II

Rogers launched the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, launching in Fall 2011, soon after its LTE Launch in Toronto.

Samsung Galaxy S III

After inviting reporters in mid-April, Samsung launched the Galaxy S III during the Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, on 3 May 2012, instead of unveiling their products earlier in the year during either the World Mobile Congress or Consumer Electronics Show.

Samsung Global Scholarship Program

The significance of the program can also be seen from the wide range of students who, as it was already in the first years, came from the leading companies including Cheil Communications, Amore Pacific, Woori Bank, POSCO, SK, Kyobo, Everland, Bosch, KTF and several Samsung subsidiaries.

Samsung iMarketKorea

Its customer base has expanded beyond the Samsung Group and iMarketKorea currently provides services for over 349 clients including the CJ Corporation, Hansol, Rockwell Automation, ING, Standard Chartered, Woori Bank and Union Steel.

Samsung SGH-T919

The Samsung Behold features the music video "Somewhere Else" by YouTube celebrity, Jodie Rivera a.k.a. VenetianPrincess.

See-through display

It is a technology that has been around for a decade or two, but only this year is it being incorporated by companies such as Samsung and Planar Systems into consumer products like handheld devices, televisions, and other technology.

SEMAT

The initiative is also supported by corporations such as IBM, Microsoft, Ericsson, ABB and Samsung, and academic institutions such as Peking University, Chalmers University of Technology, Florida Atlantic University, Wits University and KAIST.

Simon Hang-Bock Rhee

He was Project Manager for Hanjin Heavy Industries (formerly Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation) in Korea and Hong Kong (1976–1990), General Manager of Architectural Marketing Team and Project Manager for various international construction sites including the Pebble Bay Condominiun and Pulau Seraya Power Station in Singapore, as well as the Incheon International Airport for Samsung C&T Corporation (1990–2008).

The MobileStore

The MobileStore retails mobiles of domestic and international brands like Apple, HTC, BlackBerry, Samsung, Micromax, Maxx, Karbonn Mobiles, Motorola Spice, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone and others.

UAProf

UAProf production for a device is voluntary: for GSM devices, the UAProf is normally produced by the vendor of the device (e.g. Nokia, Samsung, LG) whereas for CDMA / BREW devices it's more common for the UAProf to be produced by the telecommunications company.

WiBro

February 10, 2006: Telecom Italia, the dominant telephony and internet service provider in Italy, together with Korean Samsung Electronics, has demonstrated to the public a WiBro network service on the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, with downlink speed of 10 Mbit/s and uplink speed of some hundreds of kbit/s even in movement up to 120 km/h.

Windows Mobile 5.0

Windows Mobile 5.0 requires at least 64 MBs of ROM (it's advisable to have 64 MBs of RAM), and the device must run an ARM compatible processor such as the Intel XScale or the Samsung and Texas Instruments ARM compatibles.