Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is launching one of the world's first MP3 portable music players using Bluetooth technology to replace cables. And if you thought the boom-box days ended with the emergence of MP3 players, think again: the company has designed an MP3 player with a slide-out stereo speaker system.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a cell phone that runs on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system and includes a hard-disk drive. The new handset will be shown this week at the Cebit show in Hanover, Germany, the company said. The SGH-I300 offers 3G bytes of storage space, which is considerably more than that available in any cell phone currently on the market, and is Samsung's second phone to feature a hard-drive.
European data protection watchdogs have played down reports that they might add music-playing software to a list of PC devices they fear breach E.U. data protection laws.