Samsung Wave up for a T3 2010 Phone Of The Year Nomination!

Make sure you show your love for the Wave at this year's T3 Gadget Award. The super sexy Wave has only gone and been nominated for phone of the year!  

Siemens AG will sell its assembly systems business--Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems (SEAS)--to ASM Pacific Technology.

ASM Pacific Technology (Registered as 522 in Hong Kong stock Exchange) is a subsidiary of ASM International NV of the Netherlands. With the move, ASM Pacific technology (ASMPT) would be the best partner triggering new synergy to bring up the SEAS by means of ASM’s latest Technology on control and vision, expanding its product portfolio by entering into the surface mount technology (SMT) equipment business. Thus this move will likely create more revenue for companies.

SEAS, which has around 1,200 employees, is the world’s Third leading suppliers of surface assembly systems for the electronics industry after Panasonic and Fuji.. ''Due to the lack of internal synergies, SEAS is no longer a core business of Siemens,'' according to the German firm.
Munich, Germany is to remain the central location for production, testing and research at SEAS for time being, who knows when will they use a much cost effective manufacturing facilities of ASMPT to produce the part , thus to lower the cost and increase the competitiveness against the Japanese Rival, who knows after a period of three years, Siemens Siplace SMT Equipment will be the World No.1 in terms of profitability and Revenue?

ASM International also reported its quarterly results. It reported second quarter 2010 net sales of 302.4 million euros ($392.6 million), up 38% quarter to quarter and up 153% year to year.

Net earnings of the second quarter of 2010 were 47.5 million euros ($61.7 million), as compared to net earnings of 4.2 million euros ($5.5 million) in the first quarter of 2010 and a net loss of 55.7 million euros ($72.3 million) for the second quarter of 2009.

In a statement, Chuck del Prado, president and CEO of ASM International, said, "ASMI's second quarter performance reflects strong growth in both our wafer processing and assembly and packaging operations. Our front-end business returned to profitability, we reached the cost reduction targets as set out in our global restructuring programme, and we experienced an acceleration of orders compared to prior quarters.

In the yesterday ‘s RTHK2 Radio interview , WK Lee, CEO of ASMPT had announced that In back-end products responsible by ASMPT, met group turnover record of US$537 Millions for first two quarters. Record new order booking of US$908M, a strong surge of 73..5 % of the preceding six months.

on 28 July, ASM PT has been officially surprassed the turnover of US1B. With the new acquisition, and we would speculate that ASMPT will be setting a new target for a 2B Company. It would create a vibrancy to the SMT and the IC/LED assembly Industry.  Let's watch out.

Feverip
PS
ASMPT has been the World's No.1 Semiconductor Equipment Supplier since 2002.

Free bada presentations - YouTube - badadevelopers's Channel

YouTube - badadevelopers's Channel (The best bits from the recent London Developer Day - minus the Ice Cream!)

World's Most Frightening Dolls

Here's another creepy doll beside Katja Doll, Chucky and this World's Creepiest Doll which is posted before on Crazy World.

Would you buy this dolls for your lovely kids? well i think if you love your children you won't buy them a dolls like this or take them to the island of the dolls one of the most horrifying places in the world.

These are the most frightening and weird looking dolls I have ever seen. I would not like to have one of these toys at home, because every time I look at these pictures I have chills running down my spine.
















Source : Izismile

Free Samsung Wave Apps Chart (Week 31)

This week’s Top Five Global Samsung Apps have a distinctly sporty feel with the following taking the lead - 

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The journalist's secret

Since I'm still new to this world of full-time journalism, people back in Ontario occasionally check in with the Thompson Citizen to see what I'm writing about. In my parents' case, they read it every week. Which means they then want to talk to me about all the stuff I wrote for that paper.

Which is all well and good except for one little thing: I've forgotten most of it.

It's journalism's dirty little secret, and it's even more true here than it was at The Sputnik. By the time the newspaper comes out, the last thing any reporter wants to do is read it.

An example for you. Yesterday was Monday. By yesterday, I was already writing things and saving them with an August 4 publication date. I'll get them back from my editor mid-week, probably look at them a couple more times by the end of the week as I'm seeing how well the paper is filling up, and then read every single word again Tuesday morning when I'm proofreading.

So by the time the paper is dropped into my lap Wednesday morning, I've already seen the layouts of the pages, read every single article (multiple times if it's mine), and really have nothing left to be surprised at. My mind's already moved on to the next week, and when someone asks me about something in that day's paper, it feels like I'm reaching back into the distant past.

It was the same thing with The Sputnik - I knew what everybody was writing, I'd already read most of it, so I couldn't devour the paper the way I did before I started writing for it.

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While I'm revealing journalistic secrets, I might as well include a hat-tip to people who do so in a much better and much funnier fashion.

Stuff Journalists Like was first brought to my attention a few months ago, then I promptly forgot about it until my editor e-mailed me a link this morning. It is exactly what you'd expect - explanations of why journalists behave like the snobby, disheveled bastards we are.

Overheard in the Newsroom is journalism's answer to PostSecret, Texts from Last Night, and so forth.

Lastly, the new Google Image Search is striking, but I think ultimately awesome.

--Ryan

Free bada book “An Introduction to bada: A Developer's Guide” to download!

(Drum Roll Please!) You can now download the first chapter of our free e-book - “An Introduction to bada: A Developer's Guide” completely free of charge!

The team has been working incredibly hard on this and all of us at Samsung Mobile Innovator are very proud.

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Enhance your network application development experience with Sockets | bada Developers

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Casual Connect Seattle 2010

Last week, Samsung demo’d the latest handsets on the market, the Galaxy S and the Wave, at Casual Connect Seattle 2010. The conference brought together over 2000 members of the casual gaming industry to look at the latest trends in casual gaming design, monetization, movement to mobility and marketing. After an inspirational keynote from Ed Viesturs, a world renowned mountain climber, discussions continued onto topics including the future of social gaming and how to bring games to the ever changing mobile environment. Samsung’s own Martin Tannerfors, Director Samsung Mobile Innovator, brought insight to casual gaming developers in his session about the differences between writing mobile applications in HTML 5 vs. the native environment.

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Omnivore Boy who Eat Anything

A Omnivore boy who eat anything from Indonesia. this poor boy could eat anything that he saw such as raw meat, powder, toothpaste a living insect and many things. It reminds me of the Chinese girls who eat dirt everyday. here's a story about this poor boy.

This is really a Strange phenomenon Eri, 7-year-old boy, from Sambiroto Hamlet, Jugo village, Mojo district, Kediri East Java Indonesia can be called a omnivores boy, because this kid hooked to eat and drink everything he saw. eri is listed as the fourth son of the couple Nuhari (44) and Warsiah (42) are known to have a rarity since the last two years. Since childhood Eri known to have a peculiarities, such as he is really happy when sprinkled by powder and eucalyptus oil.

“Before, he only happy when sprinkled with powder, but now he can even eat it,” said Warsiah. In addition to powder, eri also likes to eat soap, toothpaste, charcoal, incense, raw meat, red onion and white onion, drank the eucalyptus oil and used oil. This condition forced Warsiah to quit working, because she have to spend some extra time to keep her child.

“He can also eat a life insect that he caught and drink the used oil if he don’t get caught” added Warsiah. Warsiah said that she don’t know what is the caused for this weird behavior on her son eri. She just said “When he was one years old, a blood coming out with his feces until he reach 3 months. he’s often get a fever and seizures”

This peculiar conditions aggravated Eri on his ability to speak, until the age of 7 years he has not shown signs that he could speak. This is different from its physical growth, which occurred as the children on his age.

“Actually he’s not dumb, because occasionally he can say the father. But yes, if they prefer not to talk because it does not connect smoothly to talk,” said Warsiah.

currently eri spent his daily activity with strict supervision of his mother, while her father worked as a laborer and rubber tapping. Ironically supervision must be made very tight, because if eri don’t found his favorite goods on his home then the goods on neighbor house would be his next target.

Wanted: My Globe Super One

Yes, I am looking for my Super One. I have been constantly in search, even around the Globe.

It's no easy task. But when I find her, I'll make her my Globe Super One. :)


Globe Telecoms plan subscribers will surely rejoice with Globe's latest super offer - the Globe Super One.

Super One is Globe’s new service that offers unlimited call and text to a designated number of your choice for as low

Mystical Katja Dolls from Russia

Still remember about the scary island of the dolls or the creepy toys which is posted before in Crazy World? we have another creepy doll stories here about Katja Doll from Russia.

Katja name was made in 1730 from one of the tsar mistress, it was told that the mistress was pregnant, like the other mistress dreams, this tsar mistress hope that she will gave birth a boy for the king, but unfortunately the mistress birth a defect girl baby. Then these baby was burned alive.

After these incident, the mother of a poor baby made a doll with the baby ash mixed with a porcelain and ceramics.

It was said that this Dolls are kept from generation to generation in Russia, and closely guarded. Allegedly because the doll can bring a curse, from newborn babies who suffer a fire burned.

There's a mystical stories about these dolls, it was said that if you stare at this dolls more than 20 seconds the curse katja dolls will blink. and if the dolls blink at you that means that there will be something bad happens to you. do you have enough brave to stare at this dolls more than 20 seconds??

Previously someone sell this dolls on ebay but his current thread was closed by ebay because ebay reported that there's so many weird incidents happen due to this mystical katja dolls.

Cat Prin - Cat Clothing Designer

Cat surely was a cute and funny animal moreover if you dress your cat with a funny costume, there's a special tailor for cats in japan. the name of these cat clothing designer was cat prin. you can dress your lovely cat with funny costume. here's the website of those Cat fashion designer. http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/english/#usagi. you can find many cute cat fashion such as hat for cat, blouse for cat and many more.

Cat Prin is a real cat tailor who believes cats look even more adorable when they’re dressed in funny costumes. Their models are indeed some of the cutest cats I’ve ever seen, all the cats on this website looks like the cat on Japanese anime.but the weirdest thing about his Cat Prin is the English translation of his website:

1. You need to dress a cat.

2. If a family and a cat become fortunate, you will take a commemorative photo!

3. If it finishes taking a photograph, you will make it remove clothes from a cat immediately. You will say then, without forgetting the language of gratitude to a cat.

Apparently he’s trying to say his clothes are mainly intended for taking photos, and should be taken off shortly after, but that’s pretty tough to say in English, when you’re using Google Translate. it seems japan also has a unique taste in fashion and many things. here's the funny cat costume from cat prin.

Samsung Top Apps (Week 30)

Thank you for all your feedback and comments from last week - please keep them coming! This week, I’ve been making lots of funny screeching noises as I get carried away playing “Need For Speed™ Shift” - be quick to make sure you’re one of the lucky 500,000 who get the game TOTALLY FOR FREE!!!

This week’s Top Five Downloadable bada Apps - 

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Hello, world!

I'm starting to settle down into the rhythm of the job, starting to get familiar with the town, starting to feel I don't need to introduce myself every time I make contact with somebody.

But one lingering question remains - what the heck do I say when I answer the phone?

At Chapters it was easy. "Good [morning/afternoon/evening], Chapters Kitchener, Ryan speaking, how can I help you?". Sometimes I'd leave off the first, third, or last parts because I felt it was too much to say at once. But it got the message across, and it worked, because most of the time, the caller was looking for help from whoever answered the phone. We were all interchangeable.

But now? If somebody calls me, it's because they're looking specifically for me. Or sometimes, the previous holder of my job. Or, on rare occasions, anybody at all (it doesn't help that the switchboard lists my title and extension *before* the news editor's).

So, if I give my name, it makes sense, because then people will know they dialed the right number. So I've used "Hello, Ryan speaking" and a simple "Ryan Flanagan" already.

A lot of people up here, even businesses, seem to just answer with a simple "Hello". So I've tried that.

Not really liking the habit of using my own name, I've also tried - keeping in mind that very rarely has a caller talked to somebody else and then been sent to me - "Thompson Citizen, Ryan speaking", and, for the ultimate in pretentiousness, "Thompson Citizen, news desk".

I still haven't found a greeting I'm comfortable with, though. Any suggestions?

--Ryan

Toshiba Lighttech, Sharp and Panasonics are the top three LED light bulb Makers in Japan

May 2010’s LED light bulb sales volume is 55 times more than the July 2009

GFK Japan 2 July announced of the LED sales volume in the home domestic stores in Japan.
The Sales volume of the LED light bulb is 55 times of the May 2009. Whereas the Sales amount is 48 times higher in the same period. Sharp, Toshiba Light, and Panasonics occupies most of the the sales amount of light bulbs.
The top sales item is the Toshiba’s LDA6N which was launched in 5 March.
Other three models fill up the 3rd, 8th and 10th top sales items. Sharp’s DL-L601N launched in 1st Aug 2009 was the 2nd place, Sharp’s DL-J40AL three models took up the 4th, 5th, and 6th position. 7th Position is Panasonics’ LDA7D-A1 and LDA6L-E17 is the 9th position.
The Adoption rate is high and I foresee another two digits growth in 2011.

Feverip

World Largest Giant Origami Solar-Powered LED Crane

This year’s Coachella music festival in Indio, could use- a giant origami crane at the entrance. And it’s lit up with LEDs and powered by a solar system. Built by LA-based Crimson Collective, the sculpture, called Ascension, was inspired by the Japanese tradition of folding a thousand cranes in order to receive a wish. Thousands of fans enter the festival where they will pass under its welcoming wings, and be part of the collective intention of the crane.


The bird weighs 35,000 pounds with a wingspan of 150 feet. Ascension is a 45 foot tall living art installation made out of modular aluminum tubes and covered with a white mesh fabric called Textilene. The Crane is lit up with thousand of HB LEDs…Another Magnificent decorative structure built by latest lighting technology….

Feverip

Creative Painting on Helmets

Bored with your old style motorcycle helmets? why don't you try this cool helmets style? all of this helmets has a creative painting that will make you laugh. there's a watermelon helmets, brain helmets and many more.

Generally helmets was used as a head protectors for all bikers, motorcycle helmet is a type of protective headgear used by motorcycle riders. The primary goal of a motorcycle helmet is motorcycle safety - to protect the rider's head during impact, thus preventing or reducing head injury or saving the rider's life. Some helmets provide additional conveniences, such as ventilation, face shields, ear protection, intercom. several country has their own standards for this motorcycle helmets.

So are you looking for a full face helmets or a open face helmets? this could be a great accessories for every bikers.

Wishing for a Samsung PX2370 LED Monitor

With the number of new desktop monitors coming into the market, comparing monitor graphic quality is increasingly becoming relevant. If you demand high graphic quality and exceptional performance from your monitor, Samsung PX2370 LED Monitor is poised not to disappoint.

If your work involves photo editing, video post-production, digital illustration, graphic design, or serious gaming, Samsung

Wei Feng, The China No. 1 LED City

According to Latest Shan Dong news on the latest Wei Feng High Tech LED general illumination project was approved by China as the special National Grade Semi Conductor illumination as the First City. After Wei Feng City has been granted the Ten City Ten Thousand Lamp Project “十城万盏” last year. Which is the Only City was granted this approval in the Whole Shan Dong province.

Wei Feng has been support by these major LED players such as AOD (Advanced Optronic Devices China Co. Ltd 中微光电子, Inspur Huaguang Optoelectronics Co浪潮华光, Geortek 歌尔光电…Specially AOD who had spent effort in building those Street Lamp for Wei Feng City.

Wei Feng City has install 30,000 Street Lamps and will be attaining 100,000 Lamps in 2011 this ensure Wei Feng City will be the Hottest City For LED in China under the Ten City Ten Thousand Lamp Project “十城万盏”

Wei Feng City is one of the four fundamental programme in Shan Dong Province. And Shan Dong has a target to make Wei Feng to be the China LED City by supporting these Players such as Inspur HuaGuang and other LED manufacturers by incentives and numerous subsidization in land and power resources. And Government would like to further supporting from them and make Government is the largest buyer for the LED Street Lamps. Moreover other Cities are also spending millions for inverting for building LED factory using the best in the LED equipment in the industry for their LED manufacturing. I have seen one whole new factory in the South part of Shan Xiang that they have 400 acres of land with total investment of over 1 Billion of RMB in the factory, We soon will see their first LED street lamp and Back light unit will be rolled off from the production line in End of August.


Haier, a China giant of Air Con, Refrigerators and domestic Electronics appliance colossus in China is building their LED manufacturing line in Dong Ying City and that will soon be one of the major LED supplier in the Shan Dong area. Their initial product is the LED back light unit for Haier LCD TVs.
These are the recent city outlooks whilst I was there last week.
I am looking forward to see ing Wei Feng City to be the largest China LED City in 2011.

Feverip

Find us at Casual Connect

Join us at Casual Connect in Seattle, USA (July 20 to July 22) to hang out with the best companies and people casual gaming has to offer. Come and explore the Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Wave running the leading mobile platforms, Android (Galaxy S) and bada (Wave) at our booth.
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