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SAMSUNG B7620 GIORGIO ARMANI

The famous mobile manufactures Samsung again surprised their customers with the announcement of their new mobile Samsung B7620. Samsung and Giorgio Arman announced their new device. This phone is powered by windows mobile 6.5. The phone attracted by the customers with its unique design and style. It is another amazing Samsung handset that comes with Giorgio Armani’s logo on it. It comes with a 3.5-inch AMOLED full touch screen display, a QWERTY keyboard. This phone is similar to the Nokia N97 mini in design. The new mobile phone will come in a price range of around $1,035.The new handset has an ARM1176 CPU running at 800MHz coupled with 192MB of RAM. The company authorities said that the Giorgio Armani-Samsung Smart phone is a demonstration of their commitment to offering customers cutting-edge technology in products, along with exclusive design and fashion. It also features a microSD card slot, 8GB of internal memory, GPS, Wi-Fi, 5-megapixel camera, a side-sliding keyboard etc. Its other features include the 3.5-inch touchscreen features a 800 x 480 pixel resolution with 16M colors, measures 118.5 x 58.3 x 16.4mm and weighs 164g, battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh, samsung S3C6410 800MHz CPU, OS, Windows Mobile 6.1 professional, blue tooth, v2.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi:802.11 b/g, DLNA, 3G: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps etc. The black and bronze colored casing contains a wealth of other features too.

SAMSUNG

‘Samsung’, one of the largest electronics companies ,its headquarters is situated in Seocho Samsung Town in Seoul, South Korea. The Samsung group of the company was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chull. In 1951, it was incorporated as Samsung Corporation. The global market leader Samsung’s important brands are Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering & Construction. The Samsung electronics company was founded in 1969 and this company originally manufacturing electronic appliances such as TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners and washers. The company had more than 60 products, including DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory and hard drives, digital displays such as LCD displays, plasma displays and LED displays, home electronics such as TVs, DVD players, Blu-ray players, home cinema systems, set-top boxes and projectors, mobile devices such as mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and camcorders, computing products such as monitors, laptops, UMPCs, CD and DVD Drives, laser printers and fax machines and home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, microwaves, ovens, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners. The company was founded a major global construction company in 1974. The company is a top rated electronic and IT brand in various reports. In 2006, Business Week rated Samsung as 20th on the Top 100 global brands and the Number 2 in the electronics industry. Business Week also ranked the company as 20 in a ranking of the “Top 100 Most Innovative Companies”. In January 2007, Brand Finance ranked the company as the Number 1 global brand in electronics. The company’s mobile phones became the world leader, and the year by year it introduced new model handset in the world . From 1990 until today, Samsung continues to make a great history in mobile phone Industry.

ELINOR OSTROM

An American political scientist, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in economics along with Oliver Williamson for their research on economic administration. Their work showed that how economic transactions operate outside markets in common spaces and within companies. By winning this prize, Ostrom became the first woman to win the Economics Nobel prize since it was founded in 1968 and the fifth woman to win a Nobel award this year. Ostrom will share 10 million Swedish kronor prize money with Williamson.

BIOGRAPHY

Elinor Ostrom was born on 7th August, 1933 in United States. She gained BA, MA and Ph.D in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. She grew up at the time of economic depression and her works always links the economy with the environment. Her works shown that informal groups can sometimes manage natural resources such as forests and lakes better than private companies or the government. Now she is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington. In addition, she is a member of the United States ‘National Academy of Sciences’ and previous president of the ‘American Political Science’Association. She was written many books in the fields of organizational theory, political science, and public administration.

AWARDS

Nobel prize in economics was the highest award in Ostrom’s life. In addition, she had gained many awards in her life. In 1999, she gained ‘Johan Skytte Prize’ in Political Science and became the first woman to win this prize. She is the receiptant of ‘James Madison Award’ by the American Political Science Association in 2005, ‘William H. Riker Prize’ in political science in 2008 and ‘Tisch Civic Engagement Research Prize’ from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University in 2009.