Samsung Bans its 8GB phone
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It is understandable if a company bans its competitors product to be used in the office premises. But Samsung has banned one of their own product, the SCH-B570 8GB phone. The reason stated behind this move is data theft. Ki-Tae Lee, the CEO of Samsung Electronics Telecommunications Network was quoted as following:
Even though we made it, SCH -B570 with 8GB HDD is not allowed within the company. 8GB storage capacity is more than enough to steal all confidential data about our company.
[Via TelecomsKorea]
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Jul 20th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
[...] First it was Samsung to ban their high storage capacity phone in their offices and it seems every company is taking the same step. Atleast in Canada. Canadian companies have banned the usage of high capacity music players and pen drives. The reason is the same as they fear their data can be easily stolen and stored in these devices. [...]
Aug 23rd, 2006 at 7:53 pm
[...] Samsung has lined up another feature rich phone for the Korean market. It is the same phone which was banned earlier in their HQ. The SCH-B570 has a massive 8GB storage space for storing your audio and video files. It also features a 5.1-channel virtual stereo, picture in picture, GPS, DMB, 2 megapixel camera and a motion sensing alarm. Because of its motion sensors, the alarm will buzz again even if the alarm is turned off. [...]