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According to the electronics giant, it was a considerable influx of competition that caused the lower than expected results.

Wall Street analysts and investors, alike, were disappointed by the technology news that was recently released by Samsung in terms of its earnings, which missed the predicted mark by a notable amount.

Now, the tech giant has announced that the reason that the earnings were not as hoped, was due to competition.

This is not the first time that the company has had to leave technology news that shows that it knows how to excel but that it faces a considerable struggle when it comes to trying to maintain a tremendous market share across a landscape that is continually growing in its competition. The South Korean electronics company has shown several times that it is strong when it comes to leading the way but that it finds the situation challenging once a range of other players start to catch up in the game.

The Samsung technology news release reported second quarter earnings for 2014 which showed a 20 percent profit drop.

This, when compared to the same quarter during 2013. The company also saw a decrease in its revenue by 8.9 percent. This is the first time that the company recorded a year over year net profit drop since 2011 in the third quarter. Since that time, it has been maintaining a steady climb in this area.

That said, the Wall Street Journal has been reporting that Samsung has every intention of bringing two new high end smartphones to the market shelves “soon”. In all likelihood, this will occur before the end of the year. The strategy will be to help to hold off any more decline in revenue or losses in the market.

According to a technology news statement made by the company, “Prospects for growth remain unclear as competition over global market share intensifies in the mobile industry.” The second quarter of 2014 saw the company’s shipments at 74.3 million smartphones, which was strikingly below the predictions that had been made by Wall Street about the device sales under that brand name.

Customer distraction from mobile devices has made its way onto public dinner tables.

It doesn’t come as any surprise that technology news reports are determining that smartphone users are increasingly distracted during a growing range of different activities, which include walking down the street, driving, and even at concerts and movies that are supposed to be entertaining on their own.

However, a new study has found that this distraction is now taking away from restaurant service.

Restaurants and their staffs are now finding that their jobs are becoming just that much more challenging as people use their smartphones while they’re at the table, taking longer to progress through their meals. Whether they are taking a call, answering a text, checking emails, or photographing their plates, the use of these devices is extremely common, it is becoming more prevalent, and technology news is now showing that it is slowing down service.

A well established restaurant is now making technology news for having conducted a study on the matter.

The restaurant, located in New York City, received several complaints about having experienced slow service. In response, it decided to investigate the matter and looked into its surveillance videos to observe customer behavior trends. It examined forty five different transactions from 2004 that were located at tables between the diners and the front of house staff. Then another forty five equivalent 2014 transactions were observed.

What they discovered was that it was actually the customers, not the staff, that were to blame for the slow-downs in service, and that it was primarily the diners with cell phones that were behind the issue.

The restaurant, which published its technology news findings but that remained anonymous, initially posted its discoveries on the “Rants & Raves” section of Craigslist for Manhattan. Since then, the study has been removed, but it was available long enough for a broad number of people to have a good look at what its comparison revealed.

The technology news making study showed that diners in 2014 required an average of 13 more minutes to order their meals than they did back in 2004. The observations of the surveillance video showed that today’s diners spent much of their time using their smartphones at the table, then spent another three minutes photographing their food once it arrived. Among those who took photographs, nine had to have their food sent back to the kitchen to have it reheat it because it had gone cold during the time it took to photograph it.