SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics sold all of its 1,000 Galaxy S6 Edge Iron Man Edition smartphones in less than a day despite a server crash to due to the rush of Iron Man fans seeking the limited-edition device. Samsung officially began selling the Iron Man edition at 10am on May 27 at [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Hausys has launched a smart window whose functions, including opening and closing, setting alarms, ventilation and lighting can be controlled by a smartphone. The company announced on May 25 that users can open and close its new ‘Smart Window’ wherever they are, through a smartphone app. Users can [...]
GUNSAN, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Body-worn video systems have been introduced to Korean police officers for the first time, as four of the cameras were put into use by the Gunsan Police Station on May 7. The body cams will work as personal black boxes providing footage of evidence for crimes or documenting excessive [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Flying of drones within 2km of airports in Korea will soon be technically impossible. The Seoul Regional Aviation Administration said on May 18 that it has agreed with Chinese drone manufacturer DJI to start a program that automatically shuts down drones within 2km of airports. The program will be installed [...]
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. court ruled Monday that Apple cannot collect damages from Samsung Electronics for its claims that the South Korean electronics giant copied the overall look and feel of iPhone, a decision expected to lower the US$930 million damages awarded to Apple. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Major electronics brands Apple and Samsung saw their shares in the global tablet PC market plunge in the first quarter of 2015, data showed Monday, dented by the rise of Chinese companies tapping deeper into the “white box” segment. U.S. tech giant Apple accounted for 24.3 percent of the global [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. saw its global market share in the mobile phone sector drop slightly during the first quarter of this year but its shares in the DRAM, TV and display areas improved, a report showed Sunday. According to the report by Samsung Electronics detailing [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top smartphone maker, managed to stay on the top 10 list of global tech players this month in terms of market capitalization but suffered a one notch decline from end-2014 apparently due to a plunge in earnings. Samsung ranked No. 10 among other major tech [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Smart TV sets are expected to take up more than 40 percent of global TV shipments in 2015, data showed Wednesday, with South Korean firms anticipated to maintain their lead in the market. Sales of smart TVs are expected to reach 97.1 million units this year, up 11.3 percent from [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — On May 10, exactly one year after the hospitalization of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee from a stroke, workers in Korea’s largest business group posted numerous get-well messages on Samsung’s intranet portal “My Single,” and its in-house media portal, “Media Samsung.” In the login page of My Single, users uploaded words [...]