SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will release its innovative omni-directional Radiant 360 wireless speakers in Korea on April 21, with the global launch coming later. First introduced at 2015 CES last January, the new Samsung Radiant 360 wireless speaker earned high praise for its interesting features and dynamic sound. Samsung will accept pre-orders at its Samsung Stores [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea took up nearly half of the global smart TV market in 2014, data showed Monday, with Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics being the only tech players to post a two-digit share. The combined market share held by the two came to 43.4 percent last year, with Samsung accounting for [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ handsets emit less electromagnetic waves than Apple‘s iPhones, a research report showed Sunday, with the low-end Galaxy Mega smartphone being the No. 1 radiowave-safe product. According to the research conducted by market tracker Cnet in France, the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), a measure of emission of electromagnetic fields, came [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korea observer has insisted that up to one million North Korean elites enjoy luxurious lives in Pyongyang under Kim Jung-un’s rule of the communist country. Park Sung-jo, an economics professor at the Free University of Berlin, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on April 8 that [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s leading home appliance maker, said Thursday it has rolled out its latest premium TV models in the United States, as part of efforts to grab a bigger share in the North America region. LG unveiled the Ultra OLED TV and Super Ultra HD TV before [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator said Thursday that Internet-only banks are expected to be launched in South Korea in 2015 as it is working on detailed measures to encourage big name IT firms like Naver and Daum Kakao to invest in the online banking industry. Under the current financial laws, a [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presence in the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) hit a record high last year, data showed Thursday, as Samsung Electronics continued to secure its seat on the throne on the back of its latest 20-nanometer products. Asia’s fourth-largest economy took up 67.7 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics estimated its first-quarter operating profit at 5.9 trillion won (US$5.44 billion) on Tuesday, which beat a market consensus and pointed to a recovery in its earnings. The operating profit was up 11.53 percent from the 5.29 trillion won for the October-December period of 2014 [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics recently unveiled a new model of its POWERbot robot vacuum cleaner, which can be easily controlled by a smartphone app. The robot cleaner can be controlled using the “Samsung Smart Home” smartphone application, which users to remotely access the cleaner through Wi-Fi. As it can be controlled remotely, [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ Galaxy S6 Edge is more fragile than Apple‘s iPhone 6 Plus, which sparked the so-called “Bendgate” dispute for bending easily, a U.S. device repair firm said Monday, creating worries among Samsung fans awaiting the phone’s launch scheduled for this week. “The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge deformed at 110 [...]