SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on October 21 that its smartphones equipped with its mobile security platform KNOX won approval from the National Information Assurance Partnership, an affiliate organization of the National Security Agency in the United States, as commercial solutions for classified. According to the affiliate of Samsung Group, six smartphones [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, the two pillars of Korea’s electronics industry, have displayed state-of-the-art communications technology and smart items at the World IT Show 2014, the trade show being held at Busan’s BEXCO Exhibition & Convention Center for four days between October 20 and 23. Samsung set up a large booth [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics offered a specially designed photobook to promote its premium curved TVs aimed at customers who might wonder what it looks like when they place Samsung curved TVs in their living rooms. The “Curved TV Living Room Show Book” offers “real-feel” effect to be created by the product in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A parliamentary investigation disclosed that the volume of earned surplus stocked up by large corporations has increased at a fast pace for the past few years. According to Congressman Lee Jong-kul (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) on October 18 based on data submitted by the Financial Supervisory Service, the [...]
Seoul, Korea, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company and Samsung Electronics will team up to lead 5G network, the next generation mobile communications technology, on October 20, 2014. The two companies signed a MOU to start joint research on 5G network technology and service development. SK Telecom [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18(Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to a newly devised positioning technology, people in a disaster situation can now have more chances to be rescued. Samsung Electronics and KT, Korea’s largest telecom corporation, announced on October 16 that they jointly developed a Device-to-device Discovery technology to rescue people in severe trouble. The brand-new positioning service enables [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea, Samsung Electronics is the most favored and sought-after company among Korean university grads. Reflecting their enthusiasm to work at Samsung, around 200,000 university students including retakers — and even third-time retakers — took the Samsung Aptitude Test (SSAT), a kind of entry test for Samsung Group, this year. [...]
“Now, the online music market is shifting to a new paradigm of streaming radio. Meanwhile, Samsung with its deep pocket is spending fortunes in the name of an “innovative free music service,” which is in effect destroying the legitimate music streaming market that all the parties of the music industry took a decade to nurture. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has developed a new 60-GHz Wi-Fi technology that’s five times faster than the current Wi-Fi services. The new technology could accelerate the speed up to 4.6 Gbps (gigabyte per second) as it makes use of the rarely used ultra-high frequency of 60 GHz. This is more than five [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Only a week after the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law has been in effect on October 1, the sales of smartphones made by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics fell to a level only half of what it used to be before the law. In contrast, the sales of [...]