SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The eyes of the smartphone industry are trained on India with Samsung, Apple and Xiaomi all releasing their latest flagship products within weeks of each other. Though the Indian smartphone market has been predominantly composed of mid to lower-tier smartphones in the past, recent economic development has led to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Telecom Co. on Thursday demonstrated the communication between fourth-generation and fifth-generation networks for the first time in the industry, the companies said. The South Korean tech giant and the country’s No. 1 mobile carrier said they successfully made communications between the long-term evolution (LTE) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it launched the industry’s first 128-GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) for automobiles, tapping deeper into the premium memory market. The South Korean tech giant mass produced the mobile 128-GB eUFS for smartphones in January 2015. Samsung said the new product is optimized for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Responses to Apple and Samsung Electronics’ latest flagship releases in the Chinese market have been lukewarm to downright disappointing. Domestically, Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note 8 has performed like a rock star, alleviating company insiders’ concerns that the Galaxy Note 7 exploding debacle would keep customers away. Over the pre-sales [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s reputation plunged in 2017 compared with the year before, industry data showed Tuesday, apparently due to the arrest of its de facto head coupled with the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. According to the U.S.-based Reputation Institute, Samsung’s ranking in terms of corporate social responsibility plunged 69 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Thursday it has partnered with tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector to tap deeper into the burgeoning industry. Kakao I, the company’s AI platform, will be integrated with Samsung’s voice recognition program, Bixby, to allow [...]
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) - Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) (NASDAQ:IDTI) today announced that IDT and Samsung have again collaborated to deliver fast wireless charging for Samsung’s next-level Note device, the new Galaxy Note8, featuring Samsung’s most advanced wireless charging capabilities to date. Samsung and IDT continue their history and success of integrated wireless [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean home appliance giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. will work together to deal with a U.S. safeguard probe of their washing machines, sources said Thursday. In June, the U.S. government started a safeguard investigation into foreign washers, mostly made by South Korean companies, at the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 8 is expected to come with a price tag of 1.09 million won (US$962) here, industry sources said Monday, hovering above that of the device’s predecessor. According to the sources, the 64 GB Galaxy Note 8 is expected to come with a factory price [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean shipbuilders — Samsung Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. — are expected to win a combined US$1.5 billion deal, industry sources said Wednesday. According to industry tracker TradeWinds, the Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) is working on an order for up to 11 [...]