SEJONG, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it has no plan to ban the use of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 7 on planes following the company’s global recall of the smartphones for battery problems. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said that it has been reviewing whether to prevent people [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung has impressed consumers with iris-scanning technology and dust and water-proof enclosures in its premium phones, and LG, with its dual camera and improved audio capabilities (in the new V20). But how long will these latest technologies remain as signature features exclusive to individual models of premium smartphones? Thinking [...]
SEOUL, Sept.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumers who were lucky enough to get their hands on the new Galaxy Note 7 are now anxious that they may have purchased a faulty product. According to industry watchers, at least five cases of exploding Note 7s have been reported on online message boards, including two in Korea, since [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled two new smartwatches which feature a mobile payment function, longer battery life and built-in GPS capabilities for emergency calls or texts. The Gear S3 Frontier and S3 Classic were made public in Berlin on Wednesday ahead of this week’s IFA trade fair, one of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. has halted deliveries of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 phablet to South Korean mobile carriers amid a series of reports at home and abroad that a few of the devices were “exploding” while they were being charged, industry officials said Wednesday. The stoppage of Galaxy Note [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top court on Tuesday upheld a ruling by a lower court that South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is not to blame for the leukemia death of one of its former employees at a chipmaking facility, citing a lack of evidence. In 2010, five people, including [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile-payment service, Samsung Pay, has hit 2 trillion won (US$1.8 billion) in accumulated transaction volume in South Korea, the company said Wednesday. The record came about one year after Samsung launched the mobile-payment service at home. Of the accumulated transaction volume, the value of fingerprint-identification mobile [...]
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. signed a business pact with the tourism board of Mexico’s Yucatan state to implement a project that will utilize the South Korean electronics giant’s virtual reality (VR) technologies to help develop the Mexican state’s tourism industry, the Mexican unit of Samsung said Monday. It marks [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean shares hit this year’s new high on Friday, led by the continued rally of the top cap Samsung Electronics. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 0.77 point, or 0.04 percent, to 2,056.24. Samsung Electronics climbed 2.13 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The highly-anticipated Galaxy Note 7, Samsung’s latest flagship phablet, was finally released on Friday. Customers who placed pre-orders for the new phone lined up in front of mobile phone shops across the country to finally get their hands on Samsung’s most recent innovation. The Galaxy Note 7 was met [...]