SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Criticism of smartwatches is mounting as they continue to fail to overcome drawbacks such as short battery capacity and limited compatibility. Smartwatches still remain supplementary devices to complement smartphones. According to the KISDI’s (Korea Information Society Development Institute) report, ‘Changes in the Smartwatch Market, its Trends and Future’, the [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it has added a high capacity version to its solid state drive (SDD) lineup to target the international market. The new SSD version with 500 gigabytes of storage will lead the 750 EVO lineup consisting of editions with capacities [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top 30 business groups reduced the number of their executives by about 500 over the past year due mainly to downsizing and business restructuring moves, data showed Wednesday. The total number of senior executives at the 30 largest conglomerates was 9,632 as of May 16, down 484, [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s panel makers — Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. — will showcase their new flagship AMOLED and OLED products in San Francisco this week, company officials said Monday. The two are joining the Display Week event, hosted by the Society for Information Display (SID), to last through Friday [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Innomdle Lab, a local spin-off of Samsung Electronics, is scheduled to start production later this year of smart straps for smartwatches that enable one to make calls by pressing a finger to the ear, company officials said Monday. Mass production is expected to begin some time in October, officials [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean mountaineer and explorer, Huh Young-ho (63), has succeeded in filming an ascension of Mount Everest with a 360-degree VR camera. After 43 days of climbing and preparation, Huh reached the mountain’s summit for the fifth time on May 16 at 6AM local time. He now holds [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – An image of the presumed Galaxy S7 Active has been leaked. SamMobile, a blog specializing in Samsung products, introduced an image of a desert-camo decorated GS7, which it is expected to be released exclusively through AT&T on June 10. The new S7 Active will have a 5.5-inch display with [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been almost two years since Samsung Group chairman Kun-hee Lee was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. With a sudden void in leadership, there have been many voices of concern from both within and outside the company. After two years, however, Samsung still figures among the global [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A high-ranking Samsung Group official said the conglomerate will not roll out further reorganizations of affiliates, amid the rising rumor that the family-controlled giant will offload its credit card and construction businesses. “There are no more affiliates or businesses that will be offloaded,” said Kim Jong-joong, an official from [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s lawsuit against British manufacturer Dyson in a patent row over a vacuum cleaner mechanism has been withdrawn from a Seoul court after the two firms resolved the dispute through arbitration, court officials said Tuesday. The South Korean tech giant filed the suit against the British firm [...]