SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has started mass production of 8-gigabit graphic memory chips that adopt 20-nanometer technology, completing the full 20-nano level lineup in mobiles, servers, PCs and graphics. The Graphics Double Data Rate 5 (GDDR5) is the advanced version of the preceding 4-gigabit GDDR5 that enables [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s top electronics firm, Thursday denied media reports that it is in takeover talks with Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. “It is not true,” a spokeswoman at Samsung Electronics said, adding that the company “does not respond to rumors.” BlackBerry, in a press release on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has launched its first Tizen-powered smartphone in India as it aggressively targets the low-end market and attempts a breakaway from the dominant Android operating system. The 4-inch Samsung Z1 is powered by the Tizen 2.3 platform and comes with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 12, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today unveiled the new Galaxy A7, one of the slimmest Galaxy smartphones equipped with premium hardware for a superior social experience. Combining powerful multitasking performance with sophisticated design, the Galaxy A7 expands on the popular services provided by the Galaxy A5 and A3, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech companies are expected to kick off mass production of their quantum dot TVs this year, analysts said Tuesday, amid intense competition with Chinese rivals to gain an upper hand in the global market with the advanced technology. Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top maker of smartphones [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is presenting its vision for an immersive and interactive retail experience at NRF 2015, highlighting a range of co-created solutions suited for every retail environment, from the storefront to the showroom to the loading dock, warehouse and back office. Combining seamlessly with a diverse [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will cut support for its proprietary mobile operation system “Bada,” proving that it failed in its development of the OS. According to industry watchers, Samsung recently announced that it would stop running the Bada developers’ forum on its Bada developers’ site (http://developer.bada.com). Last year, Samsung officially declared [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung has yet again postponed the release of a smartphone powered by its own Tizen operating system. That marks the fourth time that the company has pushed back the launch. According to IT industry experts, the Tizen device was originally expected to be launched on December 10 in India. IT experts [...]
SEOUL, Dec.5 (Korea Bizwire) – The youngest one in the latest announcement on December 4 by Samsung Group for executive-level promotions turned out to be a 33-year-old computer scientist and Inventor named Pranav Mistry. Currently head of research at Samsung’s Silicon Valley R&D center, he is well known for his expertise in user experience in wearable devices. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Workers of Samsung affiliates to be sold to Hanwha Group are protesting the massive sell-off of their companies. A Samsung worker even left a post selling his Samsung badge on an online direct commerce site as an expression of his protest against the deal. On November 28, workers of Samsung Total [...]