SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, today introduced the Samsung Z, the first commercially available smartphone powered by the Tizen platform. The Samsung Z will be on show at the Tizen Developer Conference, San Francisco from June 3rd. Built on top of unparalleled quality and the cutting-edge technology of Samsung’s latest premium smartphone, [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today announced plans to release Tizen-based Samsung TV SDK, marking the industry’s first Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows developers to build applications for the Tizen-based TV. Samsung’s Tizen-based TV SDK Beta will be available early July following the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics released its new curved UHD TV commercial in which four top sports stars in Korea including figure queen Yuna Kim, the world’s best speed skater Lee Sang-hwa, swimming champion Park Tae-hwan and national soccer team head coach Hong Myung-bo appeared altogether. With the theme “Let’s All Be Head Coaches,” [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first three-dimensional (3D) V-NAND flash memory using 32 vertically stacked cell layers, which is its second generation V-NAND offering. Samsung’s 32-layer 3D V-NAND – also referred [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today launched a bold initiative aimed at directing the resources and innovation of the global technology industry toward empowering individuals to better manage their own health and wellness. The Samsung Digital Health Initiative is based on open hardware and software platforms that will accelerate [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung has not paid back US$100 million of US bonds and is still paying interest on them for 17 years since it issued the bonds in 1997, just before the Asian financial crisis in Korea. Considering Samsung’s current cushy financial situation with more than 150 trillion won ($146.4 billion) [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – To an announcement that Samsung Electronics would compensate those affected by the sickness and deaths of some of its workers, with “sincerest apologies,” the Supporters for the Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS) group responded that the company must allow workers to organize themselves. SHARPS [...]
OYSTER BAY, N.Y., May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past year Apple’s tablet OEM competitors experienced a growth of 79%, while Apple experienced only 13% growth in tablet shipments. Despite growing challenges, as the tablet market reaches saturation in advanced world markets, ABI Research projects Apple to remain a strong force in the market if [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid continued reports of privacy infringements and social awareness of electric power shortage problem, Samsung Electronics have launched solutions that can help to cope with the both problems at the same time. Korea’s leading electronics company announced that they have added “illegal recording prevention” function in their new products [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is eyeing China for its semiconductor production and display panel supplies in searching of low cost advantage. On May 9, the world’s No. 1 memory chip maker announced that it began full-scale semiconductor manufacturing operations in China’s Xi’an fab. The new facility will manufacture Samsung’s advanced NAND [...]