SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Tizen, a Linux-based operating system developed by Samsung Electronics Co., was the top smart TV streaming platform last year, a report showed Wednesday, thanks to its status as the world’s largest TV vendor. Tizen accounted for 12.7 percent of global connected TV devices in use in 2020, up from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Tizen, a Linux-based operating system developed by Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp., is the world’s largest TV streaming platform, a report showed Thursday, thanks to Samsung’s robust smart TV sales in the third quarter of the year. Tizen accounted for 12.5 percent of connected TV devices in use, [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top tech firm Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its status as the No. 1 player in the Indian smartphone market in the first quarter of the year, data showed Thursday, boasting strong sales from the mid-end segment to long-term evolution (LTE) models. The South Korean firm took up 25.1 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics showcased its latest smartwatch in Germany on Thursday, saying that the device will be available for sale early next month. Samsung said the Samsung Gear S2, the company’s first circular smartwatch unveiled at an annual trade show in Berlin, will hit the world [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant, Samsung Electronics Co., topped the Indian smartphone market in the second quarter of 2015, data showed Tuesday, on robust sales of its first Tizen-powered handset released earlier this year. Samsung accounted for 24.5 percent of the Indian smartphone market in the April-June period, hovering [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has sold 1 million units of its Tizen-powered smartphones, casting a brighter outlook over the non-Android operating system. Samsung’s Indian subsidiary said the sales of the Z1, which hit shelves in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in January [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Smart TV sets are expected to take up more than 40 percent of global TV shipments in 2015, data showed Wednesday, with South Korean firms anticipated to maintain their lead in the market. Sales of smart TVs are expected to reach 97.1 million units this year, up 11.3 percent from [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea took up nearly half of the global smart TV market in 2014, data showed Monday, with Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics being the only tech players to post a two-digit share. The combined market share held by the two came to 43.4 percent last year, with Samsung accounting for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics began sales of its first Tizen-powered TV on Thursday in its home market, the first step in the company’s strategy to connect all its consumer electronics to the operating system. The newly launched models are curved SUHD TVs, the latest version of [...]
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. [...]