Samsung NEXT, who were formerly known as the Samsung Global Innovation Center, have announced the creation of a $150 million venture capital investment fund, which is named the Samsung NEXT Fund. This fund is to be utilised in supporting early startups who are focused on advanced software and services innovation and to...
Samsung are due to unveil their latest edition Family Hub 2.0 refrigerator at CES 2017 being held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The updated hub software will be available on 10 refrigerator models, which was previously limited to 4, and improves on the apps its supports as well as how they are...
Samsung acquired Viv Labs in order to build a new and powerful virtual assistant that can rival the offerings from Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Today, according to Information received by Sammobile, Samsung will use a new virtual assistant named Bixby on all its native apps on the upcoming Android-powered Galaxy...
Samsung's mobile payment service-'Samsung Pay' is being actively used by a lot of consumers on a daily basis and has been one of the strongest competition for Apple's 'Apple Pay' mobile payment service. Samsung Pay is currently available in some of Samsung's high end smartphones as well as on its...
Samsung announced this week that it will be incorporating digital assistant technology, named Bixby, into its upcoming products. This AI assistant was trademarked by Samsung last month and is created to act as a digital assistant for managing personal information. Vice Chairman of Samsung electronics, Lee Jae-yong, explained the company’s...
Samsung’s future is into AI, and now we have confirmation Confirmation? Yes, because Tizen Experts saw it coming one month ago, depicting Samsung’s strategy with great precision. But we are sure this won't come as a surprise to our readers. That, according to Reuters, Samsung is going to exploit its recent...
There's a new competitor in town for Raspberry Pi. It's name is SAMSUNG ARTIK Smart IoT platform. We are not talking about a single board computer, actually. It's instead a family of modules, sensors and, forgive the repetition, single board computers, all part of the same solution targeting startups and designers...
Samsung has unveiled the latest details of his stunning, next-generation TV. Named SUHD Qualmark Red TV, it's based on the proprietary technology Samsung has pioneered: QLED, long for Quantum dot Light-Emitting Diode. According to sources from Samsung Electronics, the product will cover the high-end spectrum of the market, proposing itself as the...
In a bold move towards emerging markets, Samsung bets big on its role in the mobile landscape and announces it will double its smartphone production in India by 2019. The plan has already met full approval by the Indian government: there’s no stopping it. This turns out to be very...
Samsung have announced the start of its mass production of the Exynos 7 Dual 7270 processor. This is the first mobile application processor (AP) which has been specifically designed for wearable devices, can you say Gear devices ?, built with 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. Amazingly if you look at the size of this...
Samsung Electronics has today announced that it would be releasing its SmartThings-enabled kitchen appliances next month. The tech giant in its drive to expand its portfolio of Smart kitchen appliances would release a new line of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled cooktops, wall ovens and range hoods. The products are touted to come with...
It is no secret that Samsung uses Spreadtrum's SOCs for most of its budget and mid range smartphones. Spreadtrum's current best chip happens to be the SC9860- a 16nm process based 2GHz octacore 64 bit Cortex A53 SOC; these are chipset specifications from the yester-year and the technology is now moving...
Samsung's Family Hub smart refrigerator is probably one of the smartest Internet of Things gadgets around and yet the device is getting even smarter. Samsung is said to be working on modalities to include Samsung Pay on the smart refrigerator. The Family Hub is Samsung’s way of redefining kitchen experiences,...
Samsung Electronics has announced the certification of the entire range of its 2016 Smart TVs by renowned German testing and certification authority, TÜV Rheinland, for their usability. Aside certifying the TVs' usability, TÜV Rheinland is also reported to have validated Samsung Smart TVs for their remote features. The certification and validation...
Korean electronics giant Samsung has hinted that it would be unveiling the European Edition of its highly successful Family Hub smart refrigerator at IFA 2016, held in Berlin, Germany. The twin-door set up of the Smart Fridge which places the fridge on top and the freezer at the bottom is...
Samsung has been experimenting out a lot of things to promote its ARTIK development board and ARTIK Cloud. The ARTIK boards were originally announced last year but they took quite a lot of time to hit retail stores in surplus stocks (and even at the time of writing this...
Samsung had announced last year, during the unveiling of its ARTIK chip, a $100,000 award for whoever creates the best idea to solve the California drought crisis. The challenge was instituted after the Korean tech giant witnessed the devastation caused by drought in California which started in 2011. The company promised...
The Vice Chairman & CEO Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon of Samsung unveiled today the companies vision for ‘Human-Centered IoT,’, which also included a strategy to spend $1.2 billion over 4 years for U.S.-based Internet of Things (IoT) R&D and investments. As we know Samsung will be utilising Tizen as the underlying technology...
Samsung has continued its commitment to bringing Tizen to more form factors, announcing today two new wearables, the Gear Fit 2, a fitness tracker and the Gear IconX, a pair of wireless earbuds. The Gear Fit 2 is the successor to the original Gear Fit, launched in mid-2014 to middling...
Yesterday the Internet lit up like a Christmas tree with the news that Samsung was no longer going to use Android Wear for any of its Smartwatches, but it seems that might not be quite the case. The report from Fast Company cited some Samsung executives confirming that Samsung...
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