After the recent demonetization saga, India has been hit by a major cash crunch, this has led to an up-rise in digital payment systems. Back in April 2016, the National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) had launched UPI (Unified Payment Service), however it came to popularity in recent times as...
Samsung has applied to patent a 3D image technology that is years ahead of the capabilities Google Glass, it's main competitor, as users will be able to Interact with 3D images shown on the glasses mid-air and be able to do such things as dial phone numbers, send SMS...
A U.S. federal appeals courts sided with Apple on Thursday, in a verdict that could block Samsung from issuing new devices that infringe on the iPhone company's patents.The ruling—which covers Apple patents for slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, and quicklinks—is the latest in a four-year legal tussle. A previous decision in May 2014...
Samsung Electronics is reportedly working on a new mobile cloud service called Samsung Artik, which is a Internet of Things (IoT) based cloud platform that would connect different devices made by the company. According to a trademark application that was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office...
Samsung's current range of Tizen Smartwatches are the Gear / Neo / Gear 2 and Gear S, but as we have previously reported, the company is looking towards something new now in the form of a round watch. The new device is Dubbed the Gear A, and we know...
Samsung Gear S standalone smartwatchSamsung's recent pledge to “pause” its smartwatch releases for “a more perfect product” apparently didn't last long. On Tuesday, SamMobile claimed to have new details about Samsung’s forthcoming round smartwatch.See also: Samsung's Smart Move: No More SmartwatchesEven worse, there's nothing particularly inspiring about the new device, either.New Shape,...
Samsung executive vice president Young-hee Lee has revealed the company’s smartwatch strategy moving forward: Don’t release any. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal at Mobile World Congress, Lee explained Samsung’s new strategy regarding watches simply:We’ve been introducing more devices than anybody else. It’s time for us to pause. We want...
Samsung Electronics has acquired LoopPay, a Mobile Payment startup, which is seen as a move to take on Apple's Apple Pay service, which has been gainining momentum lately. LoopPay says its patented technology called Magnetic Secure Transmission "turns existing magnetic stripe readers into secure, contactless receivers." The company says...
Samsung just announced its intention to buy Boston-based LoopPay, a mobile payments company that has one very noteworthy benefit—the technology can work with standard magnetic stripe-reading credit card terminals.The payments company claims it works with 90% of those existing machines, which would immediately give Samsung a payments system with far...
The BlackBerry Classic announcement Update January 14, 2015, 2:32pm PST: BlackBerry denies that it is in talks with Samsung over an acquisition deal: "BlackBerry has not engaged in discussions with Samsung with respect to any possible offer to purchase BlackBerry." The statement, however, is not a blanket denial that it might...
Samsung has been spoiling us with their Tizen based Smart watches of late, and all of them have been sporting a square face, well that is upto now, as Sammobile reports that there is a Round face Tizen based Smart watch in the works. The upcoming Smart watch has...
A New York federal court revealed that the Microsoft Corporation is demanding a small sum of $6.9 million USD interest from Samsung Electronics, with regards to a dispute over smartphone patent royalties. The money is interest that Microsoft says that Samsung should pay on more than $1 billion in royalty...
A new trademark has surfaced, Samsung has filed “Gear S” in the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) website. At this stage the name Gear S seems to point to a wearable device, possibly another smartwatch, but what does the S denote? In Samsung's recent Galaxy Tab S...
It looks like Samsung is on a roll with regards to registering trademarks. We recently reported on the Gear VR trademark, and now they have applied for the trademark "Gear Store" at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. From the trademark’s description, Gear Store is a “computer application software...
There are rumours that Samsung is working on a virtual reality headset, and we might know the name according to a filed application with the US Patent and Trademark Office, for the trademark Gear VR. We don't need any prizes to guess that VR stands for Virtual Reality. Samsung...
Fleksy has today released their Messenger App for the Tizen based Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch, giving users the ability to respond to messages directly from your wrist. The Fleksy app is the first keyboard to integrate with the Samsung Gear 2, allowing users to access SMS conversation threads and...
The developers and patenteers are busy at Samsung. We've been hearing all rumours about a SIM-enabled Gear wearable and now we get serious rumors about the next wearable. Something to do with BLINK which strongly suggests that eye movements or eye activation is being worked on. In South Korea...
The tangle of patent litigation between two of the world’s top tech companies appears to have just straightened out: Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility have agreed to stop suing each other over smartphone technology and “work together in some areas of patent reform,” Reuters reported Friday.It’s not clear what that...
Samsung have recently released their Tizen Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch range, but it seems the Korean tech giant doesn't want to stop there. According to a report in the Korean media, Samsung are getting ready to take on Google in the Glass department, naming it "Samsung Gear Glass", which...
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything.Apple’s lawyers once again get to lord over Samsung in patent court—even if Apple is only getting a fraction of what it wanted from the...
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