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Samsung 4K SUHD TVs Roll Out As Company Plays 4K Blu-ray Catch-Up
Samsung has begun rolling out an expanded lineup of 16 SUHD-technology 4K Ultra HD TVs with a mix of flat and curved screens, all...
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AT&T Expanding Samsung Galaxy Selection With Express Prime, Express 3, Express J3
AT&T continues to expand its selection of Samsung smartphones with the launch of two prepaid GoPhone smartphones and a value-priced postpaid smartphone, all said...
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Samsung Developing Foldable Phablet With 7-Inch OLED Display
Samsung is developing a phablet with an OLED display that turns a tablet-size 7-inch screen into a 5-inch smartphone screen when folded, a Korean...
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Samsung’s Windows 10 Galaxy TabPro S Is Now Available
Samsung has begun shipping the Windows 10 Galaxy TabPro S two-in-one, first announced at CES 2016. The device, which carries an $899 suggested retail,...
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Verizon Adds 18.4-Inch Samsung Galaxy View Tablet
Verizon joined AT&T in offering an LTE-equipped version of Samsung’s 18.4-inch Galaxy View tablet, whose large screen and built-in carry handle and stand are...
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SquareTrade Rates Galaxy S7 Phones ‘Medium Risk’ For Breakage
Extended-warranty supplier SquareTrade tested Samsung’s new water-resistant Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge flagship phones for durability vs. that of Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s...
News
Samsung 837 Marks Return Of Brand’s Big Apple Showcase
Five years after closing its public showroom at New York’s Columbus Circle, Samsung Electronics America has opened its downtown office facility to consumers with...
Keeping Current
Samsung Warns of Competition as Investors Vote on Board Changes
“We expect core products of our company, such as smartphone, TV, and memory, will face oversupply issues and intensified price competition,” Samsung’s CEO said...
Keeping Current
Samsung Likely to Shutter Milk Music Service
Samsung offered Milk Music on select Samsung smartphones and opened it up to the Web and to Samsung smart TVs, but apps were never...
Industry
Tech Companies Ready For SXSW Festival
Tens of thousands of music, film and tech enthusiasts will mingle next week during the city-wide SXSW 2016 festival and trade show in Austin,...
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Samsung, Six Flags Team For Virtual-Reality Rollercoasters
Riders on virtual-reality-equipped rollercoasters at nine Six Flags theme parks this year will fly with Superman or battle space aliens while wearing Samsung’sGear VR...
Industry
Samsung Asks ‘Why’ At The Oscars
Instead of an Ellen-wrangled selfie at this year’s Academy Awards, Samsung brought a new star-studded commercial to the Oscars. The 90-second commercial, titled “Why”...
Industry
Samsung 837 Marks Return Of Brand’s Big Apple Showcase
Five years after closing its public showroom at New York’s Columbus Circle, Samsung has opened its downtown facility to consumers with an even more...
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MWC16: Facebook To Boost 360 Video Quality On Samsung Gear VR
Facebook will quadruple the resolution of 360-degree streaming Facebook videos to Samsung’s Gear VR virtual-reality headset in the next few weeks, Facebook founder Mark...
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2016 MWC: Samsung S7, S7 Edge Focus On Cameras, Gaming
Samsung upped the camera and gaming performance of its new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones, brought back a removable memory-card slot, and added...
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Smart TVs Turn Into The Hub Of A Smart House
Three major TV companies – LG, Samsung and Sony – are launching TVs that serve as home-automation hubs or connect to a hub to...
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Who’s Trying To Ban iPhones Now?
Samsung didn’t succeed in getting a ban on the importation of select Apple products in 2013, but haptic-feedback company Immersion thinks it can get...
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Everybody’s Doing It: How People Use Their Smartphones
Smartphones owners can’t keep their content on their phone, a Parks Associates survey of broadband households found. Thirty-five percent of smartphone owners stream music...
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Samsung Q4 Smartphone Sales Surge As iPhone Stagnates
Samsung’s global smartphone sales surged in the fourth quarter as Apple shipments stagnated, but Samsung’s full-year sales rose only at a low-single-digit percentage rate...
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IHS: Apple Tops Fingerprint Sensor Market
Biometric security for devices is on the rise, and IHS Technology research shows fingerprint sensor security is leading the way. Fingerprint sensors, used primarily...
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iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Didn’t Prevent Apple From Losing Q4 Market Share
Apple lost U.S. smartphone share in the fourth quarter of last year despite the September launch of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus,...
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IHS: Samsung, LG Step Up TV-Panel Outsourcing To China
TV makers Samsung and LG continue to outsource more of their TV-display production to Chinese factories and rely less on their own display-making factories,...
CES
Samsung’s Hong At CES 2016: ‘The Future Is Here’ For IoT
“The future is here” when it comes IoT, according to Dr. WP Hong, president of Samsung SDS in his Thursday morning CES keynote. Hong’s...
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CES 2016: Samsung Goes All The Way With 4K, Smart Home Technology
Samsung expanded its selection of 4K SUHD and 4K UHD TVs, turned its smart SUHD TVs into home-automation hubs, and launched its first 4K...
Audio
Samsung Bringing Dolby Atmos Soundbar To 2016 CES
Samsung will go to CES to join the short list of suppliers offering a soundbar equipped with Dolby Atmos object-based surround sound. Samsung’s HW-K950...
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Samsung SUHD TVs To Double As Home Automation Hubs
Samsung is turning its 2016 smart SUHD TVs into home automation hubs, enabling consumers to control and monitor their smart home systems via their...
Appliances
Whirlpool Charges Samsung, LG With Predatory Pricing
Says Koreans avoided penalities by moving production to China Whirlpool has filed an antidumping petition with the U.S. Commerce Department and the U.S. International...
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Sprint Giving Away Free Samsung TVs
It used to be that retailers gave away a soundbar or Blu-ray player with the purchase of a TV, but Sprint is turning that...
Industry
YouTube Names Top Ad Videos For 2015
Here’s one way that Samsung has bested Apple this year: YouTube revealed the top 10 ad videos on its platform for the year, and...
Home Automation
Samsung Sees Drones, IoT In Its Future
Samsung Electronics will reportedly make a big push into drones and IoT in 2016. Samsung last year bought IoT company Smart Things and plans...
news
Samsung Claims Record $1 Billion In October North American TV Sales
Samsung Electronics sold more than $1 billion worth of TVs in October in North America, setting a new monthly sales record, the company said....
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Samsung Smartphone Sales On Upswing Again
Samsung’s global smartphone shipments rose in the third quarter for the first time in six quarters, but its share slipped slightly in part because...
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Sprint Reveals 4 Android Lollipop Tablets For The Holidays: Tab E, Pixi 7, Slate 8, Slate 10
Cellular-connected tablets were key drivers of growth in Sprint’s third-quarter postpaid net subscriber additions, and the carrier wants to keep it up in the...
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Sprint Offers 1 Year Of Free Amazon Prime With Phone Purchase
Sprint hopes to accelerate its pace of postpaid-phone activations during the holiday selling season by offering one free year of Amazon Prime service with...
Computers
Samsung’s New Ativ Book 9 Pro Has A 4K Display
Samsung launched two new Ativ laptops, one with a 4K display and one with a display that rotates 360 degrees. The Ativ Book 9...
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Samsung Galaxy View: No Android Tablet Too Big
18.4-inch tablet for media playback Samsung believes people who consume a large share of their media on a mobile device need a bigger screen....
Financial
Samsung Posts Sales, Net-Income Gains in Q3
Samsung posted solid gains in sales and net income in its third quarter despite flat consumer electronics sales. Mobile-device sales rose, as did operating...
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Microsoft’s CE Products Get Almost As Much Respect As Apple’s
Consumer perceptions of Microsoft’s consumer electronics products are on the upswing, and the company “appears ripe to disrupt Apple’s hold across markets” thanks to...
CES
Samsung’s Hong To Give CES Keynote
Dr. Won Pyo Hong, president and chief marketing officer of Samsung Electronics, will deliver a keynote address at CES 2016, the Consumer Electronics Association...
CES-2016
Video & Audio Center Readies Launch Of ‘All-Digital, All-Touch’ Superstore
Udpated!Video & Audio Center will open its fourth location, a new flagship store in Woodland Hills, Calif., this week, described as “the first all-digital,...
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Amazon’s Dash System Wants To Make It So You Never Write Another Shopping List Again
Amazon’s Dash system just got a lot more interesting. In addition to being able to order more paper towels with the push of a...
Audio
Samsung Audio Looking Radiant With New Wi-Fi Speakers
Samsung’s expanded selection of wireless-multiroom Radiant 360 speakers will begin appearing in stores mid-month, all dispersing sound in a 360-degree pattern so consumers hear...