Make your home smarter with the $249 SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit

SmartThings has been in the business of making IoT-enabled smart devices for quite some time now, it ended up being acquired by Samsung which now wants to be a force to be reckoned with in the IoT arena. To provide an easy way for people to make their home smarter the company has introduced the $249 SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit which features a SmartThings Hub as well as compatible accessories. The...

Jay-Z visits Samsung HQ in Silicon Valley, is Samsung buying Tidal?

Rap mogul Jay-Z owns music streaming service Tidal, which hasn’t been performing as well as competing services, so could Jay-Z be looking to offload the service to a company with deeper pockets that can take Tidal into another direction? Well, that’s the buzz these days, as earlier this week Jay-Z visited Samsung HQ in Silicon Valley which have led to rumors that the company might have some interest in buying Tidal. Variety reports...

Analyst believes Samsung will lose Apple’s business for iPhone 7 processors because of ‘Chipgate’

Apple opted for both Samsung and TSMC to manufacture its new A9 processor that you’ll find in the company’s latest mobile devices, Samsung’s A9 chip is made on a 14nm process while TSMC’s chip is made on a 16nm process. This has led to a new controversy called “Chipgate,” with multiple reports claiming that the TSMC chip provides 20% better battery life than its Samsung counterpart. Apple tried to downplay the issue by saying that its tests show...

Samsung begins disclosing some details of its monthly security updates

Samsung has had a habit of releasing monthly security updates without disclosing what’s actually in those updates, what issues that it has addressed and fixed, users don’t really know what the update fixes and can only figure it out if an apparent issue doesn’t exist after the update is installed. There appears to be a slight change in the way Samsung does things, following Google’s decision to start publicly disclosing details of monthly security...