Facebook working on richer 360-degrees videos for Gear VR headsets

Facebook is working on supporting immersive ads and 360-degrees video for VR headsets and other platforms including the web and iOS. It’s also rolling out 360-degree video uploading tools to Facebook pages which allows companies, artists and the like to deliver better content to people around the world. If you’re having trouble uploading these sort of videos then Facebook has you covered with 360video.fb.com, which is a website containing all the...

South Korea’s T-Money and Cashbee payment apps available for Gear S2

The Gear S2 is already available in some important markets including South Korea, China, the US, the UK, and some European countries. Now, Samsung is trying to partner with popular brands and launch as many apps for its latest smartwatch as possible. The latest to join the list of Gear S2 compatible apps are T-Money and Cashbee. T-Money and Cashbee are two popular rechargeable cards and smart devices...

Security researchers find a way to listen in on calls made from Samsung smartphones

Security researchers have been able to find a way to listen in on phone calls made through a Samsung smartphone by using a malicious base station, the full extent of this vulnerability is unclear but it does affect the company’s recent high-end devices like the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge. It’s classified as a “man-in-the-middle” attack, discovered by researchers Daniel Komaromy and Nico Golde, it involves setting up a malicious base station...

Samsung leads others in number of patents filed for wearable devices

A report which cites data collected from the Thomson Reuters’ Patent Search Service and World Intellectual Property Service (WIPS) states that Samsung is leading its rivals in the most number of patents filed for wearable devices between 2003 and 2014, the same report puts Philips in second and Panasonic in third place. Korea Electronics Technology Institute issued this report, it’s a government-supported research of electronics components,...

Samsung Display shuts down the L5 production line

Samsung Display has stopped production on the local L5 line which was previously used to mass produce the company’s fifth-generation LCD panels, the production line is located in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. Now that the line is no longer being used for producing the LCD panels the company has entered the procedure to start selling the equipment. It set up the L5 line back in 2002 which was used to mass produce LCD panels for consumer electronic...