Samsung annual reshuffle postponed due to corruption investigation

Samsung finds itself ensnared in a corruption scandal that may very well end up bringing down the presidency of Park Guen-hye in South Korea. The headquarters of Samsung Electronics have already been raided during the course of the investigation and the conglomerate’s heir apparent Lee Jae-yong has been questioned by prosecutors over Samsung’s alleged involvement. The conglomerate has now decided to postpone its annual December reshuffle of top executives...

Leap Motion will soon make its way to mobile VR headsets

Leap Motion gives more life to virtual reality by allowing users to include their hands within the VR experience. However, this was only limited to PCs and consoles. But that changes now, to some extent anyway. Leap Motion has just shown off a reference design built on top of a Gear VR, which comes with adjusted sensors to fit mobile VR headsets. In order to adjust to the smaller screens, the mobile compatible Leap Motion sensors will have a...

November security patch now arriving on the Galaxy S5 in Europe

Samsung is distributing last month’s security patch for the factory unlocked model of the Galaxy S5 in Europe. The upgrade has already started making the rounds in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, but is expected to make its way to other countries in the continent later this week. For those in need of a refresher, the November security release bundles dozens of patches for Vulnerabilities and Exposures (SVE) in the Android Operating System (OS),...

Daily Deal: Bag yourself a brand new ArtPC Pulse for $1,099

If you’re in the market for a new desktop computer, you may want to listen up as we have a fantastic deal for you. While stock lasts, you can pick up the Intel i5 variant of Samsung’s brand new ArtPC Pulse for $1,099.99 and the Intel i7 model for $1,499.99. That’s a total saving of $100 off each device. Both units pack a full metal body design with circular ambient lighting, a Harman Kardon 360-degree speaker unit, a 256GB NVMe SSD and an AMD Radeon...

Samsung ruled the NAND flash market in Q3 2016

The Galaxy Note 7 may have been a catastrophe for Samsung’s mobile division in the previous quarter but the company’s other divisions saw tremendous growth during the same period. A new report from market research firm DRAMeXchange shows that Samsung Electronics ruled the NAND flash market in the third quarter of this year. Samsung has been investing heavily in this space to maintain dominance. Earlier this year the company expanded 3D NAND flash...

Samsung-made circuit board might power the iPhone 8′s OLED display

It has been rumored time and again that Apple is going to shift to OLED displays for the iPhone and given that Samsung has a strong position in the mobile OLED market it’s going to be the one supplying its rival with the display panels. A new report out of South Korea claims that Korea-based suppliers BH and Interflex have ramped up production of flexible printed circuit boards that Apple is going to use for the iPhone 8. Samsung Electro-Mechanics...

Report: Samsung Galaxy Note 7′s aggressive internal design led to explosions

Samsung promised that it would announce the results of its investigation regarding battery problems in the Galaxy Note 7 later this month. However, Instrumental, a company that makes engineering tools, took upon itself to find the cause of fire and explosions in the Galaxy Note 7. According to the Instrumental’s examination of the Galaxy Note 7, the primary cause of the problem wasn’t with the battery...

Gear S2 gets loads of features from the Gear S3 in latest update

Samsung today confirmed that it’s releasing the second Gear S2 Value Pack update which brings over loads of features from the Gear S3 to the Gear S2. This update brings additional customization options for the Gear S2 as users will now be able to download and use the Gear S3′s preloaded watch faces via the Galaxy Apps store. The Gear S2 also gets support for the new Reminders app and the Alti-Barometer...