Samsung

Remember that picture above? Samsung was the sponsor behind Ellen DeGeneres’s headline-grabbing, record-breaking, Twitter-busting “selfie” at the Oscars. For Samsung, it was part of a much larger, longer-term march to become one of the most talked about brands in America. For quite a number of years running, Coke was the most talked about brand in Continue Reading →

Samsung copied Apple’s iPhone as it tried to figure out how to react and compete with the device, Apple attorneys told a court on Tuesday. Because of that, Samsung should pay Apple about $2 billion in damages, they said. Harold McElhinny, one of the lead attorneys in Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, said during Continue Reading →

What happens when you roll out a particular device that you have designated it to be a flagship model? Why, it would most probably come with its fair share of features that ought to blow most minds away. Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone is not an exception, either, and it does seem as though it Continue Reading →

I’m sitting on the terrace of my hotel room overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem… the mid-afternoon Adhan can be clearly heard coming from the Muslim Quarter, the sounds of construction add a strange drum beat to the traditional call to prayer. The juxtaposition of old and new is ubiquitous in Israel, as are heated Continue Reading →

Samsung really wants to offer consumers who buy one of its new, 4K-capable TV sets access to ultra-high-definition content — and it has found a pretty remarkable way to do so: Beginning next month, the company will start to sell consumers a hard drive pre-loaded with 4K movies. The price tag of this product, which Continue Reading →

After shutting down its music streaming service in January, Samsung is back with a brand new way for you to rock out. ‘Milk Music’ is a newly-launched, free streaming radio service available to everyone with a Galaxy phone. Powered by Slacker Radio, Milk Music was built to be simple, interruption-free and user-friendly. Ad-free – at Continue Reading →

In a few years, Samsung’s new Internet-connected TVs might come with an extra function that you may not  have expected: switching on and off living room lights. “It will be a new interface that drops the usage of cursors, allowing the user to point to objects that exist beyond the TV screen,” Kim Seok-joong, the Continue Reading →

Hot off the launch of Beats Music, does the world need yet another music streaming service? Samsung’s about to find out. In January, Samsung actually shut down its streaming service for US customers — but now, it’s coming back as something completely different. Today the company’s introducing Milk Music, a free streaming radio service designed Continue Reading →

After months of leaks and speculation, Samsung finally took the wraps off its newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S5. Samsung’s phones already track the steps you take and the calories you burn, but the S5’s can track your heart rate through a fingertip sensor on the back of the phone. Samsung’s newest phone also comes Continue Reading →

When we reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 back in October, we noticed that it was doing something funny. Launching most benchmarking applications would kick the phone’s CPU into overdrive, forcing all CPU cores to run at their maximum rated speeds for as long as the application was open. Maxing out the CPU frequencies threw a Continue Reading →