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Australia regulator sues Samsung, says water resistance ads misleading

CANBERRA: Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Australian unit for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy smartphones as suitable to...

Samsung launches folding smartphone, first 5G handset

SEOUL: Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a smartphone that folds open to be a tablet, becoming the first major manufacturer to offer the feature as...

Samsung shares first glimpse of foldable phone

SAN FRANCISO: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its much-anticipated foldable phone to developers in San Francisco on Wednesday, urging Android programmers to start writing...

Samsung sues its brand ambassador for using an iPhone in public

RUSSIA: You would think that Samsung at this point would have learned that paying high-profile celebrities to “promote” the brand may not be the...

Samsung opens world’s largest phone factory in India

MUMBAI: Samsung Electronics has formally opened a new factory in India, which the South Korean tech group says is the world’s biggest mobile phone...

Samsung’s ex-employee becomes S Korea’s #MeToo champion

SEOUL: The ground for the wave of #MeToo accusations sweeping socially conservative South Korea was laid by a defiant saleswoman who took on the...

Apple prepares to release biggest iPhone ever

SAN JOSE: Apple is preparing to release three new smartphones later this year, including the largest iPhone ever, a device that may have a...

Samsung unveils S9 with augmented reality features

BARCELONA: Samsung unveiled its new flagship smartphone with a focus on augmented reality features as it seeks to keep its title as the world's...

Apple surpasses Samsung in smartphone market: survey

Apple overtook Samsung in the fourth quarter as the largest smartphone producer in a declining global market for handsets, research firm IDC said Friday. A...

Samsung expected to have sold 10 million Note 8 devices

Samsung is expected on Tuesday to forecast a record quarterly profit in the fourth quarter, as a world hungry for processing power and high-tech...

The Top 10 Gadgets of 2017

When it comes to new gadgets and gizmos, 2017 was the year of several big changes. First and foremost, it was the year of...

Apple looking to make a foldable iPhone that can be ‘opened...

The concept of foldable phones has been around for quite some time. Lenovo earlier this year showcased a folding tablet prototype that becomes phones...

Samsung Galaxy Note 8, ‘Phablet’ to give iPhone 8 a run...

NEW YORK: Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a new model of its Galaxy Note as it seeks to leave behind the debacle over exploding batteries in...

Samsung heir jailed for five years on corruption charges

Lee Jae-Yong's penalty could leave the giant firm rudderless for years and hamper its ability to make key investment decisions

Verdict in corruption trial for Samsung heir weighs on telecom giant

Lee Jae-Yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and the son of Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-Hee, has been groomed all his life to take over the giant conglomerate founded by his grandfather in 1938.

S.Korea political scandal: Samsung at the centre of it

Samsung Electronics Co’s sponsorship of the equestrian athlete daughter of a long-time friend of President Park Geun-Hye has helped to land South Korea’s top...

Samsung to disable Note 7 phones via software update

Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a software update for Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be released mid-December in the United States preventing...