Beautiful things: Brass vessels, Samsung’s easel TV and Tom Dixon furniture February 19, 2015 Make storage stylish with these handcrafted stacking vessels Storage is a vital, but throughly mundane, fact of life. Fortunately, the brother and sister team behind Utopia & Utility have come up with a solution that’s both functional and fashionable. These stacking vessels are actually three different containers made by three European craftsmen to form one [...]
Samsung to take on Apple in mobile payments sector with purchase of LoopPay February 18, 2015 Samsung has purchased LoopPay, a mobile wallet company that will rival Apple Pay and Google Wallet. The South Korean tech company has not disclosed the price of the deal it proclaimed will “accelerate the next wave of innovation in the digital smart wallet”. The move suggests that Samsung is ready to compete [...]
Samsung admits its smart TVs can listen to viewers’ conversations and pass them on to third parties February 9, 2015 If you have a Samsung Smart TV in your home, it's time to put an end to any incriminating conversations you might be having. It turns out the product's screen can listen to what you say and pass information on to third parties. Part of the company's privacy policy for its Smart [...]
Samsung admits its Smart TV will capture your personal conversations and send it to third parties February 8, 2015 Samsung’s Smart TV is a pretty swish product. It comes with on-demand TV, mobile applications and a screen resolution four times higher than average HD. The one setback? You just need to make sure you don’t hold any private conversations in front of the internet-connected TV, as its voice recognition technology will record your [...]
BlackBerry share price falls back after it denies Samsung takeover talk January 14, 2015 Telecoms firm BlackBerry sent its shares back down by more than 16 per cent in after hours trading last night, after denying that it had engaged in talks with Samsung about a multi-billion dollar buyout. Reuters reported last night that smartphone manufacturer Samsung had sent high level executives to meet with BlackBerry equivalents last week [...]
Samsung forecasts first annual profit drop in three years January 8, 2015 The world's biggest electronic company Samsung as predicted its first annual profit drop since 2011. The South Korean smartphone maker forecast operating profit of 5.2 trillion Korean won (£3bn) for the three months to December, down from 8.3 trillion won a year earlier. Despite this it beat an earlier estimate of 5 trillion won from [...]
CES 2015: The internet of things is coming soon says Samsung’s UK boss Andy Griffiths January 6, 2015 Samsung’s UK boss tells Oliver Smith in Las Vegas that self-controlling central heating and self-parking cars are around the corner Will internet-connected devices change your life over the next five years? Samsung, along with most of the other tech giants in the convention halls of Las Vegas where the global tech industry has amassed this [...]
CES 2015: Samsung unveils SUHD TV and new content store Milk to rival Netflix and iTunes January 5, 2015 With its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, only reportedly making an appearance behind closed doors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, Samsung last night instead chose to double down on its position as the world’s largest manufacturer of TVs. Samsung’s flagship product was its SUHD TV, a 88-inch screen [...]
CES 2015: Samsung reveals SUHD TV and Tizen smart TV platform January 5, 2015 Samsung has revealed a new line of ultra high-definition curved TVs it's calling SUHD which run on the new smart TV platform Tizen. In an event at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the firm revealed it already had a 60 per cent share of the UHD market, with its curved screens making up half of [...]
The best places to find Cyber Monday deals 2014: John Lewis, Tesco, Asos, Marks and Spencer, Game, Samsung, Halfords and Morrisons December 1, 2014 Beleaguered shoppers are still nursing their bruises and retailers are still fixing up their stores following UK's biggest-ever "Black Friday", yet the deals keep on coming. Tomorrow is "Cyber Monday", the internet's biggest shopping day of the year when online retailers offer consumers another chance to grab a bargain as the Christmas shopping season [...]