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Samsung Pay —the most widely accepted mobile payment system—celebrates its first anniversary in the U.S., building on the digital wallet’s record of success. In just one year, Samsung Pay has driven innovation, adding features like support for membership and gift cards and coupons, allowing users to slim down their wallets. Samsung Pay now supports over 500 banks and credit unions, representing over 80 percent of the debit and credit card market in the U.S. Samsung Pay also now offers new features including an in-app coupon service to search, store and redeem coupons, as well as a new cloud storage feature to restore membership, gift and Samsung Reward cards whenever they sign into a new device.   “Since its launch a year ago, Samsung Pay has redefined what consumers can expect from a digital wallet,” said Nana Murugesan , VP/GM of Service and New Business at Samsung Electronics America. “Samsung Pay has led the way for mobile payments in the U.S. by providing our customers innovat

Samsung Electronics and SAP SE, today held the opening ceremony for a joint research center where engineers will conduct R&D for memory solutions to be used in next-generation in-memory computing. The ceremony was held at Samsung Electronics’ Hwaseong campus in South Korea with Dr. Young-Hyun Jun, President of Samsung Electronics’ Memory Business and Adaire Fox-Martin, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan participating, as well as other executives from both companies.   The establishment of the research center is part of an extended partnership between the two world-leading corporations, under which the two will focus on in-memory technology development that enables faster data processing and more insightful analyses of rapidly increasing amounts of data.   The two companies intend to lead the push for more advanced global in-memory market offerings by conducting cutting-edge research of next-generation DRAM for customer solutions and working together on their commercialization.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 replacement program has been underway for a couple of weeks now. It’s voluntarily replacing all Galaxy Note 7 units that have been shipped since the handset was released last month. There have been some reports of overheating issues with replacement Galaxy Note 7 units which are supposed to have a battery that doesn’t explode unexpectedly . Samsung has now said that it’s investigating these reports. Samsung has confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it’s looking into reports out of South Korea and the United States that new Galaxy Note 7 units are overheating. Some consumers who reported this issue said that the new handset would get too hot to place next to the ear during a phone call. Samsung has already promised to replace one such customer’s handset. “There have been a few reports about the battery charging levels and we would like to reassure everyone that the issue does not pose a safety concern,” the company said in a statement issued to the scribe,

The beta channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.41 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. A partial list of changes is available in the log . Interested in switching release channels? Find out how . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues. Richard Bustamante Google Chrome

Welcome to the latest edition of  Wallpaper Wednesday . This week we’re focusing our attention on six illustration backgrounds. All images are available in a FHD resolution, which is a perfect fit for the  Galaxy S7 ,  Galaxy S7 edge ,  Galaxy Note 5  and other flagships, but they can, of course, be used on different smartphones, too. If any of the following images float your boat and you want to download and set one as your wallpaper, simply tap on a photo to maximise it, then click and hold to save it. Once the picture is stored locally, open up  Settings , locate and select  Wallpaper , then just tap the newly-saved image to set it as your background. Alternatively, you can download a ZIP file containing all of this week’s backdrops by hitting the  Download  button at the very bottom of this post. Alice in Wonderland Big Bear Connection Rainy Day Space Monkey Stairway to Where? Download Note:  We’ve tried our best to identify the creators of all of the wallpap

We first reported two months ago that Samsung was working on another mid-range smartphone and that it might be a refresh of the Galaxy Grand Prime which was first launched two years ago. Last month it surfaced on Geekbench to give us a glimpse at its specifications and just two weeks ago the handset received its Wi-Fi certification , suggesting that a launch isn’t that far off now. Those who have been waiting for it will be happy to know that the Galaxy Grand Prime (2016) has now cleared the FCC as well. The Federal Communications Commission needs to clear a handset before it can be sold and it has awarded the relevant certification to the Galaxy Grand Prime (2016). The FCC filing shows that there’s going to be a dual-SIM variant of this handset as well. As far as its specifications are concerned, the Galaxy Grand Prime (2016) is expected to feature a 1.4GHz processor with 1.5GB RAM, a 5-inch HD display as well as an 8-megapixel rear and a 5-megapixel selfie camera. The specs won’

The September Security Maintenance Release is slowly making its way to handsets like the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge even though it’s almost the end of September. Latest reports reveal that this update is also being sent out to other Samsung handsets. Those who own the Galaxy A8 are now receiving this Security Maintenance Release which brings crucial patches for the OS to ensure that users are protected against any and all threats. This latest update for the Galaxy A8 weighs in at just under 300MB and it brings some overall improvements as well. Users will notice that the performance of Voice call has been improved and that battery usage has been optimized. They will also notice improved performance with efficient memory management, improved stability and security enhancements courtesy of the September 1 Android security patch level. Samsung detailed the September patch about three weeks ago, it includes the 66 latest patches from Google and nine from Samsung. As per reports

Huawei has established itself as a major player in the smartwatch market by offering some great wearable devices that are powered by Google’s Android Wear. Samsung is its competitor in this market, the South Korean conglomerate has launched a couple of impressive Tizen-powered smartwatches which provide an alternative to Google’s operating system. A report out of South Korea claims that Huawei is working with Samsung to launch a smartwatch that’s going to be powered by Tizen. It’s surprising because the company has not previously given any indication that it wants to move away from Android Wear. However, it would make sense for Huawei to adopt Tizen OS given that it was one of the first members of the Tizen Association which included the likes of Intel, Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic and others. South Korean local daily JoongAng Ilbo quoted a Samsung official as saying that “Huawei was looking for an Operating System (OS) other than Google’s Android as the US firm had not been very

Samsung Electronics and Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced a partnership that will provide carriers with integrated network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructure and virtual network functions (VNF) solutions. This kind of collaboration is critical to both carriers and customers increasingly looking to implement pre-tested and integrated multi-vendor solutions based on an open architecture.   The new partnership brings together two best-in-class solutions, merging Samsung’s carrier network and HPE’s IT telecommunications expertise. Together, the solutions will help carriers accelerate their transformation from networks built on monolithic, proprietary appliances to more agile cloud-based networks enabled by NFV.   “Samsung is confident in maintaining its stance as a pioneer in delivering advanced technologies required to lead the next generation market, like open ecosystem based NFV,” said Woojune Kim, Vice President and Head of Strategy Group in Next Generation comm

We recently started notifying our awesome readers about deals on Samsung products  that we come across every day, and today we are bringing you a brilliant deal on Samsung’s wireless speaker. The black variant of the Level Box Bluetooth speaker is being sold in the US for just $62.4 through Amazon, and it is a discount of 63% over its regular price of $169.99. The white variant  is priced even lower at $44.99, which is a discount of a whopping 74% over its regular price. The Level Box portable Bluetooth speaker from Samsung features aptX audio codec for improved sound quality over a wireless connection. You can pair your smartphone easily using NFC, and the speaker can also be used to take calls, thanks to its inbuilt microphone. It has a metal design and weighs less than 600 grams. There are dedicated buttons for adjusting volume and to play or pause audio playback. Samsung claims that it can last for up to 15 hours on a single charge.  

Before I got the Rose Gold  Gear S2  Classic , I was not a fan of watches. I bought one a few years ago, wore it a few times, and after a short while I didn’t look at it again. Why wear a watch when I have my phone with me all the time? When my boyfriend started wearing smartwatches, I laughed at him. He was just like me, unused to wearing watches. And his watch didn’t look like something you see at the jewellers. The watch bands were made of plastic or rubber, and the screen was a square instead of a circle. Some people called it a sporty look, but I just didn’t think it was pretty. But when he switched to the Gear S2 Classic, I started to see the benefits of a smartwatch. The rounded screen and ribbed bezel looked way better than previous smartwatches. This one looks almost like a normal watch, especially after he bought a metal watch band. At that moment, I was kind of jealous, and when he showed me a picture of the 18K Rose Gold Gear S2, I was sold. I wanted one, and I wanted it

Samsung’s answer to Apple Pay – Samsung Pay is celebrating its first anniversary in the United States. Samsung says the acceptance of the service has been great in the last one year and in United States, the service is supported by over 500 banks and credit unions, representing over 80 percent of the debit and […]

Samsung has revealed that it has now exchanged  more than 60 percent of Galaxy Note 7′s that were believed to sport a faulty battery in the United States. This news comes just two weeks after the US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an official recall of over one million handsets in the region amid a little more than 90 reports surfacing from customers claiming that their handset had spontaneously bursting into flames while on charge. The firm released this latest statistic six days after ‘safe’  Galaxy Note 7 ‘s started being distributed in the region. Within the first day, the company announced that it had exchanged 130,000 of the one million affected devices. Now, however, it has reportedly removed more than 600,000 faulty handsets from circulation. Although,  reports have started to emerge claiming that the replacement models are just as dangerous as their predecessors.

After confirming the battery cell defect earlier this month Samsung announced that it will voluntarily replace all Galaxy Note 7 phones shipped since the handset was released. The global replacement program is underway and yet it appears to not be performing as well as it should be in Samsung’s own backyard. Local news reports suggest that Galaxy Note 7 users in South Korea don’t appear to be in a hurry to replace their units which pose a potential fire hazard, many of them are actually planning to exchange them next year. This is obviously making Samsung uncomfortable. The longer these faulty units stay out there the more chance there is of additional battery-related incidents taking place. It was the company’s aim to quickly get done with the replacement program and resume sales of the Galaxy Note 7 once again. Samsung has already had to extend the refund deadline in South Korea and even delay the resumption of sales in is home country because people just don’t seem to be in a hu

No matter how united the community, it can only thrive if it has the tools to do so independently. That’s why Samsung Electronics is working with developing regions through its Nanum Village program.   The Nanum Village project sees partnering with local governments to provide support. But what makes the effort so noteworthy is that it aims to tackle poverty at its source. And in addition, it helps villages to be the masters of their own destinies by enabling growth.     China is one of the important locations for Nanum Village program. After consultation with the government of Shaanxi, where Samsung’ semiconductor facility is located, Samsung selected Fuping County as a village location. The area received investments into its education, medical facilities, drinking water, and a community center. The Nanum Village enabled Samsung to further deepen relationship with the local area.   As part of the project, residents living were able to move in mountainous areas to flatter, more

Samsung is already facing a tough time in China with strong competitors like Apple in the high-end segment and local OEMs like Xiaomi and Huawei in the mid-range and low-end market segments. It may have been looking to improve its fortunes with the Galaxy Note 7 but now it risks seeing the opposite happen. Surveys conducted in China reveal that quite a few people say they will no longer buy Samsung smartphones following the Galaxy Note 7 recall. If that does turn out to be the case it would seriously dent Samsung’s business in one of the most lucrative mobile markets. In one survey 51.9 percent of the respondents in China said that they would not purchase a Samsung smartphone again due to the battery issues with its latest flagship. 37 percent of respondents said that they would buy an iPhone instead to replace their Samsung smartphone while others said they would go with local darling Huawei instead. Market analysts believe that the Galaxy Note 7 recall is going to result in a signi

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Listen to police and fire departments from around the world on your phone! Scanner Radio Pro   play.google.com.scannerradio_pro Listen to live audio from over 3,300 police and fire scanners, weather radios, and amateur radio repeaters from around the world (primarily in the United States and Australia though, with more being added daily). Features: Add scanners you listen to the most to your Favorites list for quick access. View scanners that are located nearest you, sorted by distance, by clicking on "Near Me" View the top 50 scanners that have the most listeners (updated every 5 minutes). View list of scanners added most recently (new additions are being added all the time). Browse the directory of scanner feeds by location or by genre (public safety, weather, railroad, etc). Configure alerts to have the app notify you when lots of people are listening to a scanner (indicating that something big may be happening). Add Scanner Radio widgets and/or shortcut

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