Google unveiled Android L today – the next version of Android OS – at the Google I/O today and while there are many changes and improvements in the new Android version, one particular improvement is in the enterprise security feature. The interesting part about this is that part of Samsung’s Knox technology will be integrated […]
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Samsung Apps will be renamed as Samsung Galaxy Apps from July 1
Samsung’s homegrown app store will undergo a name change from next month. Starting July 1, Samsung Apps will be renamed as Samsung Galaxy Apps. The reason for the name change is not clear but we guess Samsung wants to segregate app stores for each platform. Earlier this month, Samsung announced to discontinue listing of bada […]
Nuance reportedly in talks of a sale to Samsung
Nuance Communications has reportedly been in discussions with companies for selling off the company. According to Wall Street Journal’s sources, the company has been in talks with quite a few private equity firms but the report singles out Samsung as one of the contenders. Nuance Communications’ technologies are used in Samsung devices and even provide […]
Samsung and Apple drop patent appeal case at the ITC
Last week, Samsung and Apple decided to drop the appeal of their patent infringement case at the US International Trade Commission. This is a positive step from both the companies as they have been entangled in a legal battle for few years. Samsung dropped the appeal where they were trying to reverse the ITC sales […]
U.S. Defense Department approves five Samsung devices with KNOX
Samsung has confirmed that five of its devices have been included in the Defense Information System Agency (DISA)’s Approved Products List (APL). The devices include Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Active, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note PRO and Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) that come with Android 4.4 KitKat and KNOX pre-installed. Surprisingly, there’s no Galaxy […]