Samsung has announced a deeper collaboration with Google for its Play Music service. With the launch of Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ today, Google Play Music will be the default player on these new devices and any Samsung smartphones and tablets launching in 2017. Moreover, Samsung users can upload and stream up to 100,000 songs […]
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Researcher: Tizen OS is a security nightmare
For the last few years, Samsung has been prepping its Tizen OS to reduce its dependency and eventually replace Google’s Android OS. And the amount invested by Samsung and its partners is a testimony on how serious they are. However, one thing that they don’t seem to be serious is on security, which according to […]
Samsung officially launches Samsung Pay service in India
Earlier this month, Samsung initiated the early access program for Samsung Pay users in India. Now Samsung has formally introduced the service, enabling the service to all who have a compatible Samsung phone. Samsung Pay, for the uninitiated, is Samsung’s mobile payment solution that allows users to make payments from their cards to the merchant […]
Samsung confirms Bixby virtual assistant, coming first on Galaxy S8
Although not a secret, Samsung just confirmed that Bixby is their answer to virtual assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, et al. Samsung says instead of humans understanding machines, Bixby works the other way round by employing deep learning and artificial intelligence. Bixby in comparison claims to be different than other virtual AIs. Once an app […]
Samsung Pay goes live in India
Samsung last week invited interested users to sign up for the Early Access Program for Samsung Pay in India. Now, they have enabled access for users to transact through Samsung Pay. Samsung doesn’t seem to have a definitive list of which retailers it supports but a quick call to Samsung reveals that it should technically […]