UPDATE: The vulnerability has been fixed, claims Samsung employee. [See below] Find My Mobile by Samsung allows users to track their phone and in case of a theft, remotely lock or wipe the phone and even ring the phone. Although a nifty service, a serious vulnerability has been found that could enable hackers to use […]
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HERE Maps released for Samsung smartphones
HERE, owned by Nokia today released the beta version of its HERE Maps for Samsung smartphones. HERE for Android (as it’s called) will work with Samsung smartphones that run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and over 1GB of RAM and serve as an alternate option to the prevalent Google Maps. We played with the app briefly […]
Gear S gets Opera Mini browser
Opera has confirmed that Opera Mini will be the first web browser to feature in Samsung’s standalone Gear S smartwatch. The browser will enable smartwatch users surf the internet from the wrist and even compress the webpages to deliver a faster surfing experience and save on the 3G bandwidth. Opera seems to have tweaked the […]
Samsung to migrate to Microsoft Word internally
Samsung has confirmed that beginning Jan 1 2015, the company will start using Microsoft Word as the main word processing software in the organisation. The Electronics arm will be the first one to adopt Microsoft’s Word software and will be followed by other Samsung affiliates. Samsung currently uses JungUm Global since 1994 but will migrate […]
Samsung India unveils Club Samsung 2.0 for Galaxy devices
Samsung India’s MSC (Media Solutions Center) division today announced the improved version of its Club Samsung service. Club Samsung 2.0 for the uninitiated, is similar in nature to now-discontinued Samsung Hub and offers music, movies, videos & mobile TV to Indian Samsung Galaxy users. Club Samsung 2.0 however, builds on the fact that it is […]