Samsung will globally live stream Galaxy Note 7 explanation event on January 23 (22 in US)

It's officially official now - Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 investigations are over, with findings and a quality enhancement plan going public in a few days.

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Forget early Galaxy S8 release, as ongoing Note 7 investigation may actually hold it back

While it remains unclear if there will ever be a Galaxy Note 8 after the Note 7 fiasco, perhaps a late 2017 high-end Samsung phablet with a different name, or just one flagship model for all of next year, the chaebol needs the H1 2017 Galaxy S8 to be a hit like it needs air.And yes, in a way, it makes perfect sense to

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Apparently, Samsung conducted pre-release Galaxy Note 7 battery testing in-house

History has a bad habit of repeating itself, so before we cut Samsung some slack and forget all about the double Galaxy Note 7 recall fiasco, focusing instead on the next big thing and previous big thing, it’s important we learn exactly what went wrong in the phablet’s production, quality control and commercial approval processes.

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South Korean government probes into Galaxy Note 7 issue

Samsung has been looking into why the Galaxy Note 7 can’t keep a battery happy for the past couple of months. Of course, through the first month, the company did so with a goal in mind: to get the phone back on sale.But now that it’s pulling every unit it can from customers’ hands and

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Samsung Mobile president apologizes for Note 7 debacle

Samsung has now issued an apology from the top over the battery issues of the Galaxy Note 7 that have caused dozens of explosions worldwide.Mobile communications division president Dong-jin Koh bowed his head in front of the South Korean press today, saying that he was just as frustrated about the situation as his customers were and “would at any cost

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Galaxy Note 7 investigation will still take a few weeks, but freebies are offered now to Korean customers

As the (literal) dust starts to settle on the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7, Samsung’s marketing, engineering, quality control and designing teams need to once again work overtime to stop the chaebol from bleeding money.This time, it’s not about getting a head start or stealing a rival’s thunder, but rather definitively identifying mistakes ...

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No clear answers on why Note 7 explodes, but Galaxy S7 is the clear replacement for now

The Galaxy Note 7 has a tendency to explode — that we’ve known for sure since late August. We still don’t know why it’s happened at a consistent and alarmingly frequent rate. That’s what multinational government investigators are trying to figure out right now.At ...

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Galaxy Note 7 shipments officially ‘adjusted’, as explosion tally continues to rise

Can’t we just fast-forward to March 2017, when the purportedly game-changing Galaxy S8 will arrive to silence haters, restore Samsung’s reputation, and turn the Galaxy Note 7 into a long-forgotten nightmare?Unfortunately for the world’s most popular (still) smartphone vendor, it’s never that easy. And if the increasingly likely prospect of a second global recall materializes, the Korean tech giant may need more than a few months to play the scandal down.While the circumstances of

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FBI reportedly finds nothing of ‘real significance’ on decrypted iPhone 5c

In addition to setting a dangerous precedent, compromising decades of diligent work in the service of user privacy protection, and possibly building a master key for all of the world’s iPhones that could always fall into the wrong hands, Apple’s supporters in its FBI ...

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ZTE will find it hard sourcing US parts with Commerce Department notice

American sanctions may have lightened up on Iran as the country continues to wind off nuclear production of potentially fissile material, but the Commerce Department is ready to tack on a major penalty to Chinese telecommunications company ZTE.The department plans on beginning export restrictions on all of ZTE’s global suppliers which will make it nearly impossible for them to ship any US-made parts to ...

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Apple ID password on San Bernardino iPhone changed in FBI custody

Apple believes it is fighting a fight that should not have had to surface in the first place. As Cupertino is in the midst of digging up facts and arguments to counter a law enforcement order and the US government’s subsequent force de frappe in enforcing it, it has found a key fact that could subvert the basis of that order.The company was ...

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Legere attacks USA TODAY for reporting on allegations against T-Mobile

Labor unions have had their problems with T-Mobile. The National Labor Relations Board ruled against T-Mobile earlier this year, deeming it crossed federal labor laws by not allowing its employees to join or form a union. Big Magenta is about into another fight, this one against consumer advocates on its basic premise of being the “Un-carrier.”USA TODAY reports that a labor and consumer organization called Change to Win is alleging to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that T-Mobile is ...

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