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Samsung heir handed five-year jail sentence

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Jay Y Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been convicted of bribery and sentenced to five years in prison, a blow to the heir apparent of the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. A three-judge

Samsung debuts Galaxy Note8, now flame-free

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The stakes are high for Samsung Electronics’ roll-out of the Note 8, after the previous model’s exploding battery fiasco last year. Like the Note 7, which was scrapped and cost the South Korean company an estimated

Android extends its dominance in mobile

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More than 87% of all smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2017 shipped with Google’s Android operating system, with Apple’s iOS – the operating system used on iPhones – the only other platform to feature, with 12.1% market share

The mobile broadband SA is missing out on

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The allocation of large swathes of additional radio frequency spectrum to operators is key to unlocking next-generation speeds in mobile broadband to be delivered by technologies such as LTE-Advanced, LTE-Advanced

Samsung just posted its biggest profit ever

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Samsung Electronics topped analyst estimates with its best-ever operating profit as global demand for semiconductors remained strong and the new Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone won over customers. Operating income rose to

Smartphone sales in SA, rest of Africa tank

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Mobile phone sales in South Africa and the broader continent fell “drastically” in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the fourth quarter of last year, new research released by International Data Corp this week showed. The technology

Galaxy S8 review: Samsung smashes a home run

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After spending the best part of a month with Samsung’s new Galaxy S8, it’s impossible to draw any other conclusion: this is the best smartphone in the world right now — yes, better than the iPhone, and better than the panoply of