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Samsung phone catches fire in mid-air aboard Singapore-Chennai IndiGo flight
A major accident was averted when passengers on IndiGo 6E-054 flight from Singapore to Chennai noticed smoke…
Three Samsung phones erupt into fire in China, but no Chinese recall, yet
Samsung has found itself in a row with Chinese consumers, with some accusing the firm of being biased against them…
35% of those stuck with Samsung’s explosive Galaxy Note 7 want a refund, 26% want to upgrade to Apple’s iPhone 7
Over one third (35%) of beleaguered Samsung’s exploding, fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 owners want refunds…
Beleaguered Samsung has a ticking time bomb on its hands
Samsung’s problems with exploding Note7 batteries have compounded with many users preferring to hold onto potentially dangerous handsets…
Backfire: Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding phones triggered by rush to beat Apple’s iPhone 7
Earlier this year, managers at the South Korean company began hearing the next iPhone wouldn’t…
Florida man sues beleaguered Samsung after phone explodes in pocket
A-28-year-old man whose Galaxy Note7 exploded in his pocket while at work in Palm Beach Gardens…
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issues formal recall of beleaguered Samsung’s exploding phones
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday announced a formal recall of
Beleaguered Samsung phones unwelcome on NYC’s buses and trains
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New Jersey Transit are telling its customers not to use Samsung phones…
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners are ignoring the explosions, fires and safety warnings
Despite numerous warnings, owners of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 are choosing to ignore…
Samsung Galaxy S7 phone explodes in teacher’s hands in the middle of busy cafe
A Samsung Galaxy S7 owner fears she could have been killed as it overheated in her hand and exploded…
Samsung phone blows up in car passenger seat, causes huge highway explosion
A terrifying car fire was caused by a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 blowing up while on charge, police have said…
Beleaguered Samsung to issue desperate kludge in attempt to contain the exploding phone crisis
Beleaguered Samsung plans to issue a software update that will prevent phones from exploding by limiting battery recharges to under 60 percent…
Man sues beleaguered Samsung after exploding Galaxy S7 Edge causes massive 3rd degree burns
Daniel Ramirez was working construction at a bookstore in Ohio when his Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge caught fire in his pocket…
Beleaguered Samsung phone explodes in little boy’s hands, 6-year-old suffers burns
A 6-year-old Brooklyn boy suffered burns when one of Samsung’s phones…
Beleaguered Samsung sheds $26 billion in value after massive recall of explosive, dangerous, flawed Galaxy Note 7
When Samsung announced it would recall its Galaxy Note 7 devices due to dangerous explosions and fires…
iPhone 7’s new slogan translates to ‘This is penis’ in Cantonese
Apple’s ‘This is 7’ slogan for its new iPhone 7 has a rather unfortunate translation in Hong Kong…
FAA warns airline passengers not to use Samsung phones
U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to use Samsung phones…
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 destroys garage; home condemned due to fire
An Horry County man is looking for answers after his garage caught fire over the weekend…
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 destroys Florida man’s Jeep
They sent their 8-year-old daughter, with the family’s service dog, to get back in the vehicle, but…
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 burns down garage; destroys Jeep in another case; airlines now banning potentially deadly device
If you own a Galaxy Note 7, then it’s probably in your best interests to take advantage of Samsung’s exchange…
Apple orders more parts for iPhone 7 amid Samsung recalls
The hike in order volumes indicates that Apple still remains positive about replacement demand…
Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 damages Perth hotel room
The explosion charred the hotel room bed sheet and the carpet…
Beleaguered Samsung blows it in rush to beat Apple iPhone 7 to market
In its rush to beat rival products to market, notably Apple’s new iPhone, Samsung Electronics…
Apple stock up, may benefit from beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy devices
A rash of defective batteries that have caused Samsung Galaxy Note 7s to burst into flames…
Beleaguered Samsung to recall 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 units over exploding batteries
The recall puts Samsung, which has been trying to match the success of the Apple iPhone, in a precarious position…
Samsung may be forced to recall Galaxy Note 7 over exploding batteries
The hold on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 shipments because of quality issues that began on Wednesday may escalate to a wider consumer recall…
Samsung halts Galaxy Note 7 shipments due to battery explosions
Samsung was in such a hurry to launch the Galaxy Note 7 well ahead of its expected debut, and to beat Apple’s iPhone 7 to market, that it may have missed a thing…
Apple CEO Tim Cook and the rest of Silicon Valley throw big money at Clinton and pretty much bupkis at Trump
Tim Cook will mark his five-year anniversary as the CEO of Apple by doing something that his predecessor Steve Jobs typically avoided: hosting a fundraiser for a presidential candidate…
Apple Music has blood on its play button: Samsung shutters Milk Music streaming service
Milk Music launched in 2014 as a service that is exclusively for Samsung devices, but has struggled…
Speed Shootout: Apple’s year-old iPhone 6s destroys Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7
It was inevitable that Samsung’s latest 2016-released Galaxy Note 7 was going to be compared with Apple’s…
Apple dumps Samsung for TSMC to stamp Apple S2 chips for Apple Watch 2; launch coming soon
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will replace Samsung as the sole supplier of chips…
Trump’s nice tweets come from Apple iPhone, the not-so-nice ones come from Android phone
When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone…
Samsung Pay flaw lets thieves remotely collect credit card credentials
Samsung Pay’s legacy point-of-sale system compatibility mode may be insecure, as a token theft…
Japan Display, an Apple iPhone supplier, seeks financial help from Japanese government
A top maker of displays for Apple Inc. smartphones has asked a Japanese government-backed fund for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid…
Samsung’s patent application for smartwatch straps includes drawings of the Apple Watch
Samsung’s form factor patent figures were actually Apple Watch designs showing that indeed they set out to copy Apple’s design…
IDC: Apple iPad increases worldwide market share lead
Worldwide tablet shipments, inclusive of slates and detachables, reached 38.7 million in the second quarter of 2016…
Apple’s iPhone falls to 5th in China smartphone marketshare
In the battle for the Chinese smartphone market, Apple has lost ground in both marketshare and shipment quantities…
iOS users are worth 10X more than those who settle for Android
Strikingly, revenue is about ten times more per iOS device than Android…
Iris scanner likely for Apple’s iPhone in 2018
Smartphone brands have been gearing up efforts to develop biometrics recognition technology…
Irony Alert: Samsung sues Huawei for alleged patent violations
Samsung Electronics Co. sued Chinese smartphone maker Huawei for allegedly violating six of its patents…
Apple’s deadly attack on Samsung
Apple has pre-emptively neutered these complaints being attached to the iPhone 7 family by going…
