Daily Archives: March 21, 2016

Taken off shelves last year, LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE is now back on sale

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If you recall, LG halted sales of its Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE in November last year, something which happened just a week after the smartwatch was launched. At that time, the company said that the device has a a faulty component which can potentially bring down the wearable’s image quality over time.

Looks like the South Korean company has fixed the issue in question as the timepiece is now back on sale. It’s currently up for pre-orders on AT&T, which is selling it for $360 outright, or $18 a month for 20 months.

Alternatively, you can also purchase it for $100 on a 2-year…

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Is Samsung Looking At Social Media Innovation To Boost Its Mobile Phone Revenues?

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Samsung Electronics recently announced that it will showcase three previously secret projects at this year’s South by Southwest festival. All three are from C-Lab, the innovation program the company operates to help its employees to nurture their own creative business ideas. The first is Waffle, an innovative social media platform that is designed to enable collaborative content creation on smartphones. The second is Hum On!, a mobile app that notates and plays back hummed melodies in a range of instrumentation. And the third is Entrim 4D, a virtual reality headset that allows users too sense and feel a motion as actions are seen and heard. The company aims to gather feedback and assess the market potential of these products by showcasing them at SXSW. For Samsung’s mobile phone division, in particular, these new products offer the potential to increase market traction against competing platforms. Across its consumer offering, Samsung is using innovative software and hardware designs to boost potential growth.

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Automotive Regulatory Harmonization to Remain Unattainable Holy Grail

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For decades, one of the biggest challenges faced by automotive engineers around the world has been often wildly divergent regulations for safety, emissions and fuel economy. The differences have forced the design and engineering of unique powertrains and body structures to sell what are ostensibly the same car in different parts of the world, dramatically increasing costs and limiting product availability in many markets. The latest person to try to bring this problem under control is Dan Nicholson, General Motors vice-president of global propulsion engineering and president-elect of FISITA.

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Facebook Still Wants To Crack China But It Maybe Too Late

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg might have made headlines last week jogging in heavily polluted Beijing without wearing a mask. In spite of the publicity the run has generated, China remains a tough market for Facebook to crack. The world’s second largest economy is dominated by home grown social networks and instant messaging apps. It could be too late for Facebook to enter the contest.

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