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ANALYSIS Samsung has two important dates this week which will bring either joy or sorrow to the company. The Galaxy Note 8 is slated for launch in New York on Wednesday, a device that the company hopes will erase the memories of the Note7 which turned into a fiasco last year.

Samsung has plans to release refurbished versions of the Galaxy Note7 in July. The company had to pull it off the shelves last year due to the propensity of the device to explode.

Fire seems to be dogging Samsung Electronics, with a storeroom belonging to the Samsung Experience Store in Singapore's AMK Hub shopping centre experiencing a blaze in early hours of Tuesday.

Samsung has announced plans to sell its Galaxy Note7 devices in some markets after refurbishing them. They could also be used as rental phones, both where applicable.

Samsung Electronics will finally get rid of the Galaxy Note7 device that caused it no end of problems last year, when several phones combusted.

Public memory is short and people probably do not have the Samsung Galaxy Note7 disaster at the forefront of their thoughts these days.

Jailed Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been questioned for a third time since his arrest over bribery allegations related to a corruption scandal that has seen the South Korean parliament vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye.

Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong has been formally arrested on charges of bribery in connection with an influence-peddling scandal that has led to a vote for impeachment of the country's president, Park Geun-hye.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a smaller capacity battery than the ill-fated Note7 which literally went down in flames.

South Korea has announced that it will increase the safety requirements for lithium-ion batteries in the wake of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 incidents.

Despite its claims of testing more than 200,000 Galaxy Note7 devices, 30,000 batteries and using people from its own units and two other outfits, in the end Samsung Electronics still does not know the "root cause" of the issues it faced.

Samsung's official investigation into its Galaxy Note7 device, which began to explode and catch fire a month after release, has found that it was due to the irregular size of some batteries while others had manufacturing defects, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

More than three months after it was forced to pull the Galaxy Note7 from production, Samsung Electronics has finally given an indication of when it will make an official statement about the fiasco.

The issues with Samsung's Galaxy Note7 device that led to it exploding and catching fire have been found to be caused by the battery, Reuters reports, quoting "a person familiar with the matter".

Senior executives of South Korea's largest business group Samsung have been questioned by investigators who are seeking to get to the bottom of allegations over influence-peddling that have led to the country's parliament voting to impeach President Park Geun-hye.

Australian owners of Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices, who are still hanging on to them, will no longer be able to use them for communication from today.

Engineers from the manufacturing technology company Instrumental have reported that the Samsung Galaxy Note7 exploded because the battery was packed too tightly inside the body of the device.

A poll carried out by Reuters and Ipsos on whether the Galaxy Note7 recall damaged Samsung's brand in the US has thrown up rather dubious findings.

Environmental activist organisation Greenpeace has questioned what Samsung plans to do with the remaining manufactured Galaxy Note7 devices, after production was halted due to fears of explosions.

Memories of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 fiasco are fading for the moment but people appear to have used the episode for inspiration when it came to Halloween costumes.