“Now, the online music market is shifting to a new paradigm of streaming radio. Meanwhile, Samsung with its deep pocket is spending fortunes in the name of an “innovative free music service,” which is in effect destroying the legitimate music streaming market that all the parties of the music industry took a decade to nurture. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean car owners now can select most suitable junkyard operators with a handful of screen touches on their smartphones. Maxmine, a mobile content provider in Korea, introduced an auction-style car scrappage service application, “Carapp” on October 13. The app enables the car owners to choose the best auto recycling center [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics held a unique cooking class event for families — mothers and their children — allowing them to make various shapes of Halloween cookies using its proprietary lightwave oven. The cooking class was held at CJ CheilJedang Center in Seoul on October 13 and guided the participants to learn useful recipes [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, the second largest mobile carrier in Korea, opened a dedicated website for EyeWire, an online video game platform in which so called “citizen scientists” can exchange their ideas supporting the completion of brain map, “connectome,” while also enjoy gaming. KT decided to team up with Sebastian Seung, a world [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A night race with bright LED lanterns which offered splendid milky way-like lightings to the autumn night runners was successfully held — to make the world brighter and generate positive energy in the society, according to the company. On October 11, about 10,000 runners joined the largest night marathon [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In the second half of this year, movie theaters are releasing a series of films that have caused societal shock or even trauma. Having attracted over 1 million viewers since its first run on October 2, “The Informant” directed by Im Soon-Rye is an infamous story about stem cell [...]
“As is applicable to other entertainment programs, it will be better, to my understanding, if we drop the program when the audience most loves it. I don’t want to direct the final episode when there is nothing but indifference or finger pointing left.” “Although it was low in viewer ratings at the beginning, we have managed this program [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics’ wearable children tracker “KizON” received a “Green Product” certificate from a renowned international certification organization in Europe, TÜV Rheinland, a first entity to recognize credible eco-friendliness for wearable devices. KizON received the Eco-Label from the Ministry of Environment last June by meeting several criteria including low emission [...]
ASSAMSTADT, GERMANY, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Ecom’s new intrinsically safe Smartphone Smart-Ex® 01 and Featurephone Ex-Handy 09 set new paradigms in mobile worker collaboration, safety, security and ease of use in Oil & Gas, Refining, Chemical, Pharmaceuticals, and other hazardous industries as well as their contractors and service providers. Following ecom’s roots and decades [...]
Tokyo, Oct. 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — Off Line Corporation (Koichi Ishizuka, President and CEO) releases AirTalk (iOS version) the world’s first proximity-based Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) smartphone communication application. Japanese and English language versions are supported in the initial release. AirTalk allow users to create a Wi-Fi and BLE-based ad-hoc mesh network with a [...]