SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The German unit of Samsung Electronics Co. has distributed free polishing cloths used to clean smartphones to customers. Experts assume that it is a part of Samsung’s marketing offensive aimed at Apple Inc.’s newly released polishing cloth, which sells for US$19. Technology blog 9to5Mac reported that Samsung Electronics GmbH [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. has pledged to provide an alternative payment system at its app store in South Korea, the telecommunications regulator said Thursday, in what could be a concession amid a tug-of-war over lucrative payment systems in the app market. The commitment is part of follow-up measures to a new [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Wednesday that it plans to introduce 5G-equipped buses across the country by 2023, giving citizens access to free wireless internet that is up to four times faster. The Ministry of Science and ICT said 29,100 out of 35,000 city buses across the country will be upgraded [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, apologized Monday for the inconvenience caused by disruptions of its services that affected customers across the country. KT’s services, including the internet, payment and phone call services, were disrupted beginning at around 11 a.m. KT appeared to have recovered most of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled new color variants for the Galaxy Z Flip3 and special collaboration models with the music and fashion company Maison Kitsune for its smartwatch and wireless earbuds. In its latest “Unpacked” online event, the tech giant said its customers can now individualize their clamshell-type [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone users are spending more time on video sharing platform TikTok and video streaming service Netflix than last year, a survey showed Tuesday. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp conducted a survey of 38.7 million Android smartphone users and 8.6 million iOS smartphone users over 10 years of age, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are spending more time on mobile apps, with their average daily usage hours of such apps breaking the five hour mark in the third quarter of this year for the first time in history, an industry tracker said. The number of app downloads worldwide totaled 36 billion [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, has announced the world’s first commercialization of a Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)-based Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) in collaboration with security solutions company ICTK Holdings. PUF is a technology that prevents counterfeits or modifications using the difference in microstructure of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has partnered with some high-profile filmmakers to produce movies with its Galaxy smartphones as the South Korean tech giant aims to better promote its mobile devices. Samsung started a campaign called “Filmed #withGalaxy” with an aim to encourage people to expand their creativity [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. doesn’t look that happy despite higher than expected sales of its new foldable smartphones primarily because the company is having difficulty satisfying robust demand due to a global chip shortage. The combined domestic sales of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and the Galaxy Z Flip3 surpassed the [...]