SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – By making practical use of big data on weather, road slopes and floating population, the Korean government plans to offer accident forecast services to drivers to reduce traffic accidents. Korea Cadastral Survey Corporation (KCSC) announced on October 5 that it would lead a consortium to develop “Pilot Project of Disaster [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As smartphones are increasingly used to check the weather or view maps on a trip, the rising number of applications for travel information is waiting for being approved for patents. The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on August 21 that the number of patent applications of travel apps was 49 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to support technology start-ups and entrepreneurs who plan to build start-ups related to the spatial information industry, the South Korea government plans to tie them with angel investors. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will hold the first “Spatial Information Angel Investment Inducement, Education & Mentoring” event [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Data centers, long considered energy hogs, have rapidly emerged as the pioneer of smart energy technology. KT, Korea’s largest telecom service provider, said on August 5 that it would expand its Cloud Data Center in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, to create the world’s best green data center. To that end, the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration (RDA) began a service offering future climate information by simply entering the number of land lot in its website(www.agdcm.kr). It opened the agro-climate map database to revitalize the usage of public data in the government 3.0 era and for individual farmers to employ it for their convenience. The [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Team Germany won the World Cup championship in Sunday’s final against Argentina. The German players earned 18 goals in seven World Cup games, thanks to the help of SAP, the German multinational software company. Last year, then-German national team manager Oliver Bierhoff discovered that his players were very familiar with communication through [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Big data is used in various fields not only in retail, construction, media or financial sectors. Big data has unlimited possibilities and can help create effective results through the integration of data with other sectors. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) recently published a special issue of its journal “Meteorological Policy” to [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Electric Power Corp. said on July 11 that it would set out pilot “big data” projects from this month. The two pilot projects involve setting up an energy consulting business based on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data and establishing a risk forecasting system based on analysis of social networking service [...]
SEOUL, June 19, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Acroverse Creative, a Korean company that designs mobile interfaces and applications for customers around the world, has chosen IBM cloud to help it expand globally. The company will deploy its File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service on cloud infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM company, to [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Not unlike any other big cities, it is hard to hail a taxi cab and get one in Seoul. Especially in some crowed places like Gangnam, Jongro and Sinchon during the late night after midnight, it is literally impossible to take one. To solve the problem, the Seoul Metropolitan City government will [...]