SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday that it has been recognized as an international certification institute to test the functional safety of software systems. LG said Tuesday its software testing center was accredited by the Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme as an institute to verify the IEC 61508-3 standard. IEC 61508-3 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp. said Monday it will establish a data center in a city south of Seoul in an industrial-educational cooperation project. Under a deal with Hanyang University and the Gyeonggi provincial government, the data center will be built on the university’s campus in Ansan, some [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An accelerator for tech startups operated by Naver Inc., South Korea’s largest internet portal operator, said Tuesday it has made new investments in two promising tech startups. Naver’s D2 Startup Factory, also known as D2SF, said it has selected the two startups that have expertise in developing solutions that [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the outbreak of the coronavirus dealing a major blow to the world economy, South Korea’s notebook PC makers reported better-than-expected first-quarter results in the domestic market primarily thanks to the ubiquity of online classes and the increase in telecommuting. Of note, LG Electronics Inc. enjoyed a sharp increase [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Computers made the list of South Korea’s top 10 export items again in the first quarter of the year amid the spread of teleworking due to the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Thursday. South Korean exports of computers and related products came to US$3.18 billion in the January-March period, accounting [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s PC market grew 7 percent last year from the previous year on the back of the Windows 10 transition in the commercial market, industry data showed Tuesday. Domestic PC shipments totaled 4.55 million units in 2019, up 7.2 percent from 2018, according to the data by market [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it will focus on “edge computing” that could hold the key to the success of artificial intelligence (AI) in the future. Edge computing refers to the practice of storing data on computers located near cell towers and other network equipment to improve [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has stopped development work on its custom central processor unit (CPU) cores at its R&D centers in the United States, company officials said Tuesday. Samsung has notified the Texas Workforce Commission of its decision to lay off about 290 members of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of website defacements in South Korea has increased in 2019 from a year earlier, an opposition lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Shin Yong-hyeon of the minor opposition Bareunmirae Party said webpage-related hackings, including the stealing of confidential information and injection of malicious code, numbered 501 cases as of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Global IT giant Google Inc. aims to rev up its cloud business in South Korea by opening its first data center in the country early next year, company officials said Wednesday. It will be Google Cloud’s eighth data center in the Asia Pacific region, and it wants local companies [...]