SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — DELL Korea is making Korean customers nervous and angry by abruptly canceling orders for its monitors, which were selling for 136,400 won (US$ 124) at its online shopping mall as part of its big promotion, saying that the promotion page for the discount was published accidently via an update [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. opened its first Asian campus for start-ups and entrepreneurs in South Korea on Friday as part of efforts to provide more business opportunities for them. With the size of 2,000 square meters, the Campus Seoul in the posh Gangnam district in the southern part [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Tuesday it is investigating multinational software giant Oracle Corp. about its possible unfair trading practices related to its database management system (DBMS). The investigation into the local unit of California-based Oracle, which has been under way for months, is focused on two areas of [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have developed a voice-to-text conversion technology that can automatically transcribe the voice of callers seamlessly to texts in Korean. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea (ETRI) announced on March 22 that it had successfully developed the Natural Language Recognition software. As financial institutions and other corporations [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean IT researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) have developed a software-based petabyte-level cloud storage system, said the institute on March 18. Existing cloud storage systems, typically made by well-known Japanese companies, can be only established by purchasing hardware with non-replaceable on-board software, which can hinder efficient [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – KT’s gigabit internet service has attracted 200,000 subscribers in four months since its release in October 2014, said the company on March 13. KT said that the popularity of its service shows that gigabit internet is rapidly becoming mainstream in Korea. KT’s Giga internet service provides users with a [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) is going to run a demonstration project in a bid to promote fair payment customs for contract-awarding companies and software developers, according to a ministry statement from March 8. The ministry plans to apply rigorous rules to the process of awarding contracts [...]
SINGAPORE, Mar 4, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) — Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a global leader in products and services that provide real-time visibility into organizations’ assets, people and transactions, was recently ranked second in ABI Research’s Indoor Location Technology Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) report. According to ABI, Zebra’s ranking was based on the company’s [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Bangkok Airways, Thailand’s privately owned regional airline has implemented Cisco® technology and solutions to help them optimize their business. Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) is a groundbreaking approach to computing, designed for IT innovation and business acceleration. Using this platform, Bangkok Airways has been able to deliver real [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics and Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday they have decided to end their yearslong patent fee dispute but declined to provide details on the conditions of the agreement. “Samsung and Microsoft are pleased to announce that they have ended their contract dispute in U.S. court, as well as the [...]