LONDON, June 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–The LBS market continues to grow strongly and with the arrival of always-on ubiquitous location, ABI Research believes that the market is ready to truly support location based advertising efforts. In Western Markets, a third generation of location based services is now underway. It has forecast retail/shopping, ambient intelligence, hyperlocal [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, mobile applications and computer software technologies can be officially protected by patent. The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on June 18 that it has revised patent standards and will begin granting patents for “Computer Program” claims. A claim is the extent of the protection conferred by [...]
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 [...]
LAS VEGAS, NV, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Cubed, Inc. (otcqb:CRPT), the first 3D mobile display cube application connecting individuals, groups, and businesses, is pleased to announce that the Cube was utilized to provide multimedia communications support to the winning campaign of Mayor Ki-dong Kim of Kwangjin-gu District, Seoul. During the nationwide municipal elections in [...]
SAN MATEO, Calif. June 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Worldwide smart connected devices (SCD) are forecast to grow 15.6% year over year in 2014, reaching close to 1.8 billion devices according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Devices Tracker. Smartphone growth is expected to lead the charge as PC and tablet plus [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — AhnLab, Inc. (www.ahnlab.com), a leading provider of information security products and services for enterprise, military and government organizations, and Synetcom Philippines, Inc., AhnLab’s strategic business partner, introduced AhnLab MDS, multi-layered security solutions against today’s advanced security threats at the CommunicAsia 2014 (Booth Number BB5-08, Basement Level), held [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected that the volume of digital data to be created in Korea will be 847 billion gigabytes (GB) by 2020. If the volume is stored 12-GB tablets, the height will be 9,640 times taller than Mt. Halla, the highest mountain in South Korea of 1,950 meters. EMC [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – As a leading big data analysis company, LG CNS will advance into the Chinese social media analysis market with its proven technologies and expertise. Armed with its social media analysis solution “Smart SMA” developed in 2012, LG CNS made its debut into the big data market in China providing [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Nano Korea 2014, the 2nd largest cutting-edge technology exhibition in the world, will be held in the exhibition hall on the 1st floor of COEX in Seoul for 3 days from July 2 (Wed) to July 4 (Fri). This year promises to be bigger than ever with [...]
LONDON, June 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–ABI Research estimates that the number of developers involved in Internet of Things (IoT) activities will reach 1.7 million globally by the end of 2014. The size of the ecosystem is forecasted to surpass 3 million developers in 2019. For comparison, this would by then account for approximately 10% of [...]