SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that SK Planet, a leading Korean Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, is expanding its overseas presence in the Turkish market on the IBM Cloud. SK Planet’s mobile messenger application TicToc, built on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, has witnessed [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is eyeing China for its semiconductor production and display panel supplies in searching of low cost advantage. On May 9, the world’s No. 1 memory chip maker announced that it began full-scale semiconductor manufacturing operations in China’s Xi’an fab. The new facility will manufacture Samsung’s advanced NAND [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The ways to plant malignant applications are becoming much smarter to make “delicate inroads” into our ordinary Internet using patterns. Embedding malignant codes through text messages is now a well-known path and many applications that shut out the codes have also been widely developed. Therefore, the ways [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 26, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – After the Constitutional Court of Korea ruled that the so-called “shutdown policy” — which had been introduced in 2010 — legal, the local game industry showed extreme backlash, criticizing the decision was a contradictory ruling against the current regulatory reform stance of the government. The policy mandated [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The government’s measure to encourage public agencies to buy locally made servers and storage solutions has finally come to naught. An official at the Small and Medium Business Administration said on April 24 that servers and storage solutions are no longer on the list of priority purchasing [...]
TOKYO, April 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – NEXON Europe, subsidiary of NEXON, a leader in free-to-play online gaming, today announced its latest title, United Eleven. United Eleven is a browser-based, cross-platform real-time strategy and simulation game that combines names and faces of actual players with the most sophisticated match engine available. The game will be [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The first thing you should do in the Monday morning should be scanning your computer as most “malware” attacks occur during weekends. According to the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency, most malicious software dispersions happened during a time interval between Friday evening and Sunday night, based on the examination [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 25 (Korea Bizwire) – As a series of online security incidents including the weeks of paralysis of Nonghyup in 2011 and the cyber-attack on March 20, 2013 have broken out, some banks are on a mission to recruit white hackers. KB Kookmin Bank has recently hired a new cyber security specialist who [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Powered by an overwhelming gain in the memory sector, Korea secured the No. 2 position in semiconductor output, beating its archrival Japan last year for the first time. According to a recent report by IHS Technology, a U.S. market researcher, Korea ranked second in the chip-making industry with [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Actoz Soft, in conjunction with PlayPieGames, app developers based in Seoul, South Korea, are excited to announce the release of a new shooting game for iPhone and iPad called In a Space. The game is designated to be released on February 17th and will be available for the [...]