SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major tech giants pulled a prank for a bit of fun on April Fools’ Day. Samsung Electronics Co. on Saturday posted on its website that it had released the Galaxy S23 Bow-Wow Edition, the world’s first smartphone designed exclusively for dogs. This cream-colored smartphone can diagnose [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Microsoft Corp.’s search engine Bing is enjoying global popularity on the back of its integration of Open AI’s technology, and South Korea is no exception, data showed Sunday. The nation’s search engine influx rate (market share in search) stood at 62.8 percent for Naver, 31.4 percent for Google and [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of three South Koreans have tried artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot system ChatGPT, and the level of reliability on the outcomes was relatively high, a poll showed Monday. According to a survey of 1,016 adults from across the country conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. space firm SpaceX has set up a subsidiary in Seoul to launch satellite internet services using Starlink here, industry sources said Thursday. SpaceX established Starlink Korea LLC on March 8, and Lauren Ashley Dreyer, SpaceX’s senior director of Starlink business operations, has been appointed as representative, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK C&C Co., an IT service unit of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said Thursday it had signed a business agreement with Microsoft Korea Co. to launch into the global digital healthcare solution market as well as to expand its industry ecosystem. Under terms of the agreement, SK C&C’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Twelve South Korean websites attacked by a Chinese hacking group have been fully restored more than a week after the incident, officials said Wednesday. The Chinese attackers, identifying themselves as Xiaoqiying, hacked into the websites of 12 academic organizations and institutions on Jan. 22, including the Korea Research Institute [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Twelve South Korean websites attacked by a Chinese hacking group remain unable to be accessed five days after the incident, industry sources said Friday. The Chinese attackers, identifying themselves as Xiaoqiying, hacked into the websites of 12 academic organizations and institutions Sunday, including the Korea Research Institute for Construction [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Innotek Co., an IT parts manufacturer, on Wednesday said its net profit for 2022 rose more than 10 percent, helped by robust sales of high-value products and growing demand from automotive components customers. In a regulatory filing, LG Innotek, Apple’s largest partner in the field of optics, reported [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s internet safety watchdog said Wednesday a Chinese hacking group has launched a cyberattack against 12 South Korean academic institutions but it did not cause serious damage. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) said the attackers hacked into the websites of 12 institutions Sunday, which included some [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Korea’s sales rose slightly to 7.3 trillion won (US$5.9 billion) last year, data showed Monday. The South Korean unit of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. logged 7.3 trillion won in sales from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, up from 7.1 trillion won the previous one-year period, [...]