SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has beaten its archrival U.S. Apple Inc. in customer loyalty, an online poll showed Wednesday. Samsung ranked first with 35 points, outpacing Apple’s 7, according to an online poll by U.S. corporate research site SurveyMonkey, based on the responses from 5,000 consumers [...]
BUSAN, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Unmanned aerial vehicles will be mobilized to crack down on ships illegally anchoring in sea lanes near the port of Busan. The Busan Port Authority announced that it would utilize drones in its crackdown on floating docks or ships berthed for long periods of time at the wharves in the port. [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A smart sensor that a drink bottle can ‘wear’ and a wristband device that wakes up sleepyheads are being presented to the public at the ‘Innovative & Creative Show,’ a convention for small digital companies held by Daehong Communications. Daehong Communications has helped several newly formed companies debut at [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is gearing up to unveiled its all new flagship smartphone at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, hoping to put the company back in the ring with arch-rival Apple Inc., corporate sources said Sunday. The flagship, widely expected to be called [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 smartphone company, said Thursday it will showcase its latest smartwatch upgraded with the long-term evolution (LTE) network at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Spain opening early next month. The LG Watch Urbane LTE touts a fast voice communication and data [...]
BOSTON, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile phone shipments grew 7 percent annually to reach 515 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014. It was the first time worldwide mobile phone shipments have passed the half-billion-unit threshold. Apple was the star performer, capturing a record [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, said Thursday its net profit fell 26.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 from a year earlier, dampened by sluggish smartphone sales as its global rivals increased their shares in both the high- and low-end markets. Net income came to [...]
BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., once China’s No. 1 smartphone vendor, sold fewer smartphones in China for the fourth quarter of last year than Apple Inc. and local brand Xiaomi Inc., continuing to lose ground in the battle for the world’s largest smartphone market, a market tracker said Wednesday. “The incredible [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile carrier, SK Telecom Co., said Tuesday it has agreed with U.S.-based Intel Corp. to exchange technology know-how and search for business opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. The two firms signed memorandums of understanding on a joint project that gives access to each [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A stroke warning cap, which was one of the C-Lab projects selected by Samsung Electronics at the beginning of last year, is moving closer to commercialization. The C-Lab is a system that supports the commercialization of new products by adopting ideas proposed by members of management and staff. According [...]