SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Desperate to expand their global presence, South Korean and Chinese smartphone makers are likely to fight a pitched battle to steal the show at the world’s largest tech exhibition in Spain next week, industry watchers said Tuesday. The four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) is slated to kick off in [...]
DAEJEON, Feb.15 (Korea Bizwire) – Competition for patents is fierce among domestic companies eager to get ahead in the drone market. The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced that a total of 389 patents related to drones were applied for in 2015, which was a 161 percent increase compared to the previous year. The number of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean panel maker LG Display Co. regained its status as the top seller of Ultra HD panels in the fourth quarter of 2015, industry data showed Thursday, amid the booming popularity of high-end TVs. LG Display shipped 3.98 million units of UHD TV panels in the October-December period, [...]
SEOUL, Jan.20 (Korea Bizwire) – Technology that can be used to create a 3D map by simply walking around with a backpack has been developed by a Korean research team. Professor Do Rak-ju (40) and his team at Korea University’s Department of Electronic Engineering reported that they had succeeded in developing technology that records images [...]
SEOUL, Jan.11 (Korea Bizwire) – The three big telecom companies in Korea are set to launch various IoT (Internet of Things) services, expanding the market. According to an industry report, nearly 60 home IoT services will be launched during the first half of this year. SK Telecom launched a new brand called Smart Home in [...]
SEOUL, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphones from China’s Huawei, exclusively sold in Korea by LG U+, are creating a craze after the launch of the company’s affordable Y6 model, with 10,000 devices sold in only 15 days. LG U+ announced that approximately 700 units of the Y6 are being sold every day, creating an unprecedented [...]
SEOUL, Dec.23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics has announced that it will launch its G Pad Ⅱ 8.3 LTE, a tablet capable of LTE data transfers, through LG U+. The product has an LTE communication module which makes it possible for it to connect to the internet if Wi-Fi is unavailable. Considering that consumers often [...]
SEOUL, Dec.8 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has decided to lower regulations and financially support three new technologies – wireless charging, fused pay channels, and Internet of Things (IoT). These technologies are attracting significant attention, as they could change the way we live forever. On the other hand, there is a need for large-scale R&D [...]
SEOUL, Dec.3 (Korea Bizwire) – A new type of identity authentication that does not require face-to-face interaction and will make it possible for clients to open new bank accounts without actually visiting a bank was demonstrated on December 2. ‘Bio authentication methods’, such as confirming one’s identity by putting their palm near a device, will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. introduced Wednesday the beta edition of a web browsing program for its virtual reality (VR) devices, allowing users to access more content online. The test edition of Samsung Internet for Gear VR will allow users of Samsung’s VR devices to stream various videos online and provide [...]