SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s three mobile carriers plan to start preorders for the latest iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus this week, industry sources said Sunday, a move that may cause a dent in sales of high-end models from local brands Samsung and LG. SK Telecom Co., KT Corp., and LG Uplus will begin preorders Monday, ahead of the official release slated for Friday at both online and offline [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) - LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it has begun selling its latest Bluetooth-powered keyboard that works on tablet PCs with excellent power efficiency. The Rolly Keyboard, which boasts improved portability compared to other Bluetooth keyboards in the market as it can be “rolled up” on a rectangular stick, will come with a price tag of 129,000 won (US$113.10). LG said users [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Research suggests that smartphones with voice recognition features can be hacked using electronic signals if earphones with microphones are connected. The Wireless Security Lab at the National Institute of Information Security in France published a thesis suggesting the hacking possibility in a recent issue of the journal ‘IEEE Transactions [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM has announced that it will concentrate on Internet-of-Things (IoT) businesses in the B2B (business to business) sector, and strengthen cooperation with Korea. At an IoT strategy briefing, Jack Desjardins, who is the vice-president at IBM in charge of the global business development of IoT, talked about possibilities in [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. will work with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide educational robots to Costa Rica, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said under the US$2.4 million deal reached in Washington, SK Telecom will provide 1,500 robots [...]
HWASUNG, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Teams from Hyundai Motor Group have suggested various ideas about the future of motor vehicles. From automobile advancements to augmented reality (AR), Hyundai researchers are dreaming big as they envision future transportation. On October 13, the ’2015 R&D Idea Festival’ was held at Hyundai’s Namyang research center. Teams of [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Service’s Forest Research Institute has announced that through a joint project with the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, researchers have developed technology to make a lithium ion battery that can be folded into a paper crane and used three times longer than current batteries. Professor [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – To help solve missing children cases, a technology in which one can register a child’s fingerprint with a smartphone, and also check the identity of a child that has been found through a smartphone will be developed. The National Police Agency announced that it will be embarking on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a never-ending influx of high-end handsets armed with such features as DSLR-like cameras and wireless charging, Yi Nari says she is satisfied with her Galaxy A5, a low-cost smartphone made by Samsung Electronics Co. “The device has a fine selfie camera, so I chose the model over other [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign ownership of Samsung Electronics Co. has dropped below the 51 percent level for the first time in 14 months, market data showed Tuesday, as offshore investors continue to sell its shares due to a bleak earnings outlook. Foreign holdings of Samsung Electronics shares came to 50.76 percent as [...]