SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone designs are rapidly evolving toward flexible curved shapes. With 2012 as the watershed, the center of gravity in flexible smartphone development efforts has definitely moved to Korea. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office on September 22, the number of patents related to flexible smartphone has increased by [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics is tapping into the rising trend of “Open Innovation,” which is getting popular around the world. “Open Innovation” refers to making goods and products not through solely internal efforts or ideas of a company but in collaboration with external parties’ participations. To this end, LG Electronics [...]
SEOUL, SEp. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics won a certification from Guinness World Records for an outdoor billboard it installed in King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On September 16, an award ceremony was held to recognize the honor at the airport, with LG Electronics Saudi Arabia president Ahn Deuk-soo and King Khalid [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has unveiled a smart TV embedded with Tizen, the operating system developed jointly with Intel. It plans to make available the application programming interface (API) next year in order for external developers to develop smart TV apps. The company will also launch a smart TV model applied with [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KT, South Korea’s largest telecommunications provider, has pulled off a record-setting viewership for its flagship Internet TV service “Olleh TV”. KT announced on September 15 that the number of VOD transactions for its Olleh TV hit the 300 million marks in last August alone — the largest monthly figure for its popular IPTV service. [...]
Cologne, Germany, Sep, 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, announced today the launch of the NX1, the remarkably fast and accurate interchangeable lens camera. Samsung has created a camera designed to be the go-to choice for expert photographers, investing in best-in-class technology to deliver the premium levels of performance that advanced photographers have long [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 15 (Korea Bizwire) ― Aiming to bring a premium Stylus experience to emerging markets, LG Electronics (LG) today announced the global rollout of the LG G3 Stylus, a new pen-enabled smartphone that inherits the core DNA of the acclaimed LG G3. Unveiled at IFA in Berlin earlier this month, the LG G3 Stylus [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will launch a variety of TV and other home appliance products adopting its own proprietary operating system “Tizen” from next year. According to executives of the company’s consumer electronic division on September 11, it would accelerate the pace of the Tizen-based business by introducing models embedded with Tizen operating [...]
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., Sep 10. (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics America, Inc. today launched a new global marketing campaign designed to showcase the company’s latest innovations in printing solutions that help businesses work smarter. The campaign showcases Samsung’s newest lineup of multifunction printers, including the world’s first and only printer with the Android platform built [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics hires new software programmers by evaluating only their programming skills, not other qualifications such as college records, results of English tests or background information in the fall hiring season. The electronic company announced on September 3 that it plans to hold a programming competition named “LG Code Challenger.” [...]