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LG Unveils New Products and New Goals at MWC 2014

LG Unveils New Products and New Goals at MWC 2014

BARCELONA & SEOUL, February 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) —  With two new G Series smartphones, the third genera¬tion L SeriesIII and impressive new UX features, LG Electronics (LG) announced prior to the start of Mobile World Congress (MWC) the company’s intention to expand its user base in 2014 with compelling products designed to meet the [...]

PixArt Partners with Pantech to Offer 3-D Motion Gestures in Their Latest Smart Phone

PixArt Partners with Pantech to Offer 3-D Motion Gestures in Their Latest Smart Phone

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – PixArt Imaging Inc., a leading provider of human-machine interface (HMI) solutions, today announced a design engagement with Pantech to offer a first of its kind gesture motion capability for their IM-A880S (VEGA LTE-A) smart phone. The phone will feature PixArt Imaging’s Gesture Sensor (PAC7620) that provides touch-free [...]

Electronic Makers Focus More on Aesthetics to Appeal to Customer Sentiment

Electronic Makers Focus More on Aesthetics to Appeal to Customer Sentiment

SEOUL, Korea, Feb 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Home appliance makers are now competing based more on aesthetic quality than over technical superiority. For example, Samsung’s Zipel Food Showcase refrigerator (FS9000) has divided its cold storage into two parts–”In-case” and “Showcase”–so that users can store infrequently used items inside while putting items like milk and juice in [...]

S. Korean Government Aims to Contribute 10% of the Global Cloud Computing Market By 2014

S. Korean Government Aims to Contribute 10% of the Global Cloud Computing Market By 2014

DUBLIN, Jan 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Cloud  Computing Market in Korea 2014-2018″ report to their offering.  The analysts forecast the Cloud Computing market in Korea to grow at a  CAGR of 22.16 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors  contributing to this market [...]

KT Offers “Magic Voice” Service Combining All-IP with Voice Recognition Tech

KT Offers “Magic Voice” Service Combining All-IP with Voice Recognition Tech

SEONGNAM, Korea, Dec 20 (Korea Bizwire) – korea’s largest telecom company KT said on December 19 that it would launch “Magic Voice,” the service that combines voice recognition technology with its “All-IP” service, jointly with Internet portal Daum Communications. With the Magic Voice service, the user can listen to music that best matches her state of mind [...]

Smartphone Era – You Can Now Even Get Treatments with Smartphones

Smartphone Era – You Can Now Even Get Treatments with Smartphones

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 10 (Korea Bizwire) – “Appcessorries” is a word not strange to those who are into IT. If the first generation appcessories enabled you to measure things such as body fat, alcohol level in your blood stream and skin tone, the second generation can undoubtedly help you do much more. For example, now you can [...]

[Kobiz Feature] The Stuff-Carers Want Their Stuffs Neat and Lavish

[Kobiz Feature] The Stuff-Carers Want Their Stuffs Neat and Lavish

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 10 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s an old story that more and more people are spending their money on fashion and accessories. The so-called “stuff-carers” not only invest in themselves directly by taking in fashion items and cosmetics but also they do so by audaciously opening up their purses and wallets to buy products [...]

Underground Parking Lots in Seoul Turns into Highly-Efficient LED-lit Spaces

Underground Parking Lots in Seoul Turns into Highly-Efficient LED-lit Spaces

SEOUL, Korea, Dec 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The lights in the underground parking lots of apartment housings in the city of Seoul must be on 24 hours a day. They were also mostly fluorescent lights up until recently when the city government started changing the fluorescent lights into economic LED lights. From 2012, the city successfully replaced [...]