SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of enterprising individuals has proven that you can make money cashing in on Apple’s refurbished iPhone service, as long as you have the right partners. The members of a small crime ring were arrested yesterday on charges of fraud and misappropriation after they abused Apple’s warranty service [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s smartphone makers are rushing to introduce new budget phones as part of efforts to secure a meaningful share of the world’s most important smartphone markets, with competition becoming increasingly heated. On April 17, industry sources revealed that Samsung will release the Galaxy C, a new variant of [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung SDI Co., a major chemical unit under the country’s top conglomerate Samsung, said Thursday that it plans to spend around 1 trillion won (US$875 million) this year on beefing up its electric vehicle (EV) battery business. Samsung SDI said it plans to spend 975 billion won this year [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – In the movie “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”, Tom Cruise secretly takes pictures of classified documents by blinking his eye, using ‘smart’ contact lenses. According to SAM Mobile, a Samsung Electronics blog, the company applied for a patent in the U.S. for ‘the production and usage of smart contact lenses for augmented reality’ [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – KT broadcast the opening game of the KT Wiz’s season live through virtual reality (VR), the first mobile 360-degree live broadcast shared on the sports game site. The crowd wore exclusive VR cardboard viewers handed out by KT, and enjoyed a more dynamic view of the game. Even those sitting [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will sell the industry’s first smartwatch that runs on the long-term evolution (LTE) network, nearly six months after it was showcased. The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition, to be released in South Korea this week, is significant as it does not need to link to [...]
The core of the technology is turning aluminum into a form of nano-particle ink and coating fabrics with it. Using the technology, conductive fabrics that are used in wearable devices such as smart watches can be produced. (Image : Shutterstock) SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s two tech giants — SK Telecom Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. – will team up with a local city government to construct an Internet of Things (IoT) trial town, officials said Monday. They plan to install the IoT infrastructure across Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to be designated [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte HiMart announced it will be selling the ‘Phantom 4’, a drone produced by DJI, in a first for a large domestic retailer. DJI, the No.1 global drone manufacturer with a share of more than 70 percent of the international private drone market, launched the Phantom 4 at the beginning of [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of South Korean scientists announced Tuesday that they have developed a wearable device, based on nanotechnology, for more convenient diabetes monitoring and therapy. The graphene-using “smart patch” has improved the accuracy of blood sugar level measurements as it checks not only glucose in sweat but also temperature [...]