SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced plans to expand its ‘Smart Home’ offerings by providing consumers with more opportunities to experience the company’s home Internet of Things (IoT) services. The company announced that it will start selling five different Smart Home connection gadgets including plugs, switches, sensors, gas circuit breakers and bridges (devices [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it will establish a nationwide network of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) by the end of this year and bolster its related business as the segment has emerged as a new growth engine for the telecom industry. SK Telecom said it will utilize [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s drone manufacturer DJI will open its first overseas store in South Korea this weekend, a business move that targets one of the most active markets for contents provided by the aerial device. The five-story DJI Flagship Store in western Seoul, opened to the press on Friday in an [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Display Co. plans to supply advanced organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays to Mercedes-Benz, industry sources said Wednesday, marking the first time for a carmaker to adopt the advanced screen. The South Korean display maker said it will supply the 12.3-inch P-OLED display to the New E-Class produced by the German carmaker. [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., a latecomer to the virtual-reality (VR) segment, said Thursday its new smartphone camera that rotates 360-degrees officially connects to Google Inc.’s Street View service, announcing its full-fledged debut in the industry. South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant said it marked the first time for a smartphone [...]
DAEJEON, Feb.25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean researchers have developed Ultra Low Power (ULP) augmented reality (AR) glasses that can detect finger movement, allowing users to play a virtual piano or type with a virtual keyboard. KAIST announced that Professor Yoo Hoi-joon and his team in the electrical engineering department developed ‘K-Glass 3’, which is a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) - In the face of sagging global smartphone sales, Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are jostling to win back customers with new gadgets boasting much-upgraded cameras and the novel technology of virtual reality (VR). Samsung showed off its flat screen Galaxy S7 and curved screen Galaxy S7 Edge on Sunday [...]
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, 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 [...]