SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, after announcing disappointing quarterly financial results recently due to the poor performance of its smartphone division, is trying to get out of a funk by investing intensively in B2B businesses focusing on semiconductors and displays. The company said this on July 31 in a conference call releasing [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The biomimetic “robot fish” developed during the previous Lee Myung-bak Administration designed to monitor water quality in the nation’s major river systems proved to be malfunctioning or incapable of carrying out the functions as they were supposed to perform. Korea’s Board of Audit & Inspection said on July 30 that its investigations [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Dental implants became simple and accurate thanks to customized implant system grafting state-of-the-art IT to dental clinics. The customized dental implant system enables optimized implant procedures for various people with different oral structures by scanning them and making their 3D images in the computer. Dentists, as they practice operating virtually [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Group is warming up to implement its plan to build an “LG Science Park” in Seoul to secure fundamental technologies and R&D synergy effects among its tech affiliates. The R&D facility which will sit on a 170,000 square meters site in Magok, southwestern tip of Seoul will begin its [...]
YONGIN , July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – 3D Story Corp., a 3D printer content maker, said on July 16 that it has begun a commercial business to make dolls resembling the fetus in the womb based on ultrasound scan data. The company has developed a software program that converts 3D ultrasound data into a 3D printer-ready format and [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – To keep the “unwelcome guests” of jellyfish at bay on the summer beaches, the Korean government plans to set up an integrated control system which detects and spot jellyfish automatically and kills them by robots. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on July 15 that it would develop the jellyfish control [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1sqG2hw) has announced the addition of a new report “DNA Sequencing – Technologies, Markets and Companies” to their offering. This report briefly reviews basics of human genome variations, development of DNA sequencing technologies, and their applications. Current large and small sequencers are described as well [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – What if you can roll up your tablet computer and put it in your pocket like a scroll? How would you like if your car navigator is embedded on the windshield? This is not something you see on movies like Avatar or Minority Report. These futuristic devices are already with [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LS Cable & System succeeded in winning an order to supply electric cables to Italy, the first among non-European suppliers. The company said on July 8 that it would supply cables worth 6 million euros (US$8.17 million) to Terna S.p.A., an Italian electricity transmission system operator. The aerial cables that LG [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1kygHKy) has announced the addition of the “Atomic Spectroscopy Market by Technology & by Application – Competitive Landscape – Global Forecasts & Trends to 2018″ report to their offering. The global atomic spectroscopy market was valued at an estimated $4.02 billion in 2013 and is [...]