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SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Monday it has joined RE100, a global corporate initiative aimed at shifting to 100 percent renewable electricity to lessen the impacts of worsening climate change. The move came after LG, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of electronic devices, vowed in July last year to [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will provide various incentives to facilitate the decentralization of data centers, currently concentrated in South Korea’s capital area, officials have said. Under the newly authorized detailed enforcement regulations by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, newly built data centers in non-capital areas, supplied with 22.9-kilovolt power, [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A short film of Shanghai Disneyland, captured using a Galaxy smartphone, garnered 250 million views in China within just 10 days of its release. Named “Fantastic Night Rhapsody,” this 27-minute movie was produced by Samsung Electronics Co. in collaboration with the theme park. It was filmed using the Galaxy [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. could hold the summer edition of its Galaxy Unpacked event on its home turf for the first time, a senior Samsung executive has hinted. “Seoul is meaningful and important,” Lee Young-hee, president of the Global Marketing Center for Samsung’s Device eXperience (DX) division, said Thursday when [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Innotek Co., a South Korean major electronics parts maker, said Wednesday it has developed a flexible and stereoscopic automotive lighting solution, Nexlide-M. Constructed from a flexible resin material, this product can smoothly bend to fit onto vehicles in different configurations, including daytime running lights (DRL) and rear combination [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics introduced the LG StanbyME Go (model name: 27LX5), a portable screen product designed for easy transport. The all-in-one design resembles a suitcase, including a screen, stand, and speaker. It features a handle for convenient carrying, and the interior compartments hold accessories like a remote control and power [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced on Wednesday the launch of its first-ever 89-inch micro light-emitting diode (LED) in the Chinese market. These micro LEDs are tiny LEDs that emit light and color independently, eliminating the need for backlighting or color filters and delivering exceptional picture quality. The absence of a bezel [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. and Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent said Wednesday they are working together to develop next-generation chips that could potentially power the South Korean tech company’s smart consumer appliances and automotive products. Tenstorrent, founded in 2016, builds computers for artificial intelligence (AI). CEO Jim Keller is a [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will collaborate with Samsung Electronics Co. to release an entry-level smartphone called the Galaxy Quantum 4. The Galaxy Quantum 4 is the fourth model in SK Telecom’s Quantum series of quantum smartphones and is equipped with quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset. The [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will introduce a self-repair program in South Korea, mirroring a similar initiative in the U.S. This program will enable consumers to independently repair their Samsung products. The self-repair program covers various products, such as the Galaxy smartphones S20, S21, and S22, the 15.6-inch [...]