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SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The ICT ministry said Tuesday it will order the country’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. to come up with measures within a month to prevent a recurrence of a service outage stemming from a data center fire. The move came after a fire on Oct. 15 at the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it is working with internet portal giant Naver Corp. to develop next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as part of efforts to improve efficiency of processing large AI data. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, said its cooperation with Naver will create great synergies [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Pusan National University announced on Monday that it had developed an artificial muscle that resembles but is stronger than human muscle. The research team created the artificial muscle using a new material created by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — With a swish of a stylus pen and a spin of the fingers on a tablet PC, a 2D straight line is changed into a 3D image of a flower, a skateboard or a car. This magic-like transformation comes to realization on Feather, 3D designing software developed by Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday promoted a female executive to the president of global marketing for its mobile business, in the first move to tap a female talent, not from its founding family, for the top post. Lee Young-hee was promoted to the president of the Global Marketing Center [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will expand the application of HDR10+, a next-generation high dynamic range (HDR) video technology, to IPTV and video games. HDR10+, an open standard led by Samsung, refers to technology that delivers more vivid color displays by optimizing the level of brightness and contrast [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday it will introduce a new safety management solution in which smartphones are used to remotely monitor the risk factors of manhole accidents. The solution is a combination of TANGO, SK Telecom’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based system; cybersecurity service provider SK [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a major display panel maker, has unveiled a new solution that embeds OLED screens in the floor to be used as one-of-a-kind displays. The company announced Wednesday that it has set up a transparent OLED T-floor at the flagship store opened by SM Brand Marketing, a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its foldable phone sales to enterprise customers more than doubled over the past year, thanks in part to increased adoption by finance professionals. The number of Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip the company contracted to enterprise customers went up by 105 percent [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Efforts are underway to issue digital test result certificates that cannot be forged, using blockchain technology. The state-run certification institute Korea Testing & Research Institute and local paperless trade service provider Korea Trade Network Co. on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding for the issuance and distribution of digital [...]