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SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will provide 5G solutions to America’s largest cable service provider, Comcast, in its latest deal as one of the world’s biggest 5G network services providers. The partnership to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) is aimed at helping Philadelphia-based Comcast to “enhance 5G [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – H20 Hospitality Ltd., a tech-based hospitality management startup, said Wednesday it has partnered with cloud service management company Bespin Global Co. to cooperate in operating digital solutions for smart city projects in Vietnam. The hospitality tech company said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bespin Global Vietnam [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The introduction of automation technology increases the retirement risk for older office workers, a central bank report said Tuesday. The Bank of Korea (BOK) traced the employment situation of 962,404 workers between 25 and 69 years of age at 3,033 companies for three years from 2015 to 2017. The [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Google, Apple and other foreign tech giants in South Korea rose more than six times in 2021 from five years earlier to flirt with 4 trillion won (US$2.9 billion), data showed Tuesday. The combined taxable income of foreign tech companies amounted to 3.98 trillion won last year, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An influential American consumer magazine listed a number of TVs made by LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. on the Best Big-Screen TV list. U.S. Consumer Reports recommended 11 TVs with a 70-inch screen or larger, sorting them into categories of ‘top-performing’, ‘mid-priced’ and ‘lower-priced’ based on the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is targeting to commercialize a Level 4 autonomous vehicle in 2027 to release half of newly launched vehicles as Level 4 models in 2035, the transport ministry said Monday. This year, Korea aims to become the world’s third country to commercialize a Level 3 autonomous vehicle after [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. expanded its market share of the global semiconductor industry in the second quarter, maintaining its top spot, a research showed Monday. Samsung’s chip revenue for the April-June period came in at a record quarterly high of US$20.3 billion on the back of solid server demand, taking [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc.’s Pixel 1 smartphone, released back in 2016, is regaining market attention thanks to its free unlimited Google Photos storage function. It’s now easy to find a used Pixel 1 online at secondhand marketplace platforms like Joonggonara or Danggeun Market. Most of the phones put up for sale [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 5G subscribers exceeded exceeded the 25 million milestone just three years and three months since 5G services were launched, data showed Thursday. The Ministry of Science and ICT reported that there were over 25.1 million 5G subscriptions as of July. 5G accounted for 33.3 percent of all [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday that the Fun Mode included on Galaxy A-series smartphones has been used more than 2.5 billion times worldwide since it was released a year ago. Fun Mode adds augmented reality (AR) lens technology developed by Snap, a camera application developer, to the Galaxy A [...]