SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will load Joyn Blackbird service, dubbed as a “mobile carrier version of KakaoTalk,” in its smartphones for the first time in the industry. On August 4, Samsung announced that it became the first smartphone handset manufacturer by securing the service into its Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5. Joyn Blackbird [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom plans to launch an ultra-mini wireless pico projector for smartphones. It is a follow-up model to the Smart Beam released in September 2012. With Albert and Atti, the smart robots, as well as the SmartCoin, it remains to be seen how well the new projector will fare [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has entered an “emergency mode,” following the mediocre sales performance of the Galaxy. Some within the company are talking about the possibility of a downsizing or a major reshuffling. In a leader-less situation, Samsung’s state of panic is getting more serious. As expected, the second-quarter financial results released on July [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Beginning in 2016, mobile service subscribers will be able to use any network available regardless of what mobile telecom company they have signed up for. For example, when a mobile network failure occurs, the user can readily switch to a network provided by another telecom service operator. The Ministry of Science, [...]
Amsterdam, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Gemalto, the world leader in digital security and positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant for User Authentication, is expanding its CloudEntr access management service with a new feature for secure file sharing. CloudEntr is the all-in-one solution for securely managing logins and files in the Cloud. Companies using [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus said on July 28 that the Uplus P Center that it is building in Pyungchon, a town in the southern outskirts of Seoul, would be equipped with the intelligent demand response system, the first among the nation’s commercial Internet data centers. An intelligent demand response system is a system that [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) –Travelers to Japan this summer will be able to enjoy the wireless Internet through KT‘s Automatic Wi-Fi Roaming service. Korea’s largest telecom service provider said on July 28 that it has unveiled the Wi-Fi roaming service that allows the user to access affiliated Wi-Fi networks without entering an ID and password. [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — To a question “What is your favorite brand when you plan to buy a new smartphone?” Samsung Electronics topped the list with about 30 percent of respondents said they want to choose Samsung’s, according to a recent survey conducted by the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI). CSRI announced its survey results on July [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –MySite, a company specializing in smartphone app development, has launched Korea’s first app hosting service by which small enterprises could lease smartphone apps for their business purposes. Until now, most apps had to be developed from scratch with companies spending fortunes to develop each app. That’s why apps are mostly [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s tech giant and Samsung’s arch rival for both the local and overseas markets, plans to enter next “big thing” in the global automotive market: auto parts business. LG will make an announcement at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in next January to this end. The consumer electronics brand [...]