LONDON, June 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–The LBS market continues to grow strongly and with the arrival of always-on ubiquitous location, ABI Research believes that the market is ready to truly support location based advertising efforts. In Western Markets, a third generation of location based services is now underway. It has forecast retail/shopping, ambient intelligence, hyperlocal [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – June 20 was the 20th anniversary of the commercial Internet service in Korea. KT began the first Internet service in the name of KORNET on June 20, 1994 with the speed of 9.6Kbps, 10,000 times slower than the current average Internet speed of 100 Mbps. Since KT’s initiative and [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A, a new smartphone featuring an advanced multimedia experience and the fastest download, web browsing, multimedia streaming and application loading speeds. As the world’s first, commercially available Broadband LTE-A (Cat.6) smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A combines the technological innovations [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the nationwide deployment of broadband LTE-A service, LG Uplus has successfully developed the world’s first Uplink Carrier Aggregation technology that provides four times faster upload speed than LTE. The company said on June 18 that it has completed the pilot run on the uplink CA technology with an upload [...]
“The world’s first commercialization of 225Mbps LTE-Advanced by SK Telecom will pave the way for Korea to open up an era of 5G in the future. With ceaseless innovation of services, SK Telecom surely will elevate Korea’s status as an ICT powerhouse.” SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Jong-bong, Executive Vice President and Head [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 18 that it has launched a new service called “T Benefit” that notifies the user all benefits provided by the company, as well as the rate plan and additional services the user has signed up. T Benefit gathers all benefit information scattered around the company’s [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced, at a press conference held at its headquarter, that it commercialized 225Mbps LTE-Advanced, that is three times as fast as 75Mbps LTE, on the smartphones supporting the technology for the first time in the world. SK Telecom upgraded the existing LTE-Advanced which [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 16 that it has signed an agreement with Korea Expressway Corp. to share big data with each other and create useful information out of these. The latest pact involves sharing big data provided by Geovision, SK Telecom’s commercial zone analysis tool, and highway usage data held [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the unveiling of three new G Pad tablets in May, LG Electronics (LG) announced the launch of the new tablets, starting with the G Pad 7.0 rolling out in Europe this week, followed by the G Pad 8.0 and G Pad 10.1 over the next several weeks. The [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Nano Korea 2014, the 2nd largest cutting-edge technology exhibition in the world, will be held in the exhibition hall on the 1st floor of COEX in Seoul for 3 days from July 2 (Wed) to July 4 (Fri). This year promises to be bigger than ever with [...]