Seoul, Korea, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it concluded a contract to supply its Smart Appcessories* including Albert, a smart robot, and Smart Beam, a small-sized pico projector for all HDMI devices, to the Chinese market, signaling the company’s entry into the emerging ICT country. ※ Smart Appcessory: [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced that for the third year in a row, the company’s LTE small cell technology has been recognized at the Small Cell Industry Awards held in London, UK. This year, SK Telecom was awarded in the Innovation in Commercial Deployment category for its [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced its participation in GSMA Mobile Asia Expo 2014 to be held from June 11 to 13, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) in China. Participating for the third consecutive year in the Asia’s largest ICT exhibition, the company intends to share its [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – “Knock Code,” a security solution by LG Electronics for its smartphones such as the LG G Pro 2, has recently earned a patent from the Korea Intellectual Property Office (registration number 10-1404234). This is a meaningful milestone for the company as the patent proves the technology’s novelty. The company has [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Facing the limit of growth due to market saturation, the nation’s wireless carriers are seeking for new sources of revenue. SK Telecom, the leading wireless telecom operator in South Korea, is reportedly keen to step up its “appcessories” business. “Smart Beam,” a compact beam projector and its flagship brand [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – U Pleat, a web design firm, said on June 5 that it recently launched a web- and mobile app-based experience centers for the Galaxy S5 in which users can “touch” and try new features of the latest smartphone model. The web experience center (http://bit.ly/1nZBfTr) was designed in ways for users [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus said on June 4 that it has succeeded in the pilot service of LTE Advanced three-band carrier aggregation, the service four times faster than the regular LTE service. The company unveiled LTE-A technology that enables the aggregation of three component carriers using three different bandwidth sizes, 2.6 [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 4 that its All IP-based “T Phone” service has surpassed the 1 million subscriber number. Launched in February this year, the service combines voice and data available in ten different smartphone models such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and 3, Samsung Note 3 [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) - On June 2, SK Telecom announced that it has signed an agreement for the sales and manufacture of portable high-end Wi-Fi audio and related services with Anam Electronics which handles ODM (Original Development Manufacturing) for high-end audio equipment suppliers including Yamaha, JVC and Denon. The gist of the contract [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom has developed the world’s first next-generation Giga Wi-Fi technology maximizing the convenience for the giga-bit Wi-Fi users. The largest mobile carrier in Korea announced on June 3 that it secured the “2FA” (Frequency Assignment) technology of giga Wi-Fi which doubles its data transfer rate from current 1.3 [...]