SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The so-called “thumb generation” takes home for their most preferred shopping place, according to a survey. According to Auction, an open market operator, which conducted the survey asking its 1,590 members last month, almost six out of ten respondents (58%) answered that they do mobile shopping “when [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 11, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics today announced the commercial launch of the new Galaxy S5 and the Samsung Gear devices – Samsung Gear 2, Samsung Gear 2 Neo, and Samsung Gear Fit. The newly launched devices are ready to be on the shelf in 125 countries including US, Europe, Middle East, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting from Galaxy S5 by Samsung Electronics, smartphones that have been stolen or lost will be unavailable for re-use. To prevent consumer losses from the rapidly increasing number of losses and thefts of smartphones, Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has announced on April 10 to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean mobile phone retailers gathered up and performed a symbolic ceremony in which they broke an ice containing a cell phone figurine to protest against the Korea government’s ongoing business suspension on mobile service providers. On April 9, members of the National Association of Mobile Telecommunications Distributors, an [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Gallup Korea said on April 8 that the media most trusted by Koreans is TV. Based on a survey conducted for three days between March 31 and April 2 on 872 adult men and women, Gallup Korea found that 41 percent of respondents said they prefer the TV [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The more teenagers are dependent on smartphones, the higher chances are that they will experience cyber-bullying. Also, more girls (22.8%) than boys (15.9%) and more senior students than juniors tend to be dependent on smartphones. On April 8, the Seoul city government released data from a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – While there are continuous callings for installing closed-circuit TVs in residential areas for fear of crimes, others want existing ones removed complaining of invasion of privacy. What should authorities do?In every district office in Seoul, there are mounting appeals for installation or removal of CCTVs. In case of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The first thing you should do in the Monday morning should be scanning your computer as most “malware” attacks occur during weekends. According to the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency, most malicious software dispersions happened during a time interval between Friday evening and Sunday night, based on the examination [...]
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SEOUL, Korea, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) –The Strategic Alliance of Smart City Industrial Technology Innovation, an organization under the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will create a fund of 50 billion yuan (US$8.05 billion). The gigantic fund, to be formed by June this year, will be used to pay for programs including smart city traffic [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – To a decision by three mobile telecom service providers on April 2 to offer their LTE customers unlimited data rates, stock analysts were mixed in their verdict. Some said it was one of the worst moves for their bottom line while still others suggested it could be an [...]