SEOUL, Korea, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – From April 1, 3G and LTE mobile phone service users whose phone number doesn’t begins with “010″ (011, 016, 017, 018, and 019) will get no voice and text services any longer. The number of the unfortunate users is 2,155. That’s because the government’s extended offer to change the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 31, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been two weeks since three major mobile telecommunications companies were ordered to suspend their business for offering illegal subsidies to consumers. The mobile phone retail market has been frozen solid ever since in Korea. From the beginning of the suspension on March 13 to March [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the suspension of business of three major mobile communications carriers in Korea due to breaches in telecom regulation, Samsung Electronics is expected to begin rolling out its strategic smartphone “Galaxy S5” from March 27 in Korea, about a half month earlier than overseas markets. According to a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone technology is now no longer limited to voice and text messaging. Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2009, things have changed for good. For the past four years, there has been the so-called “Data Big Bang” in which people’s data traffic usage has risen in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics held a gift-giving ceremony on March 14 at Seoul National School for the Blind to donate its Galaxy Core Advance devices and specialized accessories. The event was attended by the school’s principal Lee Yoo-hoon, Korea Welfare Foundation for the Visually Impaired president Shin Dong-ryeol, and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – All the POS terminals used in commercial establishments that are compatible with magnetic stripe cards will be replaced with IC terminals by the end of this year, as the magnetic stripe cards are known to be vulnerable to personal information theft. In order to enforce the rule forcefully, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 5 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s a little bit annoying to receive and check text messages or Facebook alerts while driving and it can often cause a tragic accident. For those who want to check the message without being disrupted, getting a smartphone application reading the message out loud is the way to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Daum Communications, one of South Korea’s largest portal site, is introducing its private Social Network Service(SNS)_SolGroup_on March 4th. SolGroup is the third service of the Sol Studio at Daum which is a global mobile application publisher. Likewise SolMail and SolCalendar that had been selected by a US IT media ‘The [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Flip phones, once considered obsolete due to the onslaught of ubiquitous smartphones, are still going strong, because of the March back-to-school demand from students as well as the former smartphone users who went back to simpler mobile phones. According to industry sources on March 3, the share of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 27 (Korea Bizwire) –A Chinese smartphone manufacturer began selling a clone only one day after Samsung Electronics unveiled its brand-new smartphone model Galaxy S5. According to mobile phone information site Phone Arena on February 25, China’s mobile phone maker GooPhone has offered its “GooPhone S5″ through its website. This is only [...]