BERLIN, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — While IFA is Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, this year’s event had an interesting twist with unusual scene stealers form the mobile industry to give much-needed hype for the foldable phones and 5G. IFA closed Wednesday after a six-day run, hosting over 1,900 exhibitors that showcased the latest televisions, [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Telecom Co. have agreed to develop 8K televisions based on 5G networks to diversify content available on the top-end resolution TVs, they said Sunday. 8K TVs offer four times the number of pixels as 4K screens, and 5G is the ultra-fast wireless network that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — It is predicted that location information that is used in smartphones, drones and others will become more accurate in the future. The National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) said Thursday that it will launch a satellite navigation-based positioning information service from the end of this year to expand its location-based [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday introduced a 5G chipset that combines an integrated modem and mobile processors, which can save battery life and space in smartphones. Samsung, the world’s largest chip and smartphone maker, has been working on a mobile processor with a 5G modem built inside, which would [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s strategy to use the latest 5G networks to connect all manners of appliances, vehicles and facilities has been accepted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a government agency said Wednesday. The United Nations information and communication technologies (ICT) body tapped Seoul’s so-called 5G vertical research question for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier, SK Telecom Co., said Wednesday it has agreed with U.S. IT giant Microsoft Corp. to launch a test-run of a new cloud-based gaming platform utilizing the fifth-generation (5G) network here. The project will pave the way for gamers to play high-quality titles without having [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Port of Busan will introduce the world’s first remote control system for loading equipment using 5G networks. The Busan Port Authority announced on Thursday that it plans to develop a system that remotely controls the rubber tired gantry cranes located in the North Port using artificial intelligence and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court’s siding with Facebook over its responsibility for slower data connection puts the onus on network operators, setting a favorable precedent for global IT firms when negotiating network usage fees with local telcos, market watchers said Friday. The Seoul Administrative Court on Thursday ruled in favor [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it has attracted over 1 million 5G subscribers in the first 140 days of launching the fastest and low-latency network, becoming the world’s first carrier to achieve the milestone. The nation’s leading telco said the number of 5G users rose more than twice as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers on Tuesday launched an upgraded text messaging service available on Samsung smartphones in a bid to challenge the nation’s leading mobile messaging app Kakao Talk. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they started the new [...]