Seoul, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Attendance is checked automatically when you enter a classroom. When you pass a grocery store, you receive a text message including electronic coupons. In a foreign country, you can receive information without a sightseeing guide. With the adoption of ‘beacons’ – near field communication devices – smartphone users can [...]
Seoul, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Data-oriented rate plans have turned out to have a positive effect on the sales of mobile communications companies. Concerns arose when the plans were first launched, but now it is estimated that average revenue per user(ARPU) has actually increased. Non- LTE users making the jump to LTE plans seem [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 4 in 5 people in South Korea own a smartphone, making it the country with the fourth-highest smartphone penetration rate in the world, industry data showed Wednesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its smartphone penetration rate reach 83 percent as of end-March, according to the data compiled by Digieco, [...]
HADONG, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A safety drone that can detect human thermal energy to locate individuals in danger flew over Cheonghak-dong, one of Korea’s traditional villages, on July 6. The 20 million won (US$ 17,730) drone was donated by telecommunications carrier KT to this village full of traditional scholars and institutions, as part [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that its advanced indoor location-based service (LBS) platform ‘Wizturn’ is bringing innovative changes to the O2O market by enabling the development and launch of ‘WingK,’ a new type of indoor-based service for Korea’s largest bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center. Wizturn (www.wizturnhub.com) is SK [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top handset brands such as Samsung and LG have sold more devices on their home soil this year despite a controversial subsidy law, but their profitability is presumed to have slipped due to less sales of high-end smartphones, data showed on Friday. Samsung Electronics, the country’s top [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is presumed to be putting more focus on its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, the variant of the Galaxy S6, documents showed Thursday, as it won a trademark for the “S6 EDGE+” earlier this week. According to the documents posted by the United States Patent and [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top tech giant, saw its presence in the Southeast Asian smartphone market decline in the first quarter despite increased shipments, data showed Wednesday, as Chinese rivals took up more of the fast-growing region with budget models. Samsung’s smartphone sales in the region rose 28 percent on-year [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple is set to release its first smartwatch in the South Korean market later this week, facing off with its archrival Samsung Electronics in the wearable device segment, industry sources said Thursday. Released in the United States in April, the Apple Watch has been gathering popularity abroad, with industry [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As SK Telecom and LGU Plus halted the broadcasting and Video on demand (VOD) service of three national broadcasters KBS, MBC and SBS on June 22, 4.1 million IPTV subscribers were suddenly cut off from the three broadcasters’ programs. The broadcasters and the two carriers were in talks about [...]