SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A system that enables business owners to access automatically collected customer phone numbers is gaining immense success, as more than 3,000 businesses are using the product called Magic System. Whenever a customer phones a business owner, Magic System automatically saves the phone number and lets business owners use the [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant, on Wednesday showcased its new flagship G4 smartphone that aims to take on the Galaxy S6 series and iPhone lineup amid increased competition in the high-end smartphone segment. The G4 comes with the same 5.5-inch in-plane switching (IPS) QHD display as that [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, uploaded a poster of a seemingly round watch screen on its website on Friday implying that its next smartwatch’s shape will be circular. The poster, which reads “Get Ready For The Next Gear,” shows what appears to be a round smartwatch, [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, which operates South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Wednesday it is “considering” taking over U.S.-based messenger service Path, although no details have been decided. “It is true that our working-level team has reviewed the plan (to take over Path),” an official from Daum Kakao said. “However, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s newest high-end smartphones – the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge — are seen drawing less than expected attention from consumers, industry data showed Wednesday, casting clouds over the market’s upbeat sales estimate of over 50 million units for 2015. South Korea’s No. 1 tech [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 smartphone maker, said Wednesday it will roll out its latest budget smartphone that comes with a larger display than its flagship models, as part of a bid to target global consumers who favor a big screen in the mid- to low-end market. The [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean telecom device maker said Tuesday it has sent an official letter of complaint to the Seoul branch of Huawei Technologies, asking the Chinese firm to follow business ethics and stop recruiting its workforce. “Huawei has been making overreaching moves to take away experts from its rivals [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver said Monday that its free messaging app Line will be pre-installed on Microsoft‘s soon-to-be-released Lumia 540 smartphone, reflecting its growing popularity around the globe. “The Lumia 540 will be pre-installed with the Line application, although it does not mean that all of the future [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government has finally had enough of the three major mobile carriers’ habitual practice of collecting fingerprint information by scanning the back of customers’ ID cards as an identity verification measure. Fingerprint information is found on the back of all Korean ID cards, and the total number of [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ latest high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, just released last week, is more costly to build than Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus, but its price tag is lower than that of its archrival, data showed Wednesday. The combined production cost, including parts and conversion costs, came to US$290.45 [...]