SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, LG Uplus, said Wednesday it has launched a smart-car management system that runs on the long-term evolution (LTE) network, providing users with real-time information related to their automobiles to ensure safer driving. Dubbed Telematics in Athena (TiA), the service allows users to check [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT and industry ministries said Tuesday they will make an investment of 5.6 trillion won (US$5.05 billion) by 2020 on key emerging business areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT) in a bid to seek new growth sources. The move came after the Ministry of Science, ICT [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it plans to pre-install applications and services provided by Microsoft on the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S6, as well as other Android-powered mobile devices. Under the plan, Samsung said it will “bring Microsoft mobile productivity services to more consumers and business customers” by installing [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The three biggest mobile network operators in Korea, SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have joined forces to launch a unified app store platform, One Store, in a move that will combine their current offerings, T Store, Olleh Market and U Plus Store. The three mobile operators invited 350 app developers [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech powerhouse Samsung Electronics is forecast to sell over 55 million units of its latest premium smartphones this year, with its advanced specs and upgraded features keeping them in firm demand, a market report said Friday. The outlook for shipments of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean IT researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) have developed a software-based petabyte-level cloud storage system, said the institute on March 18. Existing cloud storage systems, typically made by well-known Japanese companies, can be only established by purchasing hardware with non-replaceable on-board software, which can hinder efficient [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest smartphone maker, said Thursday it will start selling its latest character smartphone in neighboring countries this week, before gradually expanding to the Middle East. The Aka phone comes with four different, detachable casings that each has its own personality, shown in digital eyes placed [...]
BUSAN, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Gijang County Office in Busan is gaining national attention for its automatic monitoring system for senior citizens living alone, which was implemented in December 2014. The county office, in collaboration with cable company CJ HelloVision, installed special receivers at 204 homes in the county, with the residents’ consent. Korea [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – KT’s gigabit internet service has attracted 200,000 subscribers in four months since its release in October 2014, said the company on March 13. KT said that the popularity of its service shows that gigabit internet is rapidly becoming mainstream in Korea. KT’s Giga internet service provides users with a [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, is bolstering the global sales of low-end handsets to maintain its leading market presence, with the latest release of its high-end Galaxy S6 series, industry sources said Thursday. The South Korean tech giant has recently decided to roll out the new [...]