SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, the two pillars of Korea’s electronics industry, have displayed state-of-the-art communications technology and smart items at the World IT Show 2014, the trade show being held at Busan’s BEXCO Exhibition & Convention Center for four days between October 20 and 23. Samsung set up a large booth [...]
Seoul, Korea, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company published a white paper on 5G to suggest new direction for technological evolution to 5G, the next generation mobile communications network. SK Telecom’s white paper on 5G is now available to the public at 5G Global Summit which is [...]
Seoul, Korea, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company and Samsung Electronics will team up to lead 5G network, the next generation mobile communications technology, on October 20, 2014. The two companies signed a MOU to start joint research on 5G network technology and service development. SK Telecom [...]
Seoul, Korea, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company was named “Healthcare Telecommunication Company of the Year” at the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Best Practices Awards held in Singapore on October 16. Since 2008, Frost & Sullivan, a global market research company, selects and awards companies across different [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea, Samsung Electronics is the most favored and sought-after company among Korean university grads. Reflecting their enthusiasm to work at Samsung, around 200,000 university students including retakers — and even third-time retakers — took the Samsung Aptitude Test (SSAT), a kind of entry test for Samsung Group, this year. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced two industry first milestones in the development of 5G telecommunications networking technology, as the company clocked 7.5Gbps, or 940MB per second, the fastest-ever 5G data transmission rate while in a stationary environment. The company was also the industry’s first to achieve uninterrupted and stable connection at 1.2Gbps, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s “Fin-tech” industry seems to be a next big-thing in the national financial and mobile industry, simple and easy mobile payment solutions are being introduced in a row. And LG UPlus, South Korea’s No.3 wireless carrier, also jumps into the fray, betting conventional authentication systems using pin [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Once the newly revised radio law is in effect from December this year, those purchasing smartphones, two-way radios, and TVs from overseas may have to pay astronomical sums of fee for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) certifications. Congressman Jang Byung-wan (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) said on October 13, “Anyone buying a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Broadband said on October 13 that it would unveil the world’s first 10-Gbps (gigabyte per second) Internet service in the upcoming Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union to be held on October 20 at Busan’s BEXCO Center, in partnership with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has developed a new 60-GHz Wi-Fi technology that’s five times faster than the current Wi-Fi services. The new technology could accelerate the speed up to 4.6 Gbps (gigabyte per second) as it makes use of the rarely used ultra-high frequency of 60 GHz. This is more than five [...]