Seoul, Korea, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company, together with Samsung Electronics, successfully completed development of ‘True Real Time Mobile Streaming’ technology that is essential for mobile live streaming and achieved its world’s first demonstration over commercial LTE network. The users of legacy live video streaming over [...]
Addition and Correction: The number of downloads for a ‘cyber asylum’ in Telegram recorded about 1~1.5 million in the previous week alone, according to the local internet traffic tracking institutes like Ranky.com and other sources available. And the surge in migrating into Telegram has edged out KakaoTalk as No.1 messaging app in South Korea. SEOUL, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reportedly known that Samsung Electronics has paid US$1.04 billion of royalties to Microsoft in exchange for using the U.S. company’s patents for making Android-based smartphones and tablets for a year. The unknown secret of how much money the Korean electronics giant is paying to the software empire was revealed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – As Korea’s mobile carriers rolled out their 4G unlimited data plans, 4G data traffic has been hiking at a drastic speed, according to local sources. According to the report on October 4 published by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning about mobile phones’ data traffic during this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will change the procedure for applying for a new mobile telecom service operator as there have been many instances in which fly-by-night operators formed consortiums with like-minded business enterprises and made repeated applications. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on October 1 that a new electric and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has decided to adopt Microsoft Word as its official wordprocessor program within the company. On September 30, the company said that it would institute a move to Microsoft Word from Jungum Global (formerly “HunminJungum”) with three months’ transition period beginning on January 1, 2015. Samsung Electronics has for decades insisted [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean smartphone market, once considered a “graveyard” of foreign brands, is showing signs of a sea change ahead. In time for the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law taking effect from October 1, overseas phone brands such as Apple, Sony, and Huawei are getting ready to put [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The era of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) will arrive that would provide an unlimited source of Internet addresses in mobile communications services. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on September 26 that it would, in partnership with the Korea Internet & Security Agency, begin a Long-term Evolution-based IPv6 [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on September 24 that it has launched “Food & Box,” the dedicated terminal to be used by restaurants and caterers to place online orders of food ingredients with small suppliers. Food & Box is an easy-to-use terminal for the direct purchase platform “Food & Service” provided by [...]
Seoul, Korea, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company has been awarded “Most Significant Development of a Commercial LTE Network – Operator” at the prestigious LTE Asia 2014 event held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. LTE Asia, organized by Informa Telecoms and Media, is Asia’s leading 4G event. [...]