SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – China-based mobile phone makers are likely to shake up the mobile industry in South Korea, a stronghold of the smartphone industry, as Chinese brands are gearing up for pushing in this nation well known for Samsung and LG. The rumor that Huawei Honor 6 would be released in South Korea turned out to be true [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom will develop in-house the open-source and x86 server-based network switch. Once the network switch is developed by early next year and in place in the company’s data centers, it is expected to open a new “do-it-yourself” era for network equipment. According to industry sources on September 12, Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Launching a new initiative “It’s You” to secure more competent brains, SK Telecom is set to tap an increasingly popular tactic when it comes to a recruiting campaign: “We go to meet you in person.” Korea’s leading wireless carrier announced on September 10 that it will search for competent [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Sep. 04 (Korea Bizwire) – Innovative Startup Studio The Giant Pixel Corporation today announced the availability of the Antenna Radio 3.0 for iOS. Antenna Radio delivers a unique, “quick listening” audio experience, offering active listeners a personalized program stream of highly curated talk, news, informational and entertainment-based content accessible on the go. “Many [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – For the safety of kids, SK Telecom and KT teamed up with the education ministry to expand their joint kids’ safety service “U-Safety Notification Service.” The “U-Safety Notification Service” released in August, can locate the users’ whereabouts and alert their parents through text messages when the kids with the 3G-based devices with safety features [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KT‘s IPTV (Internet protocol television) service Olleh TV announced on August 27 that it will officially launch “Customized TV Curation Service” which provides users with TV content curation, based on the user’s personal interest. The service developed by the KT Fusion Technology Institute analyzes the likes and patterns of the user [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A collective lawsuit was made against SK Telecom by 23 citizens, most of whom make a living by working as “replacement drivers,” or part time chauffeurs for intoxicated people usually at night, who suffered economic loss from the network service failure of the mobile carrier on March 20. The People’s Solidarity [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A court ruled in favor of plaintiffs to a class action suit who sued against KT, Korea’s largest telecom service operator, for damages due to personal information breaches. Accordingly, the 29,000 plaintiffs will be entitled to receiving 100,000 won (US$981) each for compensation. Civil court judges of the Seoul Central District [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As smartphones are increasingly used to check the weather or view maps on a trip, the rising number of applications for travel information is waiting for being approved for patents. The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on August 21 that the number of patent applications of travel apps was 49 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon Transportation Corporation announced on August 21 that it has installed the world’s first “IT Aquarium,” for which feeding, cleaning and water exchanging is done automatically, in Gyeyang Subway Station. The “IT Aquarium” has integrated high-tech and tradition, as it presents various exotic fish in an IT-controlled aquarium embedded on a wall [...]