SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Oh Won-kuk, a 30-year-old man residing in Gwangju, sent his Apple iPhone 5 on November 14, 2013 to a service center as his phone lost power too frequently even when the bars indicated sufficient battery power. At the time, he had used the newly purchased phone less than one year, which [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The smartwatch market is showing signs of blooming. As major companies like Samsung, LG, and Apple make forays into this area, the number of smartwatch patent applications has increased as well. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office on November 23, the number of patent applications related to smartwatches started picking [...]
SEOUL, Oct 21 (Korea Bizwire) – MasterCard seems to take full advantage of surging interest surrounding Apple Pay, the tech giant’s newly launched NFC-driven easy-to-use contactless payments system. MasterCard said on October 20 that the contactless payment experience will be available at the 2014 World Series through a partnership with mobile technology leader MLB Advanced [...]
CUPERTINO, Calif., Sep. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – On September 9, Apple finally unveiled Apple Watch™—its most personal device ever—featuring revolutionary new technologies and a pioneering user interface with a beautiful design that honors the rich tradition of precision watchmaking. Apple Watch introduces a specially designed and engineered Digital Crown that provides an innovative way to [...]
LONDON, July 7, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Samsung and Apple account for the majority of the top 20 smartphone models sold worldwide in Q1 2014. Heavily marketed flagship devices like the iPhone 5s 16GB and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 i9500 16GB top the rankings. “Samsung’s dominance is driven by its market leading 27% market share and despite Apple’s [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – TV commercials with a running time of over 30 seconds that break from the conventional idea that the TV commercial film is “art of 15 seconds,” are growing in numbers in the television advertising market. According to AGB Nielson, a media research firm, on July 1, TV commercials that [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) - A recent study shows that the two global giants, Google and Apple, are devouring Korea’s mobile content market while domestic proprietary contents are losing their grounds. According to the Korea Mobile Internet Business Association, the size of last year’s mobile content market was 2,433.5 billion won, in which Google [...]
OYSTER BAY, N.Y., May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past year Apple’s tablet OEM competitors experienced a growth of 79%, while Apple experienced only 13% growth in tablet shipments. Despite growing challenges, as the tablet market reaches saturation in advanced world markets, ABI Research projects Apple to remain a strong force in the market if [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – As Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motors have shown interest in smart car-related technologies following the footsteps of Apple and Google, the prices of stocks in this area are ascending fast. The share price of MDS Tech has risen 54.26 percent while those of Bridgetec and Infobank have gone up [...]
NEW YORK, Apr. 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai’s core interior design principles are safety, intuitiveness and simplicity. With these principles in mind, Hyundai will bring Apple® CarPlay functionality to the 2015 Sonata. CarPlay is the smarter, safer and easier way to use iPhone in the car and gives iPhone® users the features they want [...]