SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The government’s investigation into allegations that Android phones secretly collected users’ location data is a rising subject of concern for many, who worry that existing laws have a severely limiting effect on any penalties the government may dole out. For the particular violation that Google is accused of, the [...]
SAN JOSE, CA, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Google Cloud today announced a partnership to deliver a hybrid cloud solution that helps customers maximize their investments across cloud and on-premises environments. The companies will provide a unique and open hybrid cloud offering that enables applications and services to be deployed, managed and secured [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Google Inc. is applying its artificial intelligence (AI) technology to not only prevent spam emails but also as an email reply tool for users, a company engineer said Wednesday. Google said its machine learning model can ferret out spam and phishing messages with 99.9 percent accuracy, even spam that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Messaging giant Kakao and search engines Google and Naver are the three largest mobile app makers in South Korea, a new industry report has revealed. Among Android smartphone users in the country, Kakao was branded the most popular mobile app maker both in the number of users and the average [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Google Inc. is teaching an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to generate music and art as part of its efforts to expand the limits of computer creativity to the level of human beings going forward, the company’s senior engineer said Thursday. The ambitious yet experimental “Magenta” project is one of [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Ilbe Storage, usually known simply as Ilbe, has disappeared from Google’s search results, sparking speculation that the company may have deliberately removed the extreme right community that has long been criticized for promoting discriminatory and abusive agendas beyond the traditional values of conservatism. Since May 29, googling Ilbe (in Korean) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Artificial intelligence (AI) language software by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., scored higher than its rival AI machines in a translation battle between humans and machines held in South Korea earlier this week, industry officials said Wednesday. On Tuesday, a group of four professional translators competed against three AI-powered [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s upcoming G6 smartphones will come with Google Inc. voice assistant service, industry sources said Thursday, as the South Korean company struggles to compete against its rivals. LG’s new flagship models — to be unveiled next month — will carry the U.S. tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea decided Friday not to allow Google Inc. to take government-supplied map data outside the country, citing possible security breaches. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, which supervises mapping policy, announced the decision after a meeting with officials from the foreign, defense and other-related ministries. [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – There’s now just a day left before a special government committee makes a final decision on whether to allow Google to export sensitive Korean map data. The dispute goes back to 2008, when the global Internet giant made the same request, but to no avail. The government rejected the [...]