SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Se-dol, a top-class South Korean Go player, said Tuesday he may not have his way with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo, after all. A day before taking on the advanced human-like algorithm in the ancient board game Go, also known as “baduk” here, Lee said he now [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a movie premise but actually realizable technology, it has been pointed out that Korean companies need to buckle down as they are lagging behind global IT giants. According to a report issued by the Institute for Information and Communications [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., a latecomer to the virtual-reality (VR) segment, said Thursday its new smartphone camera that rotates 360-degrees officially connects to Google Inc.’s Street View service, announcing its full-fledged debut in the industry. South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant said it marked the first time for a smartphone [...]
SEOUL, Feb.23 (Korea Bizwire) – Young Korean job seekers selected Google as the foreign company that they would like to work at the most. Job portals Job Korea and Albamon conducted a survey on 2,007 university students and job seekers, asking them what foreign company they would like to work at. Google Korea ranked first [...]
SEOUL, Jan.29 (Korea Bizwire) – Two leading tech giants, Apple and Facebook, seem to be in different leagues given their recent performance. With demand for smartphones on the wane, industry watchers even predicted a quarter of negative growth for Apple. On the other hand, Facebook is performing far better than market expectations. On January 27, [...]
SEOUL, Dec.15 (Korea Bizwire) – Google has forcibly applied its ‘Safe Search’ pornography blocking program to Korean language sites. According to Google Korea, Google applied the ‘Safe Search’ feature to searches conducted through the Google Korea (https://www.google.co.kr/) portal. Safe Search is a program that automatically excludes inappropriate content such as pornography from search results. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and Google have joined forces to launch a Smart TV content application. Cooperation between the two companies seems to on solid footing after joint marketing efforts for LG’s new OLED TVs. LG Electronics announced on November 18 that it is bringing a new content application, Google Play Movies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook, Twitter and Google will now have to examine illegal content that has been flagged by the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC). The three American services, which are also widely used among Koreans, only delete content when a report is submitted from a user. However, from now on, content [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., the holding company of Google Inc., said Friday that flexible regulations will help South Korea amid the protracted economic slowdown. “I know that your country is seeing an economic slowdown. My recommendation would be to adopt more flexible regulations to unleash the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – To celebrate Dokdo Day on October 25, numerous flashmobs were held in Silicon Valley, California, calling for Dokdo to be officially recognized as Korean territory. Local Korean residents’ organizations including the Association of Korean residents in Silicon Valley (svkorean.org) held a flashmob celebrating Dokdo Day in front of the [...]