NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey released by Deloitte today confirms American consumers’ dependence on mobile phones continues to rise as the platform of choice for work, home and self across an increasing range of tasks. Consumers now check their smartphone more than 9 billion times per day and increasingly do so while [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Light Fidelity, or Li-Fi, is a system that uses household LED bulbs to transfer data and provide a wireless internet connection through extremely fast flickering. Li-fi has a number of advantages over conventional Wi-Fi technology, including faster transmission speeds of up to 224 gigabits per second, and reduced energy [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has teamed up with China’s telecom firm Huawei in commercializing the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The move by LG Uplus came less than a month after it joined hands with bigger local rival KT Corp. to jointly [...]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 17 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced a number of new platforms within the award winning DTN-X Family designed to power cloud scale networks. With this announcement, Infinera is ushering in the next generation of Intelligent Transport Network architecture that blends the best of web scale technologies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest product by Korean startup Luxrobo brings IoT to a whole new level. Unlike most IoT devices that come as a single complete product (i.e. robot vacuum), Luxrobo’s “MODI” allows users to turn electronics or household appliances of their choosing into IoT devices, using technology that the company [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s second- and third-largest mobile carriers, unveiled a deal Thursday to work together on commercializing the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The IoT technology, which allows everyday appliances to link to the Internet, is seen as one of the major technological developments [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is seeing a rising number of studio apartments built with “smart” features based on IoT, with the growing popularity of smart homes. According to construction industry watchers, these IoT-equipped efficiency apartments, also referred to as officetels in Korea, are particularly popular among members of the younger generation in their [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced Tuesday that it has developed a super-speed data transfer technology called Zing, that will allow high-bandwidth transmission of data within a distance of 10 centimeters, without the need of Internet connectivity. According to ETRI, Zing is an IoT communications technology that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading telecommunications company, SK Telecom, showcased its IoT roaming network as the global standard for LoRa (low-power, long-range wide area network for IoT), during Tuesday’s All Member Meeting for the LoRa Alliance. In a nutshell, the roaming technology would allow IoT services to be operational in any country [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The idea of robots replacing human jobs has long been a popular subject for debate and science fiction films. But amid recent advancements in AI technology, and concerns that some of these ideas may become reality, a recent report by the Software Policy & Research Institute (SPRi) submitted an [...]