Seoul, Korea, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company, together with Samsung Electronics, successfully completed development of ‘True Real Time Mobile Streaming’ technology that is essential for mobile live streaming and achieved its world’s first demonstration over commercial LTE network. The users of legacy live video streaming over [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reportedly known that Samsung Electronics has paid US$1.04 billion of royalties to Microsoft in exchange for using the U.S. company’s patents for making Android-based smartphones and tablets for a year. The unknown secret of how much money the Korean electronics giant is paying to the software empire was revealed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is tightening its belt in response to the disappointing financial results of late. One of the most visible decisions is the non-renewal of the uniform sponsorship it has maintained with London’s Chelsea Football Club for eight years. This follows an announcement that it would cut back on spending limits [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has decided to adopt Microsoft Word as its official wordprocessor program within the company. On September 30, the company said that it would institute a move to Microsoft Word from Jungum Global (formerly “HunminJungum”) with three months’ transition period beginning on January 1, 2015. Samsung Electronics has for decades insisted [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced that it would phase out of selling laptops including Chromebooks in Europe. Instead, the world’s leading electronics company decided to concentrate on selling tablets to European customers. According to market analysts, the electronics affiliate of Korea’s largest conglomerate plans to wash its hands of the unprofitable [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The market value of Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motors has decreased to their lowest levels in three years. According to the Korea Exchange on September 24, the combined market capitalization of both companies amounted to 17.6 percent of the total stock market in Korea, the lowest since 2011. The value of Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group has won one of the most high-profile real estate auctions in South Korea’s history. Korea Electric Power Corp said today the winner for the site of KEPCO’s headquarters, which is estimated to be worth over 3.33 trillion won (US$3.22 billion), is Hyundai Motor Group, which, according to local reports and sources, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has unveiled a smart TV embedded with Tizen, the operating system developed jointly with Intel. It plans to make available the application programming interface (API) next year in order for external developers to develop smart TV apps. The company will also launch a smart TV model applied with [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will hold a two-day open-source conference between September 16 and 17 to allow developers to share ideas on the new industry trend at the Grand InterContinental in Seoul’s Gangnam. The Samsung Open Source Conference, or SOSCON, will cover a variety of topics from the Internet of things, big data, and [...]
![[Photo] Samsung’s UHD Monitor Obtains Prestigious Performance Certificates](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/15221921046_5e5baf989b_z.jpg "[Photo] Samsung’s UHD Monitor Obtains Prestigious Performance Certificates")
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics’ ultra-high definition (UHD) monitor for professionals won the industry’s first certification for its outstanding picture quality and color match printing performance. The certification for the 31.5-inch monitor has been awarded from such renowned international certification organizations as Underwriters Laboratories (UL), TÜV Rheinland and Forgra. The UD970′s UHD picture quality [...]