SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As a woman in her 40s enters a clothing store with her daughter, a “smart” CCTV camera recognizes her as a regular customer, delivering her personal information to a welcome robot, which then greets both the female customer and her daughter. As the customer moves around the shop, custom-fit [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) —SK C&C has announced plans for an official release of ‘Aibril’, an artificial intelligence assistant service development platform based on IBM’s Watson. During a press conference held on Wednesday in Seoul, the South Korean IT company revealed plans to officially launch the software development system alongside a number of application [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C is launching a new physical distribution service which uses a distributed database system called a blockchain, the company announced yesterday. Blockchain is a groundbreaking technology that allows users to keep a record of all their transactions transparently, in linear and chronological order. Instead of saving information on a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co. and SK C&C Co., both affiliates of SK Group, are likely to team up on developing computing systems that allow users to communicate with machines in natural conservation style, industry observers said Wednesday. In September last year, SK Telecom, the nation’s top mobile carrier, launched an [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Tech giants from home and abroad are battling to garner a larger slice of the South Korean market for cloud computing solutions, industry watchers said Monday, as local demand for the services is expected to grow sharply down the road. The South Korean market for cloud computing solutions is [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C will build an intelligent transportation system (ITS) for the Hanoi-Haiphong Expressway, with aims to make further advances into the ITS market in the South Asian region. According to the system integration arm of SK Group, it received a license from Vietnam to build ITS infrastructure with a traffic [...]
“Currently, Korea’s IT market is stagnant and multiple players are sharing the limited market. We, SK C&C, will restructure the ICT industry ecosystem through M&As among domestic players or international cooperation, and will lead the change in business environment.” “If we integrate ICT convergence technologies into Korea’s advanced ICT services in other industries, we can [...]
“Based on the Total Integration Management System (TIMS), we will make Gwangju Summer Universiade an “IT Festival” so that people can enjoy the sports festival anytime and anywhere in the world.“ “Gwangju Universiade, which will be managed by cutting-edge IT technologies, will bring much joy to spectators and peace of mind to athletes enabling them [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national pension fund said Wednesday it will vote against the proposed merger between two units of SK Group, but the country’s No. 3 conglomerate vowed to push ahead with the deal. SK Group has said earlier its holding firm SK Holdings Ltd. will merge with the group’s [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Most of the major Korean IT companies use little renewable energy while consuming significant amounts of power, says Greenpeace. According to a report released by the international environmental advocacy group in June, the seven major IT companies in Korea including Naver, SK C&C, KT, LG CNS, LG Uplus, Samsung [...]