SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday its shareholders approved its move to spin off its mobility business as it seeks to strengthen its focus in the connected mobility sector. SK Telecom said nearly all participants at a shareholders meeting approved the spinoff plan and that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading wireless carrier, said Wednesday it launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor for data center operations as it seeks to capture growing global demand for the chips. The new SAPEON X220 is the first AI chip developed by the mobile carrier and also [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Sunday it has developed a next-generation cloud native core network system with Samsung Electronics Co. that can provide better 5G services. A core network is the central part of a telecommunications infrastructure that handles key tasks, including device certification and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent business deal between the U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. and a local e-commerce platform 11Street Co. is likely to make waves in the domestic online shopping industry. SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier and the parent company of 11st, officially announced its plan to join hands [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it is partnering with Amazon.com, Inc. to allow South Koreans to have easier access to products on the U.S. e-commerce giant’s platform. The carrier said users of its e-commerce unit 11Street Co. can directly purchase the U.S. company’s products [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it released Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox All Access service for the local market, offering gamers the U.S. tech giant’s latest game console as well as its cloud gaming service. The new subscription service bundles Microsoft’s new console — the Xbox [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday its net income rose more than 40 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier on the back of robust growth in its media business. The telecom operator’s net income stood at 395.7 billion won (US$350.5 million) in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has started testing an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can detect dementia by listening to patients’ speech. The carrier said it partnered with Seoul National University College of Medicine last year to develop the program to allow early [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. announced Thursday the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) voicebot for customer service. The mobile carrier said that the voicebot comes with voice recognition, language comprehension and voice synthesis capabilities to understand and analyze complex sentences spoken by customers. Customers can now skip the automatic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless provider, said Tuesday it will open a new flagship store by partnering with Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The new store, named T Factory, in the trendy neighborhood of Hongik University in western Seoul, will open on Oct. 31, according to the [...]