SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday its first-quarter net profit jumped 37.3 percent from a year earlier thanks to increased dividend income. The company logged a net profit of 302.5 billion won (US$228.6 million) on a consolidated basis in the January-March period, down from 220.3 [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) —SK Telecom’s AI-based emergency rescue service has been actively responding to calls for assistance. On Sunday, the telecom giant announced that the cumulative number of emergency rescue interventions linked to its ‘Emergency SOS’ service, which is powered by its AI speaker NUGU, has exceeded 500. Developed with the aim of [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will jointly develop and commercialize a self-driving patrol robot in collaboration with its cybersecurity service subsidiary SK shieldus Co. and a robot technology company Neubility by the end of this year. The self-driving robot will patrol a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will cooperate with U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. and local robotics platform developer Integrit to develop an open-type robotics data platform. The three-party open robotics platform project aims to develop a standardized platform that can share and process data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday its net profit dropped 60.8 percent last year from a year earlier due mainly to the exclusion of its equity gains from its chipmaking affiliate. The company logged a net profit of 947.8 billion won (US$754.6 million) on a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it developed a new cell tower safety inspection system using drones and image analysis artificial intelligence (AI). The newly-developed image analysis AI model checks the status of nuts and bolts by analyzing images taken by drones. Cell towers with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it is launching an unmanned coffee robot service in collaboration with local collaborative robot manufacturer Doosan Robotics Co. The robot, dubbed AI (artificial intelligence) Barista Robot, can make about 20 different types of coffee and drinks, and offers coffee [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday it will introduce a new safety management solution in which smartphones are used to remotely monitor the risk factors of manhole accidents. The solution is a combination of TANGO, SK Telecom’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based system; cybersecurity service provider SK [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Thursday its third-quarter net profit dropped 66.7 percent from a year earlier due mainly to last year’s spinoff of its semiconductor businesses. The company logged a net profit of 245.6 billion won (US$180.4 million) on a consolidated basis in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom, South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with SK Energy Co., the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), 60 Hertz and Soft Berry to develop virtual power plant (VPP) technology. A virtual power plant refers to a network of decentralized power generators [...]