SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday showcased its mid-end Galaxy A7 smartphone, which comes with top-notch features adopted by its flagship models. South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said it will start the sales of the 5.7-inch Galaxy A7 this week. The Galaxy A7 comes with 16-megapixel [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean IT giant SK Telecom has launched a new livestock monitoring system called ‘Live Care’ after teaming up with bio venture company uLikeKorea, which will allow farmers to keep an eye on the health of their cattle using smart biocapsules. The new service from SKT will see biocapsules [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of subscribers to Internet-of-Things (IoT) services in South Korea is presumed to have surpassed the 6 million mark last month, government data showed Wednesday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the number of South Koreans using IoT-related services came [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it released two portable devices that notify users if they move 20-30 meters away from their smartphones. The device, dubbed “Smart Tracker,” will come in two sizes and connect to smartphones through a Bluetooth network. The smaller version will [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom is considering the idea of launching an artificial intelligence-based taxi-hailing app, which the company sees as a chance to take advantage of its big data database. Though off to a late start, the IT company seems confident its service will prove popular, as [...]
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, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean communications giant SK Telecom reported yesterday that it has sold more than 100,000 units of its Nugu smart voice-enabled wireless speaker since its release seven months ago, with the number of conversations between Nugu users and the AI assistant amounting to over one hundred million. Since it [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea launched an alliance of leading information and communication technology and construction firms on Wednesday to nurture the “smart home” industry that connects artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) to home appliances. “We can make the world’s leading smart home industry with the combination of our [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Young-beom was the first to get his hands on a Galaxy S8+ from SK Telecom on Tuesday, after six days of waiting in front of the company’s Jonggak outlet – setting a new record since mobile carriers began “lining up” events here in 2009. The launch event kicked [...]
INCHEON, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2017 Korean Baseball Organization season began on Friday at the Incheon SK Happy Dream Park, highlighted by the latest 5G technology and virtual and augmented reality. Before the game between the SK Wyverns and the KT Wiz, visitors had the chance to experience free VR rides in front [...]