SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Tuesday it has launched a video control solution utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for video recognition to monitor various accidents. Developed in collaboration with local software development company Innodep, the solution utilizes video recognition AI technology to analyze individuals, vehicles, [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. is currently engaged in a tense battle with SK Telecom Co., the country’s leading wireless carrier, over the recruitment of skilled employees in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Naver Cloud, a cloud computing solutions unit under Naver, recently presented evidence to [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will collaborate with Samsung Electronics Co. to release an entry-level smartphone called the Galaxy Quantum 4. The Galaxy Quantum 4 is the fourth model in SK Telecom’s Quantum series of quantum smartphones and is equipped with quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset. The [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, plans to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based food tech by integrating its technology into the complete process of production, processing, logistics, and sales for agricultural and livestock products. The mobile carrier said Wednesday it has signed a business agreement with food [...]
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 [...]