SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom announced that it will hold a competition called “Big data Analytic Festival (BAF)” in partnership with Data Solution, a Korean data analysis company. The telecommunications provider is also planning to crystallize several business plans from the competition’s big data analyses on moviegoers, campers, healthy-eaters, and senior citizens. The [...]
Seoul, Korea, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced the launch of Air Cube, a portable air monitoring device that measures air quality anywhere, anytime, and suggests appropriate actions at emergencies via a designated application on user’s smartphone. Designed to enhance people’s health and well-being, Air Cube monitors the air quality of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on December 2 that it has introduced the industry-first voice authentication system that can allow call center operators to determine the identity of the caller from her voice features, further strengthening the customer’s personal information protect level. Each human voice has unique features that can’t be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Just three weeks after its rollout, more than 20,000 customers have already signed up for SK Telecom’s custom-tailored T Outdoor wearable device plan. The T Outdoor service is a rate plan for communications module-equipped wearable devices, and allows the user to take advantage of voice and data services without [...]
Seoul, Korea, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it, in cooperation with a tablet-based educational solutions provider Chungdahm Learning, launched two pilot projects on Smart Class at Darakam Elementary School and Patumkongka Middle School located in Bangkok, Thailand. The two schools are affiliated with the Institute for the Promotion [...]
Seoul, Korea, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it launched Smart USB, an appcessory (application + accessory) designed to make presentation easier and more effective for professors, lecturers, office workers, teachers and students. Besides serving as an external memory drive, Smart USB offers all features offered by a presenter device. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom said on November 18 that it would introduce addition ways for customers to save communication bills further. Following an announcement on the 13th that it would provide subsidies to conventional mobile phone customers on a budget rate plan, it said today that it will offer at least 80,000 [...]
Seoul, Korea, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it successfully developed and commercialized a technology that makes 2G and 3G services possible through LTE network for the first time in the world. Named ‘2G/3G over LTE,’ the technology enhances the stability of 2G/3G mobile networks by utilizing LTE network as backhaul [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom said on November 10 that it would showcase the “Smart Furniture,” the home fixture equipped with communications functionality. Developed jointly with Hyundai Livart, the Smart Furniture can provide a variety of information through the wireless or fixed-line Internet using the touchscreen-enabled mirror. The fixture can be installed in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The limited edition of Sony’s “Xperia Z3 Silver Green” will hit the Korean store shelves. Famed-for its superb water-proof features, Sony’s Xperia Z3 models are available in white, silver green, bronze and black colors in the global market. According to Sony, the model is now up for sale in [...]