SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The average amount of time Koreans spend staring at their smartphones a day is estimated at more than 3 hours. According to a research report “Five Years after Introduction of Smartphone, the Change in Mobile Life” published by the KT Economics & Management Research Lab on December 16 based on data [...]
Ooyala’s Q3 Global Video Index Highlights Monetization Opportunities for Broadcasters Across the Globe; Share of Mobile and Tablet Viewing Increases 400 Percent in Two Years SANTA CLARA, CA, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and the leading innovator in premium video publishing, analytics and monetization, today issued its Q3 2014 Global [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The AKA (Also Known As) smartphone manufactured by LG Electronics is meeting its customers across the country for a month, from November 14 through December 13. Light posters and digital posters featuring the new smartphone are currently displayed at major subway stations and bus stops nationwide. In Seoul, three [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Less than two months after its release, Huawei Technologies is dropping the price of its budget X3 smartphone by nearly 40 percent, offering a 200,000-won-discount to local customers in a move indicative of the Chinese vendor’s struggling ‘smartphone push’ in Korea. Media Log, a local distributor and affiliate of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The first “spacing-out competition” was held on October 29 at Seoul Plaza in front of Seoul City Hall. The contest is to pick the ones who can zone out the most. A total of 50 contestants participated in the competition, and its competition rate was whopping three to one. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Only a week after the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law has been in effect on October 1, the sales of smartphones made by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics fell to a level only half of what it used to be before the law. In contrast, the sales of [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean smartphone market, once considered a “graveyard” of foreign brands, is showing signs of a sea change ahead. In time for the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law taking effect from October 1, overseas phone brands such as Apple, Sony, and Huawei are getting ready to put [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone designs are rapidly evolving toward flexible curved shapes. With 2012 as the watershed, the center of gravity in flexible smartphone development efforts has definitely moved to Korea. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office on September 22, the number of patents related to flexible smartphone has increased by [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Video contents consumption through mobile devices including smartphones and tablet computers quadrupled during the last two years, according to a recent study. Still, Koreans depend much on TVs to watch videos but they showed a tendency to use mobile devices together with TVs. According to a report by the [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said Korea’s mobile telecom service providers need to embrace a new trend among mobile subscribers to use more data while relying less on voice services. According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute on July 4 in a report “The Impact of Increasing Mobile Data Traffic on Voice Traffic” by [...]