SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Video game giants Microsoft Corp. and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. are eyeing an unclaimed territory in their latest battle for global console supremacy: South Korea. South Korea is among the major markets for the launches this week of their new devices — Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and Series X [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Preorders for the second batch of Sony Corp.’s next-generation gaming console, the PlayStation 5 (PS5), sold out in just an hour in South Korea, industry insiders said Wednesday. As of 2 p.m., all major retailers here said they have closed preorder reservations for the PS5. Eleven local online shopping [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are raising the possibility that Japanese tech giant Sony Corp. will retreat from the South Korean smartphone market due to recent struggles. Sony also decided not to release new smartphones in South Korea for the first half of this year. Sony announced on Tuesday at a Corporate Strategy Meeting [...]
WATERLOO, Ontario, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision technology, is pleased to introduce its newest Genie™ Nano camera built around the Sony® Pregius 5.1M polarized image sensor. The Genie Nano-M2450-Polarized model features a monochrome quad polarization filter, resolution of 2448 x 2048 pixels, and image [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sony Corp.’s resurgence in the premium TV market is starting to threaten the lead enjoyed by South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., industry data showed Sunday. Data provided by the global market tracker IHS showed that in the first half of this year, Sony accounted for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. emerged as the leader in the global virtual reality (VR) market in 2016, accounting for more than 70 percent of 6.3 million VR devices shipped worldwide, a report showed Thursday. The South Korean tech giant sold about 4.51 million units last year, or 71.6 percent of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) system has selected globally ‘hot’ products, with the world’s interest in AI increasing following the epic Go match between Google Deep Mind’s AlphaGo and professional Go player Lee Se-dol. Previously, there have been many cases in which consumer reports, journals or market assessment bodies selected products [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Global TV shipments fell at the fastest clip insix years in the second quarter of the year, hit by the sluggish world economy and weaker currencies of emerging countries, industry data showed Sunday. Global TV sales stood at 48 million units in the April-June period, down 8percent from the same period a year earlier, according to the data by industry tracker IHS Technology. It [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Smart TV sets are expected to take up more than 40 percent of global TV shipments in 2015, data showed Wednesday, with South Korean firms anticipated to maintain their lead in the market. Sales of smart TVs are expected to reach 97.1 million units this year, up 11.3 percent from [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver said Monday that its free messaging app Line will be pre-installed on Microsoft‘s soon-to-be-released Lumia 540 smartphone, reflecting its growing popularity around the globe. “The Lumia 540 will be pre-installed with the Line application, although it does not mean that all of the future [...]