SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile navigation service T Map will provide location information on about 166,000 fire hydrants across the country. The National Fire Agency said Monday it had signed an agreement with T Map Mobility Co., the operator of T Map, to strengthen its capability of responding to fires through [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — T Map Mobility Co., a mobility unit under telecom operator SK Telecom Co., said Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with the Seoul Trucking Association to introduce its T-map navigation service specially designed for cargo trucks. As T-map Mobility plans to support the digitalization of South Korea’s cargo [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Thursday its navigation application, “T map,” will alert drivers to the presence of nearby ambulances and fire trucks in cases of emergency starting next week. In partnership with the National Fire Agency and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Maps, a mapping application powered by U.S. IT giant Google, attracted more users than a similar service provided by South Korean portal Naver Corp. in April, industry data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker WiseApp, Google Maps had 8.32 million users in April, above [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it would be hosting a general meeting at its Seoul headquarters on September 7 to present its latest product, the AI-integrated navigation system T Map x NUGU. The pre-NUGU supported T Map had been capable of processing one-word commands, but after being integrated with NUGU, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean governmental bodies are making good use of big data analysis to help design new policies. The Gwangju Metropolitan Government and SK Telecom recently conducted a big data analysis regarding transportation and population information in Gwangju, to find out which areas were the most populated with senior citizens over 65 who had [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — “T Map,” the popular smartphone-based navigator service provided by SK Planet, is trying to expand its role as a public safety tool. The company said on November 25 that its T Map service is building a variety of public services upon its location-based service used by 17 million people. One of [...]