An event hall for the launching event of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge at an adjacent building of the firm’s headquarters in Gangnam was filled with excitement even an hour before its start, reflecting the high market expectations on the latest flagship handsets. When Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung’s mobile business chief, took the stage to deliver a keynote speech at the Galaxy S6 World Tour, he was bombarded with a flurry of camera flashes.“Samsung has developed the new Galaxy S6 and S6

Technology April 9, 2015

South Korean start-up Team Blind has recently launched its anonymous mobile community service Blind in the U.S. market, with hopes of luring young tech-savvy office workers, especially those in Silicon Valley. “We launched the U.S. service two weeks ago,” said Jung Young-joon, the company’s cofounder and CEO via email. “Starting with LinkedIn, we plan to expand our presence among tech firms.”The CEO is visiting California to meet local partners and promote the service. According to him, the firs

Technology April 9, 2015

Korean tech behemoths Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are gearing up for another battle as they prepare to launch their new flagship smartphones this month. Samsung, which has been competing with California-based Apple for leadership in the world’s smartphone market, will launch its new marquee models, the Galaxy S6 and S5 Edge, on Friday in Seoul. Mobile business chief Shin Jong-kyun will deliver a keynote speech at a media session Thursday ― his first appearance at a Seoul event since t

Technology April 8, 2015

Choi Sung-joon, chairman of state Internet and telecommunications regulator Korea Communications Commission, said Tuesday the KCC would implement strict restrictions on illegal activity in the local telco industry in the future.“(SK Telecom) continued utilizing illegal marketing tactics in very organized ways with computer programs to delete the data (of illegal businesses) aimed at intentionally hampering investigations of the KCC,” said Choi at a meeting with reporters to celebrate the first a

Technology April 7, 2015

South Korean handset maker LG Electronics unveiled Monday new user-experience software, LG UX 4.0, which will be featured on the firm’s upcoming flagship G4 smartphone. The Korean tech giant said the LG UX 4.0, which is “simple and smart,” would meet the needs of a wide spectrum of mobile phone users.“The LG UX 4.0, which has become simpler and smarter than its predecessor, will allow smartphone users to make the most of their devices with ease, also catering to the tastes of tech-savvy users,”

Technology April 6, 2015

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province ― LG Electronics’ A1 plant, one of the firm’s factories in a southern city, is in full swing to churn out home appliances, including washing machines, to prepare for South Korea’s peak moving season starting in April.Inside A1, LG Electronics’ CordZero cordless canister vacuum cleaners are lined up on a 50-meter-long conveyer belt and slowly going through the final phase of the assembly process.LG said the cordless canister vacuum cleaner, equipped with topnot

Technology April 5, 2015

Samsung SDI, a leading battery maker in South Korea, has started running a next-generation energy system, called “UES,” which allows stable and efficient energy supply and management, according to the company Thursday. The system was created at its research and development center in Uiwang City, Gyeonggi Province. The company said the new technology would help the firm cement its lead in the global energy system industry.The “UES,” a portmanteau of an uninterruptible power and energy storage sys

Technology April 2, 2015

Taxi and ride-sharing smartphone apps, mainly spearheaded by Uber, have brought seismic changes to not only the information technology industry, but also to the broader transportation sector at home and abroad.An increasing number of people, especially the younger generation, often use smartphones to hail taxis. This can be as simple as a few taps on their device, instead of standing on the side of road waving their arms around, or sometimes even shouting to catch cabs.Jumping on this bandwagon,

Technology April 1, 2015

Networking hardware giant Cisco said Wednesday it would seek further partnership with Korean firms, calling collaboration crucial in an era of connected things, often called the “Internet of Everything.”“Cisco fundamentally believes that as we move into the world of digitization and IoE, no single company can do it on its own, especially when you try to merge the IoT and operational technology worlds,” Cisco’s Asia-Pacific and Japan president Irving Tan said at a media briefing on the sidelines

Technology April 1, 2015

Information technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday a series of new mid-range storage systems in a bid to increase its presence in the growing storage market for small- and medium-sized enterprises in Korea.The new products include the HP MSA Storage ― equipped with solid state drive caching solutions which the firm claims allow enterprises to boost the speed of data processing ― and a hybrid flash array called HP StorageVirtual 4335 hybrid. A hybrid flash array is an SSD that contain

Technology March 31, 2015

A new center for creative economy was launched on Monday in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, in a bid to nurture start-ups in the information technology industry. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, in partnership with the nation’s top telecom carrier KT, set up the Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, the eighth of its kind in Korea. This is in line with the government’s renewed commitment to fostering small and medium-sized firms and ventures across industries through c

Technology March 30, 2015

South Korea’s tech giant LG Electronics is expected to unveil its next flagship smartphone G4 at the end of April, according to sources on Friday.“LG has recently decided the debut schedule for its new marquee phone G4,” said one of the sources who declined to be named. LG Electronics mobile business chief Cho Ju-no also hinted during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month that it could unveil the G4 in April. A leaked image of LG Electronics’ G4 (Android Central)Cho also said

Technology March 27, 2015