SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — PASS, an identity authentication app provided by South Korea’s three mobile carriers, now enables passengers to board domestic flights without the need for a physical ID card or a boarding pass. The three telecom operators — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — and the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp. said Wednesday it has released a new archiving feature for inactive chatrooms in its mobile messenger KakaoTalk through the most recent update. The newly introduced service archives and hides inactive chatrooms that the user does not wish to leave. Archived chatrooms will not send out new notifications [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that preorders for its latest smartphones — Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 — via a live broadcast on Samsung.com were twice as high as the previous series. During the 1-hour and 40-minute live pre-order broadcast, the company offered the two Galaxy phones [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – 2023 will mark a major turning point for Samsung Electronics’ smartphone business, its mobile chief said Friday, with a goal to push up the portion of foldable phones to more than 20 percent of Galaxy flagship sales worldwide. “This year will serve as a tipping point for Samsung to [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) –Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its fifth generation of foldable smartphones Wednesday, in the latest move in the premium segment where the South Korean tech firm is a trailblazer but that is now becoming increasingly crowded with more players. At the summer edition of the Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung showed off the [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their teens and 20s show a stronger preference for Apple Inc.’s iPhones, adding to the concern faced by Samsung Electronics Co. ahead of the Galaxy Unpacked event next week. Gallup Korea conducted a nationwide survey of 975 smartphone users over 18 years of age, in [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Global smartphone shipments fell 11 percent on-year in the second quarter, a report showed Thursday, as the market continued to face headwinds of slower consumer demand amid macroeconomic uncertainties. Market research firm Canalys said the continued market slump impacted market leaders, like Samsung Electronics and Apple, which had to [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court finalized a three-year prison term for a former head of a mid-size technology firm Thursday for leaking Samsung Display Co.’s edge panel technology to Chinese companies in 2018. The edge panel technology, also known as 3D lamination technology, is used for making curved screen edges for [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Users of KakaoTalk, South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger, picked Munyongi as this year’s rising emoticon star. The selection followed a two-week vote that began on June 19, according to Kakao Corp., the operator of the messaging app. Each user was able to vote once per day. A total [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has filed patent invalidation suits against Mojo Mobility over wireless charging technologies. The South Korean tech giant filed a series of lawsuits late last month at the United States Patent and Trademark Office against the California-based wireless charging technology firm. Last year, Mojo [...]