India will auction licenses for nationwide mobile phone services and next-generation mobile wireless services in April, South Korean officials said Thursday, as Korean companies are gearing up to tap Asia’s third-largest economy.
According to South Korea’s …
South Korea will finance studies to merge neurological data with information technology (IT) that may be able to assist people with neurological disorders, the government said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said it plans to select five projects this year that can advance understanding of neural functions and cognitive perception and transform the knowhow into usable data.
Each project selected in this areas can receive 1 billion won (US$883,000) in state support.
“The focus of this year’s efforts are to acquire original technologies that can later be used to help treat people with cognitive impairments,” a press release said. Research could also be used to help people find out what babies want. Read the full story »
An international standards body has accepted a South Korean-made magnetic communications technology for consideration as a potential benchmark, a government agency here said Wednesday.
The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards said a committee of the …
LG Electronics introduced its first Android-based smartphone, “Andro-1(LG KH5200),” for KT customers. The Andro-1 is the local version of the GW620, which released last year in European markets.
The Andro-1, which runs the older Android 1.5, …
The government said Tuesday that it will take measures to broaden access of public data, in response to the growing demand to use information held at state-run agencies to create mobile or new media services. …
South Korea will revamp its national research and development (R&D) support system for the first time in 20 years in a bid to improve the country’s competitiveness and better contribute to economic growth, a senior …
Monthly usage of wireless data among smartphone users in South Korea surged over 100-fold during the first two months following the iPhone’s launch here, a report from KT showed Monday.
KT, South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, …
South Korea will play host for next year’s annual general meeting of the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT), a regional forum on on-line security, the country’s officials said Monday.
The APCERT members have agreed to …
While Taiwanese makers of liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels struck a snag in production due to a global glass substrate shortage, South Korean LCD makers are maintaining full operation at their plants, according to industry sources …
On Wednesday Qualcomm paid 260 billion (US$230 million) won levied on them in an antitrust charge by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) of Korea.
Last July, the Korean antitrust watchdog fined Qualcomm for violating the …
