As early as in the third quarter, subscribers of IPTV will be able to buy various content and applications on the TV platform, even thru their smartphones.
IPTV operators KT and SK Broadband announced that they …

SK Telecom, the leading mobile carrier, has secured 190,000 smartphone users and 310,000 regular phone users for its online content marketplace, the “T Store” as of February after opening last September. Rival company KT has …

KT, South Korea’s dominant fixed-line phone operator, said Tuesday that it will allow third-party contents providers to broadcast on its Internet protocol television (IPTV), a move to boost its efforts to bring convergence among TV, …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s second-largest handset maker, said Thursday it has awarded software makers developing specialized applications for its mobile phones.
Samsung Electronics announced the winners of the Samsung Application Store Developer Challenge 2009, aimed at …

SK Telecom, the leading mobile carrier in the local market, announced that as of today, 215,000 users had registered at its online application store, the “T Store,” since the September 7th debut.
At the “T Store,” …

Research in Motion (RIM), a Canadian smartphone maker, will soon open its own online application marketplace called BlackBerry App World for Korean customers.
Norm Lo, RIM’s vice president in Asia-Pacific, announced the company’s plans at …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s 5th largest smartphone maker, announced the launch of its own open mobile platform, “Samsung bada” in December, and will release the first bada-powered mobile phone in the first half of next …

The average price of applications on the Blackberry App World, the online market place for Blackberry users, is more than three times higher than similar applications on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market.