Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar, who visited Seoul for bilateral talks with Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo, met with Indian software and electrical engineers who are working in Korea to talk about entrepreneurship and the IT of both nations.The meeting between the Indian minister and engineers was held at the request of the 35-member Korean chapter of Pan IIT Alumni Association, an alumni organization of India’s prestigious tech university, the Indian Institute of Technology. The m

SK C&C, an ICT solutions developer, said Monday it would merge with SK Holdings, the holding entity of SK Group, to resolve the conglomerate’s complicated organizational structure and gain momentum in the ICT sector.Market analysts reacted positively to the merger deal.“The decision for the merger came at the right time when concerns over the intricate organizational structure were rising and it will likely help to increase SK Group’s capacity for investment in new businesses,” said Choi Nam-gon

GWANGJU ― With the launch of LG Electronics’ new flagship smartphone G4 just around the corner on April 29, the Seoul-based tech giant is carrying out a full-fledged effort to make the handset available for global customers on time.The production facilities of LG Innotek in Gwangju, where the company manufactures camera modules for the LG handset is also in full swing to meet the deadline.LG Group’s camera module business wing hoped that the industry’s most advanced smartphone camera of the G4 w

Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus said Thursday it concluded its partnership with major Korean and Chinese credit companies to foster the financial technology sector in both nations. Top executives of the Korean mobile carrier, KB Financial Group and its credit card business unit KB Kookmin Card, China UnionPay, the only Chinese bank card organization, and its affiliate UnionPay International signed a memorandum of understanding at the LG Uplus head office Thursday to collaborate and nurture mobile

Korean biometric security system developer Suprema will make a foray into the fingerprint market for mobile devices, taking on fingerprint powerhouses such as Apple-owned AuthenTec and Synaptics. Biometric technology, particularly fingerprint sensors, has come under the spotlight since California-based Apple purchased biometric sensor maker AthenTec in 2012 to implement fingerprint scanners in its iPhones. With the door wide open for the fingerprint market for phones, Lee Jae-won, chief executiv

Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome paid a visit to the manufacturing facilities of South Korea’s leading display maker LG Display in Paju City, northwest of Seoul, on Wednesday.The visit to the Paju complex took place on the request of Mulatu who is in Korea to participate in the 2015 World Water Forum, the largest international event which seeks to advance the cause of water, being held in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province. LG Display CEO Han Sang-bum (left) introduces its new display product

Samsung Electronics, Korea’s electronics behemoth, said Wednesday it recently started supplying a new solid state drive featuring faster read and write performance to global manufacturers of ultrabooks ― ultra-thin and ultra-light laptops.The new SSD, named SM951-NVMe, with its thickness and weight measuring at 3.73 millimeters and 7 grams, allows laptop manufacturers to adopt a slimmer design in their products, according to Samsung.The storage product also boasts read and write speeds of 2,260

Chief technology officers from leading Northeast Asian mobile carriers and network equipment manufacturers met at a KT R&D center in Seoul to discuss the standardization of next-generation networks and the development of the Internet of Things on Tuesday.Lee Jae-sub, director of ITU-T, a U.N. agency which is in charge of coordinating standardization works in the global telecom sector; Lee Dong-myeon, CTO and head of the Institute of Convergence Technology at KT; and CTOs from other wireless carr

Specifications for LG Electronics’ new flagship smartphone G4 were leaked “by accident” on Sunday via the phone’s staging site that was still under construction. The page did not look to be fully updated yet, with details listed for some key features such as camera technology and operating system being clearly incorrect. But reactions are already overflowing about its new leather-backed styling.According to the leaked images, the G series’ signature rear home buttons make a reappearance, while t

 Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus said Sunday that it had successfully launched roaming services running on the voice-over-Long Term Evolution, or VoLTE, networks. The VoLTE roaming services will be first available for subscribers of LG Uplus and Japan’s mobile carrier KDDI, who use LG Electronics’ G Flex 2 smartphone in South Korea and Japan.“LG Uplus has once again boasted its advanced LTE technology with the VoLTE roaming services,” said an official from the mobile carrier, adding, “the firm wi

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

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

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

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

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,”

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

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

Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom, leaders in South Korea’s smartphone manufacturing and mobile network industries, have joined hands to develop new information and communications technology. At a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding Thursday, Kim Young-ky, president of Samsung’s network business and Lee Hyung-hee, president of SKT’s mobile network operations agreed on the partnership.The collaboration will be focused on developing technologies in five crucial sectors in the era o

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,

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