Samsung Electronics has been in low-key talks on providing its Drive Link in-car smartphone application to German automakers including BMW and Volkswagen, industry sources said Wednesday. “Samsung is negotiating with the two companies to supply its application to fit into their design concepts such as user interface,” a source familiar with the matter told The Korea Herald. The Korean tech gian...

The Korean government is slated to foster smart cars, wearable smart devices and smart safety systems by 2020. “We have selected 13 industries for the government to focus on for the next six years based on the growth potential of markets, local companies’ competitiveness, employment and production,” said Cho Shin, head of the Planning Commission on Future Growth Engines and director of the Yonse...

KT, the nation’s second-largest telecom operator, ranked No.1 in the Long Term Evolution speed race in Korea, data showed on Thursday. With a download speed of 21.3 megabits per second, KT was in sixth place among 40 telecom operators worldwide and first among Korean mobile carriers, according to a report released by the British wireless network research company OpenSignal. OpenSignal surveyed ...

The nation’s telecom operators unveiled their Long Term Evolution advanced technology at the Mobile World Congress 2014, which opened this week in Barcelona. SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have all demonstrated LTE-Advanced technologies, which can offer data rates of 450 megabits per second. SK Telecom, the nation’s largest mobile carrier, introduced three-band LTE-Advanced, which enables peak dat...

Local mobile carrier LG Uplus demonstrated its FemtoCell system, which both supports Long Term Evolution and Gigabit Wi-Fi technology, at the Mobile World Congress running this week in Barcelona. Developed jointly by LG Uplus and Samji Electronics, FemtoCell is a small base station designed to enable fast and stable telecommunications service in crowded areas such as coffee shops, Internet cafes...

The nation’s large companies are expected to make a foray into the water market on increased government support for the industry, including an initiative being taken by the state-run Korea Water Resources Corp. Korea Water Resources Corporation, also known as K-water has focused on supporting small and medium-sized companies in the water industry in developing water and sewage system technologie...

Who says Facebook Korea is on the verge of demise? Those who obviously have no access to the social networking service grapevine. “Korea is a unique market where over 90 percent of users access Facebook through smartphones,” said Benjamin Joe, head of Facebook Korea, in an interview with The Korea Herald. Noting that Facebook Korea has seen a threefold increase in personnel in the last two yea...

Korea Mobile Internet ― a consortium consisting of mobile virtual network operators, IT services providers and financial backers ― recently said it was ready to become the country’s fourth telecommunications company and offer lower, competitive service rates for consumers amid an upsurge in mobile data traffic. KMI seeks to provide such services through the Long Term Evolution Time-Division Dupl...

Samsung Electronics, the nation’s largest electronic goods maker, filed a lawsuit for libel against Dyson, a U.K. vacuum cleaner manufacturer, claiming that the British company tarnished its reputation, according to industry sources on Sunday. Samsung took the case to the Seoul Central District Court on Friday. The move came after Dyson withdrew its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung. ...