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Until last month, exactly before the announcement of Apple’s iMessage, Kakao Talk was one of the most popular messaging services in Korea. Because of this service, there are many conflicts and disputes between carriers and free messaging services. And these controversies have ignited the issue of network-neutrality. After the success of Kakao Talk, Daum launched […]

As the environment for multi screen business is rapidly activated and various network systems are enhanced, many types of services are launched based on cloud system. This sudden boom-up of cloud computing causes alot of people to be confused what the cloud service is and how it will be evolved. Four Categories of Cloud Services […]

When you stop by a Starbucks, you can ‘check-in’ to that Starbucks. It is not a real check-in but a virtual behavior. In the beginning, the concept of ‘Check-in’ which is originated from “Foursquare” was used as a positioning method. But now, check-in no longer orients only to a behavior to register a user’s location […]

SK telecom, the largest carrier in Korea, released its updated cloud service on May 8th, T Bag Plus, to provide more storage up to 10GB. The original service, T Bag, supported only a phone-book, messages and a restricted memory of photos. This upgraded version of T Bag will ignite the competition among personal cloud services. […]

Samsung released Galaxy S 2 in Korea this April. Galaxy S 2 is embedded with NFC chipsets which support single wire protocol and USIM based applications. And yesterday, RIM announced its first NFC phones, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Bold 9930. According to the press release, these phones also support single wire protocol. After the […]

Now, the right information gets more important than ever. Though there are several search engines and they are advancing to find a moderate result, it is still difficult to find what a user really wants. And furthermore people want to read a post or news which they are interested on. So many internet users have […]

There are two mainstreams of the recent trend in the commerce industry. One is the rapid growth of the mobile commerce. According to the report from Korea On-Line Shopping Association, the total sales of the mobile commerce is forecasted as below: [ Mobile Commerce Market Forecast(Unit: KRW in billion) ] Considering that the total number […]

Recently there have been two financial accidents in Korea. The first is the incident where the internal server of Hyundai Capital, a financial service company, was breached by a group of hackers and the customer database was stolen. The second incident happened at the NH(NongHyup) Bank where someone ill-intentionally deleted its financial information from the […]

As we know, people are buying actual products through internet shopping malls and early adopters are trying to make a deal via a mobile channel. Therefore online advertisement gets more important every day and the competition between search engine providers is becoming severe in Korea. Since Naver, Korea’s overwhelming search engine leader, exchanged an advertisement […]