Recently many people were worried that Samsung may follow the path of Nokia which grew fast and took more than half of the market share. Although the company maintains its number one market share, its market leadership and growth speed has sharply plummeted. Even Nokia couldn’t help giving up Symbian. Because of these warnings, Samsung […]
People used to consider time and money when they do something. And people normally try to save time. Through many efficient methods and innovative service processes, saving time has been understood as an objective itself. But the viewpoint is changing. If we change the concept of time to more entertaining and productive way, it will […]
As the telecommunication and media services converge, the moving photographs of a newspaper from the ‘Harry Potter’ series are no longer a make-believe story created from your imagination. This is a rising trend driven by the advancement of network infra and its widened coverage. Furthermore, in the advent of smart devices with high performance such […]
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 […]