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. […]
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Rollout of NFC Phones
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 […]
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the Evolution of News: Smart Magazine
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 […]
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Is Commerce Gateway a New Opportunity?
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 […]
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Security Be a Hot-potato
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 […]
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Grand Alliance Between Search Engines
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 […]
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Samsung Ready To Jump Up with Galaxy S2
In Korea, Samsung is anticipated to release Galaxy S2 on April 25th. Responding to Samsung’s report about the specification of Galaxy S2, the thickness will be 8.89mm which is the second thinnest next to Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Arc. The original thickness was introduced as 8.49mm at the presentation of MWC 2011. But because of adoption […]
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Zynga Flies High
The value of Zynga is continuously increasing. Its total revenue reached USD 850million and the number of total users was 72 million in 2010 after being founded in 2007. After launching several consecutive hit games, Zynga has become a killer content provider. How can this happen? Why do users like Zynga’s social game? 1. Easiness […]
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NAVER Kicked Off its Commerce Service
Naver, the no. 1 web portal and search engine in Korea is building its basis for the commerce business through its coupon service, Naver Checkout Coupon. Naver Checkout is very similar with Google Checkout service, which is the payment platform that simplifies the total payment process by registering a credit card number to Naver ID. […]