Samsung Display developing hologram for mobile devices, while Samsung institute works on hologram for head-mounted displays

South Korea will step up efforts to spread advanced agricultural technology and share farming expertise with developing nations to help them tackle food shortages, a state agency said Tuesday.The Rural Development Administration under the agriculture ministry has developed and shared agricultural technologies customized to developing nations through partnerships with local research institutes. The Korea Program on International Agriculture centers have been established in 20 nations in Asia, Afr

South Korea's unit of Chinese tech giant TCL Corp. said Tuesday it will start sales of the black edition of BlackBerry's KEYone smartphone here starting next month.The KEYone, which marks the first BlackBerry smartphone to be released in the market after TCL's purchase of the brand last year, runs on Google's Android platform and comes with a QWERTY keypad.It comes with a 12-megapixel camera on the back and an 8-megapixel camera in the front. (Yonhap)TCL Communication Korea said it is currently

South Korea's corporate watchdog is probing US tech giant Apple Inc.'s practice of shifting the cost of advertisements to local mobile carriers, industry sources said Tuesday.South Korea's three mobile carriers started television advertisements for the iPhone 8 earlier this month. According to the sources, local mobile carriers currently bear the full cost of Apple's commercials, which could be considered an unfair business practice."Whenever there's a new product, mobile carriers air the same a

Despite central government’s pledge to support new ICT-based businesses, “shared economy” business models face hurdles

Samsung Display's lack of AMOLED quality vs. Apple's poor appliance of display tech

Hyundai Motor Co. has posted strong sales in Australia this year thanks to the popularity of its new i30 hatchback and other models, industry data showed Monday.Hyundai Motor, South Korea's leading automaker, sold 3,983 new i30 hatchbacks in the Australian market last month, making the car the best-selling model, according to the data. The figure represents a 46.5 percent jump from 2,718 sales of the old version sold in Australia during the same month a year earlier. Hyundai Motor Co.`s new i30

As cloud computing grows in stature as the future of corporate IT, firms face the choice between low-cost public clouds and their own private clouds, which can offer more security and control.Increasingly, however, firms are looking to take advantage of both, and US virtualization and cloud computing specialist VMware is looking to help its Korean clients adopt such hybrid clouds. Essentially, cloud computing performs its functions -- storing and accessing data, apps and programs -- on the inter

The number of subscribers of premium TV channels surpassed 30 million in the first half of the year for the first time, government data showed.According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, about 30.4 million people were subscribing to pay TV channels in the first half, an increase of more than 830,000 from the previous half.More than 6 million, or 20 percent, were subscribing to KT, while 4 million were paying for an Internet Protocol television service by SK Broadband. CJ Hellovision, the cable

Artificial intelligence may be able to sift through the vast pool of online information and discern which news are fake and which are true -- or closer to the truth.A research presentation on the topic was made Thursday at KAIST, a public research university in Daejeon.Cha Mi-young, a professor at the KAIST School of Computing, proposed a future where artificial intelligence trained through deep learning can tell fake news apart from real.Professor Cha Mi-young of KAIST School of Computing (Yonh

Kakao posts record earnings in 2017 Q3 on upbeat content, ad sales

South Korean tech giants' products won honors from the Consumer Electronics Show 2018 Innovation Awards, industry sources said Friday, proving their competitiveness in the global market.Samsung Electronics Co. said 36 of its products were named "Innovation Honorees," including two "Best of Innovation" honors for its TV and refrigerator. The awards are granted by the Consumer Technology Association, which organizes the annual CES. The upcoming event is slated for January. Shown in the composite i

US tech giant Apple Inc. is set to beat Samsung Electronics Co. in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter, industry data showed Friday, helped by the robust performance of the iPhone X.According to the data compiled by industry tracker TrendForce, Apple is expected to take up 19.1 percent of the market in the October-December period, higher than Samsung's expected 18.2 percent. The South Korean tech giant had retained its top spot by posting 21.1 percent in the previous quarter, foll

In effort to redirect criticism toward Google, Naver calls on US firm to specify position on taxes, job creation and traffic costs

Samsung Electronics has teamed up with Qualcomm to manufacture Qualcomm’s new Centriq 2400 processor family, according to Qualcomm on Thursday. “The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor family is a single chip platform-level solution built using Samsung’s 10 nanometer FinFET process with 18 billion transistors on only 398 square millimeters,” Qualcomm said in a release.The two companies have long had a strategic partnership in the foundry area, and Samsung has used its 14-nanometer and 10-nanometer p