More than 1.6 million consumers have visited experiential zones for Samsung Electronics’ new Galaxy S8 series smartphones at 40 locations nationwide, as of Saturday, the company said Sunday. The areas opened on April 1.“Visitors were impressed with the Infinity Display of the S8 series and many showed interest in the bezel-less design,” the company said in a statement. The Samsung smartphones are slated for official launch Friday. Samsung has expressed confidence toward its target of 1 million p

EXTRA BASS BOOSTER -- LG Electronics displays its new wireless stereo headset, the LG Tone+ HBS-920, releasing to the Korean market Monday. The new Bluetooth headset features an extra-bass booster, which would allow users to increase the level of bass volume to 6 decibels. The metal vibrators inside the earbuds, instead of plastic ones, will deliver balanced sound, along with extra bass, the company said. LG Electronics.

Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s dominant mobile messenger KakaoTalk, is set to host a machine learning training camp on Jeju Island in July as part of efforts to ramp up Korea’s artificial intelligence technology development.Kakao said Friday it will hold the “Machine Learning Camp Jeju 2017” from July 3-18 together with the Korean users of TensorFlow, Google’s open source machine learning system.  (Kakao Corp.)The plans come as the Korean mobile giant has set artificial intelligence as a k

Leading US robotics expert works to develop technologies to better lives, eliminate jobs that people should not do

Foldable smartphones are expected to be slowly commercialized starting in 2019, industry watchers said Friday.According to market researcher Strategy Analytics, the first smartphone of its kind is anticipated to be released in 2019 and take up 0.1 percent of the global market that year. Industry watchers earlier expected such smartphones could be released as early as 2017.(Yonhap)The researcher added the presence of foldable smartphones will gradually rise to 0.7 percent and 2.2 percent in 2020

Samsung Electronics has collaborated with K-pop group EXO for its latest smartphone Galaxy S8. In a press event held by the company Thursday, Samsung unveiled the EXO Smart Cover, the first product of the Samsung Galaxy Friends series, which consists of mobile accessories compatible with the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus.(Yonhap)Both devices can automatically detect the cover and show users multimedia content related to EXO. The smartphone’s wallpaper and icons for applications can also be change

Small consumer goods and media content companies in South Korea are seeking to diversify their global targets, and global e-commerce platform Amazon has been fast to pick up on the trend, offering promotions to attract such businesses.Both sides are enjoying a boost, as the companies gain easier entry into unchartered markets while the online market giant secures stable sources of sales.As China has been pursuing economic retaliation to protest Seoul’s decision to deploy an American missile defe

Dongbu Daewoo Electronics has launched a washer that uses a micro bubble washing technology, in a first for the industry, it said Thursday. The South Korean electronics maker, which mainly provides home appliances, said it adopted a technology that uses 0.05 millimeters of micro bubbles that wash laundry with high frequency pressures, improving washing by 11 percent, while using 24 percent less water and 10 percent less detergent.  Air Bubble 4D Micro (Dongbu Daewoo Electronics)Named Air Bubble

[THE INVESTOR] Tech giant Samsung Electronics said on April 13 that it has hired former US Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen as executive vice president for its mobile business.“Halvorsen will serve as an advisor to Shin Jong-kyun, CEO of Samsung’ IT and Mobile Communication division,” an industry source said. The former DoD official, who retired in February this year, used to provide advice and guidance on information technology strategies and policies. (Terry Halv

Preorders of Samsung Electronics’ flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 have hit 700,000 units here since beginning last Friday, the company said Thursday. “The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus reached 728,000 units, as of Wednesday, in Korea. We are aiming to sell 1 million units before officially launching the smartphone,” said Samsung’s mobile business chief Koh Dong-jin at a media conference at its Seocho office building in Seoul. As for preorders in the US, Koh said, “Although we are not able to disclo

South Korea remains behind in embracing the new web framework HTML5, despite its rapid adoption overseas, the Korea Internet Security Agency said.HTML5 is the latest standard of web programming language developed by the World Wide Web Consortium. By analyzing browsers used by internet users on whether these properly support services made from HTML5, the level of preparedness reached 54.1 percent.KISA said the older versions of Internet Explorer widely used by Koreans tend not to follow HTML5 sta

Samsung Electronics sets up a Galaxy S8 sculpture, which is seven meters high and three meters wide, in St Ives, the UK, as part of its marketing activities to promote the new flagship smartphone. (Samsung Electronics)

Samsung Electronics reclaimed the No. 1 position in the global smartphone market for the first three months of 2017, a market report showed Wednesday. According to market researcher TrendForce, Samsung won back the top spot with a 26.1 percent market share for the January-March period, gaining from 18.5 percent in the final quarter of 2016. Apple, the archrival of the South Korean smartphone maker, slid to the second highest with 16.9 percent. “Samsung’s sales results for its high-end smartphone

South Korea’s mobile carrier KT announced Wednesday it has developed technology to extend the battery life of the latest smartphones by up to 45 percent, and will apply it nationwide for the first time in the country.The telecom firm unveiled its connected mode discontinuous reception technology, abbreviated as C-DRX, which will be applied to its Long Term Evolution network. The C-DRX technology puts smartphones on low power mode on a regular basis while the devices are connected to the KT netwo

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that preorders for its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, has surpassed a whopping 600,000 units in just five days, heralding a big hit for the company.The Galaxy S8 smartphones feature high resolution displays that bend on both ends, and come with various innovative technologies such as iris and face recognition scanners and a smart voice assistance program dubbed Bixby.(Yonhap)After showcasing the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus late last month, Samsu