KT Corp., South Korea's biggest Internet service provider, said Friday it will provide its artificial intelligence home assistant platform to an apartment complex in the southern port city of Busan.GiGA Genie is an advanced voice recognition butler service that allows users to control home appliances and listen to music using voice commands. It is the world's first IPTV service featuring AI, the company said. (Yonhap)KT said the deep learning platform will be adopted at the Lotte Castle apartmen

Samsung Electronics Co.'s upcoming flagship smartphones are expected to come with a smaller battery than the one in its defunct predecessor Galaxy Note 7 to improve the product's safety, industry sources said Thursday.According to the photo leaked by industry tracker Slashleaks, the presumed Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus are anticipated to come with batteries that are 3,000 milliamp hour and 3,500mAh, respectively. A teaser poster of the presumed Galaxy S8 (Yonhap)Samsung had released the Galaxy

The South Korean government will establish a data platform that artificial intelligence can learn from and open it to small enterprises and startups, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said Thursday. According to the ministry’s plan, it will start building this year the data platform for legal, patent and general knowledge and continue expanding it to further areas for the next five years. The data on legal knowledge will include information and tips to help citizens with legal iss

South Korea's No. 3 mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. said Thursday it has clinched an agreement with a local ventilator maker to apply its Internet of Things technology to the products.LG Uplus said it plans to release two ventilators for restrooms using the technology in cooperation with Himpel, the top local player in the area. (Yonhap)IoT is a concept in which all tangible objects are connected to the Internet and can identify themselves to other devices in order to exchange necessary data for i

LG Electronics’ mobile payment service LG Pay will be available in its new flagship smartphone G6 in June in partnership with the US payment solution company Dynamics, the company said Wednesday. LG Pay, which will be available through a software update, will use wireless magnetic communication technology Dynamics developed in 2007.  Models pose with the LG G6 in this photo released by LG Electronics Inc. in a shop in Seoul on March 12, 2017. (Yonhap)“Dynamics is (LG’s) strategic partner securin

South Korean consumers on Wednesday showed mixed reactions to the first-ever red iPhones that are slated for launch here Saturday. While some welcomed Apple’s efforts to release its smartphones in red as a first in the industry, others downplayed the decision for its irrelevance to technology.“The red iPhone reminds me of the iPhone C series, which seems shallow,” said a tech blogger here, referring to a previous low-priced colorful series in 2013 that had received criticism at the time for look

Dongbu Daewoo Electronics said Wednesday the company introduced about 30 new products customized for American consumers at the 2017 International Home & Housewares Show held in Chicago from Saturday. The electronics maker’s retro-style The Classic series was highlighted at a preview event on the opening day of the four-day show, the company said.  Visitors view The Classic microwave range by Dongbu Daewoo Electronics at the International Home & Housewares Show in Chicago on Tuesday. (Dongbu Daew

Google Inc.'s improved artificial intelligence powered algorithm can better recognize and classify photos and may achieve "human-level" accuracy soon, the company's engineer said Wednesday.In November 2016, Google announced that it has applied a machine learning algorithm to its computer vision model of Google Photos to produce captions that can accurately describe images. The service -- both available online and through mobile applications -- can back up, organize and label the photos automatic

Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s most widely used mobile messenger KakaoTalk, is striving to transform itself into an all-around lifestyle platform that connects users with diverse businesses and services.　Kakao will embark on this new direction with a repositioning of its “Plus Friends” feature -- corporate accounts on KakaoTalk that let firms send out promotional messages to users who add them.Kakao CEO Rim Ji-hoon (Kakao)In the future, “Plus Friends” will go beyond being a one-way marketi

The Korea Communications Commission late Tuesday slapped three local telecom businesses with a total of 2.1 billion won ($1.88 million) in fines for violating the country’s mobile device distribution law in their sales to foreign customers. The communications authority said its committee decided to impose the penalties, citing that excessive incentives on the sales of mobile devices and services to foreigners could discriminate against other consumers. The KCC ordered SK Telecom to pay 794 milli

Kim Hyun-suk, president of visual display business at Samsung Electronics, introduces the company‘s flagship QLED TV series at Raum Art Center in Yeoksam-dong, southern Seoul, Tuesday. (Samsung Electronics)Brushing aside the marketing controversy over its quantum dot display technology, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday launched its latest premium QLED TV lineup here, asserting it has placed greater emphasis on users’ lifestyle over display technology.At a press event to debut the company’s super p

Samsung Electronics’ vice president said the company’s upcoming artificial intelligence technology Bixby will be applied to all of its appliances and will also be opened to third-party developers to make applications. Bixby is Samsung’s new voice assistant and will make its debut in the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone Galaxy S8.According to a statement released by the Korean tech giant’s Executive Vice President Rhee In-jong on Tuesday, a subset of preinstalled applications will be Bixby-

Samsung Electronics unveiled several new display technologies at the private room during this year’s Mobile World Congress, including its development of OLED without polarizer, a source familiar with the matter said.“Samsung exhibited new technologies, including force touch, OLED (organic light-emitting diodes) without polarizer, VR (virtual reality) headsets with high resolution and blue-less OLED. They are expected to be launched within one to two years,” a source who attended the private room

Olympus has launched its new surgical system integration solution Endoalpha, designed to improve work efficiency of endoscopy units and operating rooms inside hospitals of all sizes, in South Korea.Endoalpha brings multiple tasks -- such as operating diverse medical devices and sending endoscopic images and videos -- under a single network, so they can be controlled via a single smart touch panel.A model uses the smart touch panel from Olympus Korea’s newly-launched surgical system integration s

South Korea‘s public sector is seeing growing demand for software programs, particularly that for security, this year, a government report showed Monday.According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, about 4.1 trillion won ($3.66 billion) in purchases is expected to be made for software and information and communications technology-related equipment in 2017, a 1.7 percent increase from last year.The ministry saw demand for software rise 4 percent to 3.12 trillion won, while deman