Powervoice, a voice recognition company, announced on Aug. 1 that the company and BC Card would be releasing a mobile speaker recognition service within the year.The speaker recognition service is a program that uses voice biometric software to certify e-payments through a sample of the user’s voice saved on a smartphone instead of a PIN number.Founded in 2002, Powervoice is a voice and speaker recognition solution company with annual revenues of 5.2 billion won ($4.7 million) as of 2015. Until

Brazil’s water polo national team members pose on Wednesday after receiving Galaxy S7 Olympic Edition smartphones at the Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Studio set up inside the athlete’s village in Rio. Samsung is a Worldwide Olympic Partner for wireless communication equipment at the 2016 Summer Olympics.(Samsung Electronics)

South Korean Internet giants Naver and Kakao together provided the government access to a total of 50 user accounts upon the state's request to wiretap them for investigative purposes during the first half of this year, records revealed by the two companies showed Wednesday.All Korean companies are currently mandated by law to hand over personal user data, such as chat records and emails, to the government, which can request such information for serious criminal investigations, Kakao said.Naver

LG Electronics on Thursday announced plans for the worldwide launch of its premium large-size smartphone LG V20 early next month. Its first launch event is set for San Francisco on Sept. 6, with another in Seoul on Sept. 7.The South Korean electronics-maker sent out a poster invitation to local and global media titled “Play More,” featuring the image of a pop-up book and text reading “The second story begins, LG V20.”The LG V20 -- categorized as a “phablet,” a combination of a phone and tablet -

South Korea’s three network operators on Thursday said they will begin receiving preorders for the newly released Samsung Galaxy Note 7 from this weekend at the local price of 988,900 won ($890) per device. SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus announced they will open up preorders for the Galaxy Note 7 at online and offline retailers from 9 a.m. on Saturday. The device is available locally only in the 64GB version and in three colors -- blue coral, gold platinum and silver titanium.The Samsung Galaxy Not

Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messaging app KakaoTalk, on Thursday said it will launch a new mobile selfie application called KakaoTalk Cheez this month.　The app will allow users to take photos and videos, and decorate them with various moving stickers, filters as well as Kakao’s flagship Kakao Friends characters.  (Kakao)Some standout features will include a function which digitally decorates a user’s face to resemble a Kakao Friends character and an option through which a use

President Park Geun-hye on Thursday visited a provincial nursing home to promote a pilot telemedicine program designed to offer the elderly and others in hard-to-reach areas easier access to quality medical services, her office Cheong Wa Dae said.Her visit to the nursing home in Seosan, a city 151 kilometers south of Seoul, was the latest in the recent series of on-site tours to promote various government policies and evaluate whether they have been properly implemented.Park met with those who r

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The Galaxy Note 7, Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest high-end smartphone, is likely to sell better than its predecessors, which may help the world's largest maker of smartphones log decent earnings in the current quarter, industry sources said Thursday.Samsung unveiled the phablet, the successor to the Note 5, in New York on Tuesday in a bid to keep up the momentum of its smartphone sales. The launch of the Galaxy Note 7 came ahead of the latest iPhone launch, expected in the autumn, and days aft

Samsung Electronics Co. is in advanced talks to buy some or all of the operations of auto-parts maker Magneti Marelli from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, according to people familiar with the matter.Samsung is particularly interested in Magneti Marelli’s lighting, in-car entertainment and telematics business and could consider an acquisition of the whole company, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussions are private. The deal could be worth more than $3 billion with a goal o

[THE INVESTOR] NEW YORK -- Since its 2011 launch, not many expected that Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note smartphone would survive the tough competition with smaller-size peers including Apple’s iPhone, the most popular option at the time.The Note lineup, which had its latest and sixth model Note 7 unveiled Tuesday in New York, has evolved and gained a great deal of popularity for itself along the way, so much so that almost all global smartphone makers that used to look down on the Note phablet

Samsung SDS, the IT solutions affiliate of Samsung Group, is expanding its mobile security solution business into the European market, company officials said on Wednesday. The tech firm recently partnered with the U.K. banking and financial services company Barclays to back the development of digital banking services together with Samsung Electronics. Under the partnership, Samsung Electronics is set to provide its mobile security platform KNOX while Samsung SDS plans to offer its mobile authent

LG Electronics started this week to run promotion videos of Korean cultural heritage in Times Square, New York. The company said the 60 second video ad that portrays 11 cultural heritages and Bulguksa Temple will be displayed throughout August. Cultural Heritage Administration.

South Korean tech giant Samsung Group is working to expand its biosimilars business beyond Samsung Bioepis, the group’s drug developing unit specializing in making biosimilar drugs, according to industry sources on Wednesday. 　Archigen Biotech Ltd., a joint venture between Samsung BioLogics and U.K.-based AstraZeneca, on June 20 applied for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval to initiate phase 3 clinical trials for SAIT101, a biosimilar drug referencing Biogen’s Rituxan (rituximab).