BUSAN ― Robert Pepper, vice president of U.S. networking firm Cisco’s global technology policy team, urged companies to stay vigilant so as not to get left behind in the Internet of Everything era.“You have to challenge and disrupt yourself, as the technology market moves very fast and the customers are always looking for the next thing (in the IoE era),” he said. “If you don’t disrupt yourself, somebody else will disrupt you.”He forecast that the total value of the Internet of Things would reac

ARM, a U.K-based chip designer, said Tuesday that tech companies should strive to design products that make use of complex technology such as semiconductors simple and easy to use. Simplicity will further spur tech firms to make a leap into the upper echelons of the industry.“State-of-the-art technology is hidden and invisible but is certainly leading the industry,” said Antonio Viana, president of ARM’s commercial and global development, in his keynote speech at the ARM Tech Symposium 2014 in S

By Kim Young-wonBUSAN ― KT chief executive Hwang Chang-gyu said Monday that the South Korean economy needs to adopt a new growth model that allows start-ups, and small and medium-size enterprises to flourish through innovation.In a keynote speech at the Global ICT Premier Forum on the sidelines of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, Hwang suggested that the country’s conglomerates should make their abundant resources available to start-ups and SMEs so that they can come up with creative

Lee Chae-sub, a KAIST researcher and policy adviser for South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, is expected to win in the election for the directorship of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization on Friday. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization, or ITU-T ― one of the three bureaus of the U.N.’s specialized agency ITU along with ITU-R and ITU-D ― is in charge of setting technology standards in global ICT industries, such as those for Internet protocol television, informat