대한항공의 땅콩 회항이 처음으로 알려진 곳은 어디일까? 바로 한국의 스타트업 팀 블라인드가 만든 익명게시판 서비스 블라인드이다. 같은 직장 혹은 같은 업계의 사람들이 익명으로 소통하는 블라인드 서비스가 미국에 진출했다. 9일 팀 블라인드에 따르면 지난달 말부터 미국에서 블라인드 서비스를 시작했고 현재 비즈니스 전문 소셜 네트워크인 링크드인(LinkedIn)의 직원들을 위한 익명 게시판이 새롭게 만들어 졌다고 한다.직장인들을 위한 익명 SNS 블라인드 앱 (팀 블라인드)현재 팀 블라인드의 정준영 공동 창업자 및 대표 미국 캘리포니아 주로 건너가 현지 기업들과 현지 언론과의 미팅을 하는 중이라고 한다. 정영준 대표는 코리아헤럴드와 이메일 인터뷰를 통해 “LinkedIn을 첫 회사로 (미국의) 대표적인 IT회사들로 확장을 준비 중”이라고 밝혔다.한 블라인드 이용자는 “페이스 북, 구글의 직원들이 익명게시판 블라인드를 통해 소통하는 모습을 조만간 기대해 볼 수 있지 않을까 하는 기대감도 든

Korean tech behemoths Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are gearing up for another battle as they prepare to launch their new flagship smartphones this month. Samsung, which has been competing with California-based Apple for leadership in the world’s smartphone market, will launch its new marquee models, the Galaxy S6 and S5 Edge, on Friday in Seoul. Mobile business chief Shin Jong-kyun will deliver a keynote speech at a media session Thursday ― his first appearance at a Seoul event since t

Choi Sung-joon, chairman of state Internet and telecommunications regulator Korea Communications Commission, said Tuesday the KCC would implement strict restrictions on illegal activity in the local telco industry in the future.“(SK Telecom) continued utilizing illegal marketing tactics in very organized ways with computer programs to delete the data (of illegal businesses) aimed at intentionally hampering investigations of the KCC,” said Choi at a meeting with reporters to celebrate the first a

South Korean handset maker LG Electronics unveiled Monday new user-experience software, LG UX 4.0, which will be featured on the firm’s upcoming flagship G4 smartphone. The Korean tech giant said the LG UX 4.0, which is “simple and smart,” would meet the needs of a wide spectrum of mobile phone users.“The LG UX 4.0, which has become simpler and smarter than its predecessor, will allow smartphone users to make the most of their devices with ease, also catering to the tastes of tech-savvy users,”

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province ― LG Electronics’ A1 plant, one of the firm’s factories in a southern city, is in full swing to churn out home appliances, including washing machines, to prepare for South Korea’s peak moving season starting in April.Inside A1, LG Electronics’ CordZero cordless canister vacuum cleaners are lined up on a 50-meter-long conveyer belt and slowly going through the final phase of the assembly process.LG said the cordless canister vacuum cleaner, equipped with topnot

Samsung SDI, a leading battery maker in South Korea, has started running a next-generation energy system, called “UES,” which allows stable and efficient energy supply and management, according to the company Thursday. The system was created at its research and development center in Uiwang City, Gyeonggi Province. The company said the new technology would help the firm cement its lead in the global energy system industry.The “UES,” a portmanteau of an uninterruptible power and energy storage sys

Taxi and ride-sharing smartphone apps, mainly spearheaded by Uber, have brought seismic changes to not only the information technology industry, but also to the broader transportation sector at home and abroad.An increasing number of people, especially the younger generation, often use smartphones to hail taxis. This can be as simple as a few taps on their device, instead of standing on the side of road waving their arms around, or sometimes even shouting to catch cabs.Jumping on this bandwagon,

Networking hardware giant Cisco said Wednesday it would seek further partnership with Korean firms, calling collaboration crucial in an era of connected things, often called the “Internet of Everything.”“Cisco fundamentally believes that as we move into the world of digitization and IoE, no single company can do it on its own, especially when you try to merge the IoT and operational technology worlds,” Cisco’s Asia-Pacific and Japan president Irving Tan said at a media briefing on the sidelines

Information technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday a series of new mid-range storage systems in a bid to increase its presence in the growing storage market for small- and medium-sized enterprises in Korea.The new products include the HP MSA Storage ― equipped with solid state drive caching solutions which the firm claims allow enterprises to boost the speed of data processing ― and a hybrid flash array called HP StorageVirtual 4335 hybrid. A hybrid flash array is an SSD that contain

A new center for creative economy was launched on Monday in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, in a bid to nurture start-ups in the information technology industry. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, in partnership with the nation’s top telecom carrier KT, set up the Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, the eighth of its kind in Korea. This is in line with the government’s renewed commitment to fostering small and medium-sized firms and ventures across industries through c

South Korea’s tech giant LG Electronics is expected to unveil its next flagship smartphone G4 at the end of April, according to sources on Friday.“LG has recently decided the debut schedule for its new marquee phone G4,” said one of the sources who declined to be named. LG Electronics mobile business chief Cho Ju-no also hinted during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month that it could unveil the G4 in April. A leaked image of LG Electronics’ G4 (Android Central)Cho also said

Childhood videos of G-Dragon, a rapper of Korean boy band Big Bang, started playing on four video walls ― two on each side of the center stage ― at the start of a preview of his first hologram concert in Dongdaemun, Seoul on Tuesday night.Then, lines of flashing lights appeared on one side of the video screens and converged to form an image of the 26-year old pop star sitting in a gothic chair at center stage.The Korean rapper sang his four biggest hits, including “Crayon,” and “Fantastic Baby,”