As many blogs and tech news sites have reported the IFPI, or the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has released a new report on the state of the worldwide music industry. This new report sheds some light on the current trends and gives us some ideas on what to expect from the future. The Industry […]
Recently at my company Veyond, we have hired an intern from Mexico, and he constantly points out many of the differences between Mexico and Korea in terms of telecom, media and technology. This makes me think again about many of the advantageous things that my country, Korea, has achieved in terms of technology.
My thoughts don’t stop […]
Two Korean companies are scheduled to offer free internet security programs that include real-time scanning. On one side we have the owner of the Korean search engine giant, Naver, through their parent company NHN Corp. in partnership with Ahn Labs have developed a program named PC Green which will be released in April.
On the other side, a smaller company, Altools, […]
When looking at the evolution of mobile phones it is striking to see the technological development, but it is also quite interesting to note the adoption of fashion in the industry. Not only are the devices we use developing more functions, but companies are now spending more and more time an money investing in creating […]
Many of the leading wireless internet solution vendors are Korean. One of them, Neomtel, was noticed today by iNews since they receive royalty from Qualcomm through their cash cow Simple Image Solution (SIS). Qualcomm uses a part of the image compression solution in their core technology and for that they have paid an accumulated royalty […]
As I’ve noticed a couple of entries today about OK Cashbag and mobile coupons (here and here in English). Through my company Veyond I have been participating in projects related to this matter so I thought I put in some comments.
OK Cashbag is a loyalty program initiated and controlled by the SK Group. It was […]
Since everybody are having their eyes on Las Vegas this week and 2008 just has started, also I must give some comments on what to expect on the technology side in 2008. A list from BBC (as mentioned in the previous post) suggests Ultra Mobile PC’s, IPTV, WIMAX, Mobile VoIP and “Web to go”. Korean […]
It is hard to not notice that the giant event Consumers Electronic Show (CES) is taking place right now in glamorous Las Vegas. After a quick search for companies related to Korea I found 150 companies, a rather impressive number at such an international conference. However, when considering how world leading Korea is in fields […]
As 2007 has come to an end, it is a good time to be updated on the Korean mobile market. The market is rather stable and the market shares are rather intact between the three big ones in Korean Telecom - SKT, KTF and LGT.
SKT was fined a couple of years ago due to legislative […]
Prestigious Financial Times included an article today about the Korean search market. Korea is, as you may already know, not “googlearized” as most other search markets in the world. Instead is Naver the leading portal. Actually, the article states that Naver now is the fifth biggest portal in the world. In Korea, 77 % of […]
