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Simple Image Solution – A Korean World Standard

Monday, January 14th, 2008

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 […]

Products and services tailored to specific segments…

Monday, November 19th, 2007

are one of the reasons for the success of SK Telecom. (In the last years SK Telecom has been able to achieve and maintain a market share of around 50%.) An example for the segment specific approach is the existence of three different payment plans for specific age segments: TTL (18-24), TING (13-17) and TINGjunior […]

Android is going to take the Western mobile market where the Korean is today…

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Android the open source operating system for mobile devices is cheered throughout Western media. It is considered as a milestone which will lower production cost for handsets (and thus for consumers), enlarge potential markets for developers (because they will not need to focus on one manufacturer) and at the same time educate consumers to finally […]

Mobile CyWorld gets 11 visits a day…from one user!

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

SK Telecom has announced that user number of “Mobile Cyworld” users has exceeded 1 million, being far ahead of other mobile services like Mobile Daum Café (0.14 million) or Mobile Naver Blog (0.1 million). At the same time the average monthly page view of mobile CyWorld is 350 million which results in the fact that […]

Snapshot on mobile internet usage in Korea

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Recently the National Internet Development Agency of Korea conducted a survey about mobile internet usage among 3000 Koreans aged 12-59. In the last year approx. 27% of all participants used mobile internet at least once a month and 22% used their mobile to access it. Moreover Koreans use mobile internet quite long, with almost 40% […]

What can your cell phone do for you?

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

With the kind of job that I’m in, I am constantly forced to move from one place to another. For this reason, I have connected my laptop computer to our company’s server so that I can access the necessary data from anywhere I want. I thought this was very convenient and even though it’s not […]

Video call is not a dream any more in Korea

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Story: Husband come back to Korea after 2 years and his wife and son come to airport to meet him. His wife tries to jump into husband but..
Video call is not a dream any more in Korea
Have you ever dreamed calling your girl friend with seeing her face?
If yes, Your dream has already came true […]

Mobile Cyworld in Korea

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

 
 
Cyworld, Korean based social networking service, is the one of the most successful ones in the world. In the past, PC and proper internet access were required to use Cyworld. However, today’s cutting edge mobile technology actually extends its reach to everyone’s pocket. In other words, we can ubiquitously access to Cyworld with our mobile […]

KTF’s mobile payment service to be in the world

Friday, June 1st, 2007

 
GSM Association goes with KTF’s mobile payment service
A mobile payment service proposed by Korean operator KTF is uniting the world’s leading service providers. The GSM Association announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on the 13th that it will launch a“Pay-Buy Mobile Initiative”as suggested by the Korean mobile operator. The GSM Association comprises […]

Will mobile music significantly increase operator mobile data ARPU? Case of MelOn in Korea

Monday, August 14th, 2006

With the rise of ringtones and the proliferation of increasingly more sophisticated handsets, cell phones are moving ever closer to becoming true mobile music machines. And while the audio quality possible on handsets does not yet rival that of portable music players, the commercial success of ringtones shows that there is promise for driving music […]