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Broadband lures Tesco.com into Korean expansion
News Tesco.com is to extend its online shopping service to South Korea -- the country with the highest penetration of broadband in the world -- this winter. South Korea was an obvious country for Tesco to target, as 20 percent of the population already...
[August 13, 2001, 16:28]
Spammers hit by government fines
News Six Web sites, including Internet portal Korea.com, have been fined for bombarding Internet users with spam emails, according to reports. The Korea Times has reported that Korea.com has has been fined 4m won for sending spam plugging the products...
[July 22, 2002, 11:25]
Broadband: How South Korea leads the way
News The United States considers itself the centre of technological innovation, yet South Korea has gone considerably further in making a mainstream reality out of the futuristic promises of bygone dot-com days.
[July 28, 2004, 15:55]
South Korea launches 10,000-school Linux programme
News Jin Ko Hyun, president of the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA), which is behind the project, said it has taken schools two years to pilot Buyeo, the Korean version of Linux. KIPA is pushing hard to make Linux more readily available to...
[June 22, 2005, 11:15]
US, South Korea site attacks traced back to UK
News The denial-of-service attacks launched on websites in South Korea and the US earlier this month appear to have come from a master server in the UK, according to security researchers in Vietnam. The attacks targeted dozens of government and...
[July 15, 2009, 8:29]
The Day Ahead: Sizing up the Internet incubators
News Creative is trying to become Korea's version of Softbank, which owns stakes in Ziff Davis and ZDNet, the parent of ZDII. Investors have cheered the VC move and Internet.com was able to grow its war chest via a follow-on stock offering last month.
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
Email scam seeks to fleece bank customers
News Cornali said the server set up to collect the financial details is in South Korea. But one silicon.com reader, Remo Cornali from Italy, has forwarded on a new fraudulent Citibank scam, which began to spread over the weekend.
[September 2, 2003, 10:35]
Conficker wakes up, updates itself over P2P
News On Tuesday night Trend Micro researchers noticed a new file in the Windows Temp folder and a huge encrypted TCP response from a known Conficker P2P IP node hosted in Korea. The worm also tried to connect to MySpace.com, MSN.com, eBay.com, CNN.com...
[April 9, 2009, 14:02]
YouTube generation key to mobile WiMax uptake
News Although many trials of mobile WiMax are taking place worldwide, including in the UK, there are just two commercial networks up and running — both in Korea. Juniper Research sees the top markets for mobile WiMax as being the US — which has a number...
[December 12, 2007, 10:33]
After 30 years, Valentine's still picking winners
News I really think it's sort of embarrassing for South Korea to have an intrinsically greater disposition in broadband than California. But he's not immune to the occasional stinkers: Sequoia has also backed dot-com duds Webvan and eToys.
[November 29, 2004, 11:00]
Cybersquatting escalates in Asia
News She added that there is increasing focus on country code top-level domain such as China's .cn, India's ".in" and Korea's ".kr". Last year, Microsoft filed three lawsuits in U.S.federal court against cybersquatters whom the software vendor said...
[October 8, 2007, 8:15]
Debit card breach mystery deepens
News Golden 1 told the Bee that it closed accounts after discovering unauthorised withdrawals at ATMs in the UK, Russia and South Korea. After receiving a call from ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com about the investigation into the 200,000 cancelled...
[February 13, 2006, 8:50]
Mod-chipped Xbox 'can't play Xbox Live' - Microsoft
News Following the launch of Xbox Live in Korea a week ago, the next markets were Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, he said. Overall, the online gaming market in Asia Pacific commanded $533m in subscriptions last year, with Korea and Taiwan forming two...
[November 13, 2003, 9:20]
Covert P2P network fails to hide users
News In Korea and Taiwan, lawsuits have been filed against users of P2P networks. A copyright body in Taiwan is suing three users of file sharing networks, while in Korea recording companies are threatening to do the same.
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
Nimda rampage starts to slow
News South Korea's Information and Communication Ministry said the number of infections was growing exponentially, as personal computer users were slow to take precautions, according to Reuters. Customers of DSL provider XO Communications sent...
[September 21, 2001, 9:27]
IBM dissolving South Korean joint venture
News IBM and LG Electronics are moving to dissolve a joint venture for selling PCs in South Korea, sources say. Labor unions, which are quite strong in South Korea, are negotiating with the companies over issues relating to employees.
[September 1, 2004, 14:40]
Samsung shows off hard-drive based mobile
News In South Korea, a cell phone does it all. While the hard-drive phone isn't out yet, and the phone with the telescopic lens is only available in Korea, both products portend what is coming for the rest of the world.
[December 7, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft takes spam fight to source
News According to reports, a large portion of the world's spam -- some say as much as 90 percent -- comes from Asia, from countries with relatively less developed anti-spam laws such as China, Korea and Taiwan.
[June 20, 2003, 15:37]
European mobiles dial up ringback tones
News In South Korea, a spin-off from SK Telecom called widerthan.com has done well, enabling SKT's ColoRing service. The growth of ringback tones in Europe is set to mean hundreds of millions of euros in extra revenues for mobile phone operators -- but...
[August 26, 2004, 10:35]
Speed typists bring World Cup home
News Many sites covering the World Cup in Korea and Japan are using online text commentary to add colour to otherwise static coverage. Sitting at his desk with his hands on his computer keyboard and his eyes glued to the TV set, Sports.com commentator...
[June 6, 2002, 10:01]
