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South Korea's Games Target Growth
News One important factor in the equation is bandwidth; broadband, which is a must for graphics-intensive online games, is not nearly as pervasive in the United States or Europe as it is in South Korea and other parts of Asia.
[June 25, 2004, 14:30]
South Korea: High-tech Hothouse
News South Korea has a singular asset when it comes to creating consumer products. South Korea then embarked on a brazenly ambitious project to create a massive broadband system. The lifestyle changes that have accompanied South Korea's technology...
[June 24, 2004, 10:05]
SingTel Mobile And Virgin In Billion Dollar Cellular Venture
News With an eye for the combined 55 million strong cellular market of Singapore, Hongkong, and South Korea, SingTel Mobile and Virgin Management Ltd (Virgin) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create a billion dollar venture to offer...
[May 22, 2000, 9:49]
Bribery Case Claims IBM Scalp
News An IBM Asia-Pacific spokesperson told CNETAsia it has named Tony Romero, a 23-year veteran with the company, as the new head for Korea. According to the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office, IBM Korea allegedly amassed a slush fund worth almost 3bn...
[February 6, 2004, 10:10]
Asia: Public Enemy Number One For Spam
News China and Hong Kong come second with 21.9 percent of global spam, while South Korea is third at 9.8 percent. South Korea is a particularly tempting target for spammers due to its advanced technology infrastructure and the economic rewards of...
[April 20, 2006, 17:55]
Sars Dampens Server Sales
News Analysts Gartner Dataquest revealed in a report on Monday that the mature markets of Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore saw small or negative revenue growth, with Sars-hit Hong Kong registering the largest drop of 29 percent year-on-year.
[September 2, 2003, 12:45]
Consultancy Triples In Size With Support From Innovative Business Management Software
White Papers Its key markets are Asia and South-East Asia, and it has operations in Korea and China. RFI Global is a consultancy and test laboratory to the electronics and wireless industries. Smaller groups of employees work in the company's international...
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
WiMax Cut Off By HSDPA In Asia
News Teyew projected that WiMax, despite its challenges, will have the biggest following in India and South Korea. In South Korea, a country that leads the world in broadband penetration, WiMax surprisingly has room to bloom, according to Teyew.
[April 24, 2006, 15:55]
Sapphire/Slammer Worm Attacks
News The economy of South Korea was brought to a screeching halt on the morning of Jan.and the rest of the Internet community suffered collateral damage as a new worm launched a massive attack against a well-known and presumably long-since-patched...
[January 28, 2003, 9:42]
Korean Interest Boosts Open-source Asianux
News However, this effort lacked the endorsement of South Korea, one of the three North Asian hotbeds for open-source software besides China and Japan. Following an agreement inked last year, government officials from Korea, China and Japan met in...
[July 21, 2004, 9:35]
Linux Vendors Ready Asianux 2.0
News Software vendors in China and South Korea are expected to release the Asianux 2.0, an Asian Linux distribution, later this week. The server operating system, developed by China's Red Flag Software, Japan's Miracle Linux and South Korean software...
[August 24, 2005, 16:30]
Samsung Chief Resigns Over Tax Scandal
News South Korean conglomerates powered South Korea from the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War to become Asia's fourth-largest economy, but have been accused for years of creating impenetrable management structures.
[April 22, 2008, 8:30]
Korean Group Plans Slammer Lawsuit
News This heightened data transfer crippled Internet networks worldwide two weeks ago, with Korea bearing the brunt of the damage as Asia's most wired nation. The People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) is considering a class-action suit...
[February 6, 2003, 14:14]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News The number of households and businesses worldwide with high-speed DSL Internet connections has hit 26 million -- with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong leading the way. In a statement, William Rodey, chairman of the DSL Forum, said: "It is exciting...
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
Dual Handsets Solve CDMA Puzzle
News Both can be found in Japan, Korea and China. For example, operator SK Telecom in Korea has nearly 1.5 million EV-DO subscribers while Japan's NTT DoCoMo has only one third of that number on its 3GSM network, said the report.
[October 22, 2003, 11:25]
Broadband Korea - How They Made It Work
News Whereas the UK and much of western Europe is considered densely populated -- on a level with east Asia -- South Korea's population is more densely concentrated than most. The level of broadband rollout in South Korea (it's now in 67 per cent of...
[October 11, 2002, 13:00]
EU Teams With Korea On IPv6 Development
News In Asia, South Korea, Japan and China have emerged as the strongest proponents of the new technology, backed by domestic network equipment manufacturers and bodies such as the IPv6 Forum. According to a statement from Korea's Ministry of...
[January 19, 2004, 8:45]
Asian Windows Alternative 'would Raise Competition Issues'
News A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an alternative operating system to Microsoft's Windows software would raise concerns over fair competition, the world's No.software maker said on Friday.
[September 8, 2003, 9:15]
Asian Powers Seal Operating System Plan
News Japan, China and South Korea will jointly research and develop non-Windows, open-source operating systems, sealing a much talked-about deal and provoking a reaction from Microsoft. In a Reuters report, Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based...
[September 8, 2003, 10:25]
3G Sales To Be Weak 'until 2006'
News Worldwide sales of 3G handsets remain weak, except in Japan and South Korea where 3G services have been available since 2001, according to data released by ARC Group this week. These emerging 3G markets will do well to learn from Japan and South...
[November 12, 2004, 11:30]
