Park Hyeon-joo, chairman of Mirae Asset Financial Group, said on Mar. 2, “Mirae Asset will make a massive investment in smart farms including solar energy and wind power projects.” “To make South Korea a country worth visiting, we will pay attention to the environment, tourism and infrastructure and make investment decisions,” Park added.Chairman Park also expressed his willingness to engage i

Operators are already aware of the success of Pokemon Go, with the likes of Sprint and Reliance Jio using the game to attract customers to their stores. But there are still untapped opportunities that Niantic CEO John Hanke wanted to focus on, such as promoting direct carrier billing and improving location tech.At the moment with direct carrier billing “we have only scratched the surface”, he sa

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced on Feb.27 that it entered into an agreement with Nokia to cooperate in the quantum cryptography business.Under the agreement, SK Telecom and Nokia will conduct joint research and development activities to achieve interworking between SK Telecom’s Quantum Key Distribution System (QKD) and Nokia’s next-generation optical transport system by the second half of this yea

On Feb. 27 In the sleepy home appliance industry, new trends are few and far between. Likely due to the nature of appliances - big, expensive and long-lasting, the demand for flashy new innovations from customers is nonexistent compared to the smartphone industry. In 2011, LG Electronics (LG) decided to try something new. They introduced the LG Styler, a consumer-targeted waterless “garment care s

Globally renown industrial designer Torsten Valeur said in an interview (https://goo.gl/Ir0T4v) that he had a chance to see the LG G6 recently and praised it as “the ideal fusion of... beautiful shape and clever solution and obviously great user experience... the essence of what a smartphone is.” Torsten Valeur, CEO of Danish design studio David Lewis Designers, is a recipient of multiple industry

According to the press release of Nasdaq Globe Newswire on Feb. 21, Check Point president Amnon Bar-Lev recognized as 2017 CRN® Channel Chief for the tenth consecutive year, Arcserve CEO Mike Crest recognized as 2017 CRN Channel chief, Informatica Channel Leader, Rodney Foreman, named a 2017 CRN® Channel Chief and Pax8’s Ryan Walsh recognized as 2017 CRN® Channel Chief.Check Point® Software Tech

Data science software maker, Dataiku, recently completed a worldwide survey that asked thousands of companies: how does your organization put data science into production? The most companies using data science have unique challenges that fall into four different profiles: Small Data Teams, Packagers, Industrialisation Maniacs, and The Big Data Lab. Here is an Interview article with Florian Douette

The Korean government decided to pursue “4-Up” strategies for boosting the startup sector to create jobs and secure future growth engines. According to Minister of the MSIP(Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning) Choi Yang-hee, the government plans to promote entrepreneurship and innovative SMEs in 2017.Choi explained "In the plan to promote entrepreneurship and innovative SMEs, the

  The EBRD President had meetings with Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna, who is Luxembourg’s Governor at the EBRD.Mr Gramegna will chair the EBRD’s Board of Governors’ discussions at the Bank’s Annual Meeting this year in Cyprus and the talks this week were an opportunity to prepare for the May 9-11 conference.The meeting wi

Based in Casablanca, Ms Veilleux-Laborie will assume her role on Feb. 1, succeeding Laurent Chabrier. She will be responsible for the EBRD’s investments and operations in the country and report to Janet Heckman, the Bank’s new Managing Director for the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region.Ms Veilleux-Laborie joined the EBRD in 2007 and initially worked for the Financial Institutions

Vingtor-Stentofon by Zenitel Group, the leader in critical communication solutions for the security industry, announced a new Vice President of Sales for its North American Division on Jan. 26.“We lead the industry by delivering to our customers the highest levels of voice intelligibility in our audio solutions”, said Jim Hoffpauir, President of Zenitel USA. “Our innovations in 2016 demonstrates

Teachers and students from Ireland, Romania and Portugal were connected by video to ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on the International Space Station on Jan. 24.Every year, ESA organise a call with a Space Station astronaut for primary and secondary school teachers, students, scientists and engineers as part of its educational programme.This year, events were organised in Limerick, Ireland, Timi

The Korea IT Times releases a transcript of article by TechCrunch. The article  explains China’s internet giant Baidu has beefed up on its AI talent after it announced the hiring of former Microsoft executive Qi Lu as group president and COO. Dr. Lu reported directly to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. Dr. Qi Lu has also served as executive vice president of engineering for Search

The Korea IT Times releases a transcript of article by Dr.Peter Diamandis as follows.The article is about analysis and response to robots and artificial intelligence that could be steal our jobs.Some fear that robots and AI will steal our jobs.They probably will (in the near-term, at least half of them).If that happens, what will we do for a living? How will we earn money?In this post I’ll be di

The ITU news magazine published its key theme of 'Accelerating ICT growth together' on cover. Korea IT Times releases the news clipping of the keynote speech from Dr. Lee Dong-myun, Senior Executive vice president of KT Corporation, South Korea during ITU Telecom world 2016.The business benefits of providing ultra-fast Internet that 5G systems will help enable are clear — especially in developed

In the era of intelligent information technologies where everything gets connected and intelligent, vast amounts of data collected through the IoT and mobile devices will be analyzed in real time by taking advantage of cloud computing and big data technology. And then another value of intelligent information will be created though artificial intelligence (AI).The Korean government also announced

USA, NIST had an interview with a Baldrige examiner, Chris Mitchell from Georgia.A quality advisor within the Georgia Department of Human Services, Chris has served on the Board of Examiners with competitively selected, these volunteers hail from many states, sectors, and professions for the past two years. Korea IT Times releases the original interview article of Chris Mitchell by Christine Schae

What are your main objectives and goals for fiscal year 2017?We were very fortunate in (Environmental Management(EM) in the last fiscal year to realize some significant achievements across the complex, and I think we’re on track to do the same this fiscal year.Of course, our highest priority is resuming waste emplacement activities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) once it is safe to d

Science for Society held its first seminar at the National Assembly Members' Office Building to mark its foundation on  Nov. 28. The 1st seminar was attended by dignitaries such as Korean neuroscientist Cho Zang-hee, Rep. Moon Mi-ok of the Minjoo Party of Korea (MPK), Rep. Kim Soon-rae of the Saenuri Party, Rep. Shin Yong-hyun of the People's Party to celebrate the foundation of Science for Societ

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) said on Nov. 18 that Min Won-ki, head of the Office of Planning and Coordination at the MSIP, was elected as chairman of the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) during the CDEP’s meeting held on Nov.16-18 in Paris, France. The tenure is five years.The MSIP said, “Min becomes the first Korean to lead an OECD committee since S. Ko