LG Display said on Tuesday its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TVs have received Intertek’s Accurate Picture Quality certification.The UK-based quality assessment company measured the delta zero color fidelity, black luminance and viewing angle colorshift of the OLED panel.LG scored 0.

The shipment of OLED panels for smartphone nosedived in the second quarter of 2020 to 87 million units, UBI Research said on Monday.It is a fall of 23.1% from the same time period a year ago and a drop of 17% from the first quarter of 2020.The shipment decline came from low shipment of rigid OLED pa

Ace Technologies is taking part in the contract making project given by a global telecom equipment maker based in Europe, TheElec has learned.The South Korean telecom component maker was chosen as a joint development manufacturer, or JDM, by the European telecom equipment maker late last year as wel

Seoul National University professor Hong Yong-taek has won the 17th Merck Award at International Meeting of Information Displays (IMID), Merck Korea said on Monday.The price is given for academic papers in display technology. The award was set by IMID and hosted by Korean Information Display Society

Huawei has installed a pilot base stations that has 5G super uplink and downlink carrier aggregation technology applied in China, the company said on Monday.5G super uplink uses time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) methods together.Carrier aggregation, as it name suggests,

Samsung Electronics will apply its S Pen stylus to the Galaxy S21 smartphone series launching next year, TheElec has confirmed.It will mark the first time for an S series smartphone to have the stylus.The S Pen stylus has been the distinguishing point for the Galaxy Note series. Samsung is yet to de

SK Telecom said Sunday that its blockchain-based authentication app Initial has been synced with Samsung’s counterpart Samsung Blockchain Keystore.It will make the carrier app, a decentralized identifier service, even safer, the carrier claimed.Personal key will be saved on Samsung’s keystore in Sam

South Korean carrier KT has been chosen to lead South Korea’s free public Wi-Fi project, the carrier and the Ministry of Science and ICT said.The company will install 10,000 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11az) based access points within the year.Around 18 billion won has been earmarked for the project.In total, KT w

Israeli X-Ray start-up Nanox listed on NASDAQ on Friday.SK Telecom, which instead US$23 million to the company and is the second-largest shareholder of the start-up with 2.6 million shares, secured 11.5 billion won from the listing in the first day.Nanox’s share price rose 20.56% to be worth US$21.7

KT has opened a data center in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent to monitor electricity use, the company said.The data center will collect data from 8 million smart meters that will be installed nationwide, the telco said.KT will provide support in managing the data center for the next two years.The cen

South Korean start-up Alamis has developed plate alumina that will be used to coat separators in lithium-ion batteries, the company said on Friday.It is a first for a South Korean firm to develop the core material alumina used to coat separators. The market is currently dominated by Japan’s Sumitomo

India’s three major carriers are moving away from using telecom equipment from Huawei and ZTE from the rising tension between India and China.The void caused by the absence of these Chinese companies will likely benefit Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia more than it does Samsung Electronics, peo

KT will allow consumers use its mobile identification card when they are subscribing to its services, the telco said.Potential subscribers can download the mobile payment authentication app Pass, and download their own mobile driver’s license. This will be accepted at KT stores as a legitimate ident

Aruba, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has built a software-defined network SDN at Seoul National University’s campus, the company said.The company built the network using its Wi-Fi 6-based Aruba AP515 access point at Siheung Campus of the university.Aruba synced its Aruba 7240XM control

SK Telecom said it has applied its quantum security technology on a banking app, on Thursday.IM Bank app run by DGB Daegu Bank, when paired with Samsung Galaxy A Quantum smartphones, will have the technology, the telco said.The QRNG, or quantum random number generator, chip on the smartphone will cr

South Korea battery equipment are planning to for ma consortium to better handle orders from Swedish battery firm Northvolt, TheElec has learned.Northvolt was reviewing using Japanese trading company DJK Group to place orders for the equipment it needs to South Korean companies, people familiar with

Samsung Electronics was developing 28GHz 5G small cell to supply to US carrier Verizon, TheElec has confirmed.The cells will be made using Qualcomm’s 5G chipset, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.Samsung’s network business has previously supplied 4G small cells to the US carrier, made

KT and Woori Financial Group will collaborate on digital finance businesses that can be done remotely, the companies aid on Wednesday.The two conglomerates are co-owners of internet bank K Bank.KT’s IT technology will be applied to Woori’s current services that are done face-to-face and at close qua

KT has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) based energy management service aimed at unmanned stores, the telco said Wednesday.It will first applied to vending machines in unmanned stores operated by start-up Phase Commu.Data collected from temperature sensors within the machines will be stored

Semiconductor wafer transfer equipment maker Cymechs will receive funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to develop new wafer transfer robots used in chip production lines, the company said on Wednesday.The company will be eligible to get up to 8 billion won in funding for the next