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division within the IT industry, the well-made plan is off to a flying
start and expect many more.
This event was hosted by KCC and jointly led by six other organizations
including, Korea Association of Information &
Telecommunications (KAIT), Electronics and Telecommunications
Research and Institute (ETRI), Korea Information
Society Development Institute (KISDI), Korea Internet &
Security Agency (KISA), Telecommunications Technology
Association (TTA), and Korea Radio Promotion Agency (KOR-
PA).
Bang Jung-hyun / jbang@koreaittimes.com
Conference
held in Lotte
Hotel Seoul
Furthermore, according to Kim Heung-nam the Research
Director at Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Institute (ETRI), the newly-merged telecommunications compound
to tear down the former boundary between terminals, network,
and service sectors and this will lead to a cultural revolution
that alters the way how people think and react. In other words, by
converging with other divisions' technologies and services, the
former telecommunications business structure is going to change
and the modern, blend of different businesses will affect what new
cultural paradigm will bring about.
Such metamorphosis in the IT exemplar will arguably influence
the market from early this year and will, by and large, be the
biggest social change of our times. While conventional wire and
wireless telecommunications market dwindle or remain deadlocked,
value-added services market such as mobile Internet and
games will grow exponentially by the expansion of the mobile industry.
As stated by Bang Suk-ho, Research Director at Korea
Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), "Wire market
that was the main asset to the telecommunications will presumably
shrink by 4.5 percent, but mobile market, together with
increased production of smart phones will escalate by 3.1 percent
and generate approximately KRW23 trillion in sales." By that
yardstick cell phone and TV market gained KRW85 trillion,
roughly 8.9 percent growth compared to last year. This growth in
mobile equipment is back in line with gauge prior to 2008 and before
the financial crisis.
Generally speaking, Korea holds high place on IT human resources
and its infrastructure but it lags behind foreign countries
for its lack of employing those services and disclosing institutional
regulation. Although it may be seem a bit late to produce a new
Real-times News
Apple Puts Ban on
Location-Based iPhone
App Ads
Apple told developers
that it will not use global
positioning system to
distribute locationbased
advertising
Without providing any reason,
Apple has told developers it
will not accept iPhone applications
that use the smartphone's
global positioning system to distribute
location-based advertising.
Knowing Apple, we're
thinking there's a good rhyme and reason for this ban-we're going
to go ahead and guess Apple's acquisition of Quattro
Wireless may have something to do with this new ban.
Quattro's platform is quite keen on distributing mobile ads,
which is probably why Apple scooped it up. The Mac-maker is
famous for its secrecy and for preferring to keep things "inhouse."
Apple is kind of like Robert DeNiro's character in the
movie Meet the Parents-it has its "circle of trust" and once
you're in, you're in.
"If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable
mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user's
location, your app will be returned to you by the App Store
Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the
App Store," Apple says. At the rate that people buy and download
apps for iPhone, location-based advertising is looking a lot
more promising to developers-and now it looks a little clearer
as to why Apple put the kibosh on that.
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