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DCI Data Centres, (DCI), a wholly-owned portfolio company of data centre infrastructure Brookfield, announced it has kicked off the construction of its first data centre in Seoul, South Korea, in collaboration with conglomerate Daelim.

US smartphone shipments in the second quarter fell by 24% year-on-year, surpassing the fall for global shipments for the period which was 11%, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

Shanghai has been named the smartest city for the second year again in a row due to its Suishenban Citizen Cloud, which provides access to 1,000 different services for residents as well as its strong deployment of 5G and digital twins, according to a study by Juniper Research.

Seoul recorded the fastest average 5G download speeds clocking at 453.1Mbps, 20.3% faster than the speeds observed in the next fastest city, Kuala Lumpur clocking at 376.1Mbps, according to a new analysis by independent analytics company Opensignal.

Australia and New Zealand rental electric scooter operator Neuron Mobility has further expanded globally with the launch of a fleet of its safety-first e-scooters in the Korean capital of Seoul.

Global data centre provider Digital Realty has acquired land in the South Korean capital of Seoul for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data centre facility.

Samsung chief executive D.J. Koh has admitted that he is to blame for the debacle of the folding smartphone Galaxy Fold, telling a media group in Seoul that he had pushed the project through.

Sydney is one of a number of artificial intelligence "experience zones" established across the Asia Pacific and Japan region by Dell EMC, in partnership with Intel, as part of a move to accelerate AI adoption across the region.

South Korea's SK Telecom says it will launch 5G services on Friday, with competitors KT and LG Uplus expected to also get on-board the same day.

South Korea intends to tax Amazon, Google, Apple and other multinational technology companies, as these enterprises earn billions of dollars within the country and pay no taxes under existing rules.

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been sentenced to five years in prison for bribery, embezzlement and other charges.

ANALYSIS Samsung has two important dates this week which will bring either joy or sorrow to the company. The Galaxy Note 8 is slated for launch in New York on Wednesday, a device that the company hopes will erase the memories of the Note7 which turned into a fiasco last year.

Prosecutors in the trial of Samsung Group's de facto leader Lee Jae-yong have demanded that he be jailed for 12 years for his alleged links to a corruption scandal that led to the ouster of South Korea's former president Park Geun-hye.

NBN Co, the builder of the national broadband network, has moved to defend the higher costs of deploying fibre-to-the-premises in Australia and “set the record straight” on recent media claims about the local cost of FttP compared to other operators around the world.

Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong has told the Seoul Central District Court that he is innocent of bribery and other criminal charges levelled against him by special prosecutors, at his first court hearing on Thursday.

Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong has been formally arrested on charges of bribery in connection with an influence-peddling scandal that has led to a vote for impeachment of the country's president, Park Geun-hye.

South Korea has announced that it will increase the safety requirements for lithium-ion batteries in the wake of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 incidents.

Despite its claims of testing more than 200,000 Galaxy Note7 devices, 30,000 batteries and using people from its own units and two other outfits, in the end Samsung Electronics still does not know the "root cause" of the issues it faced.

Samsung's official investigation into its Galaxy Note7 device, which began to explode and catch fire a month after release, has found that it was due to the irregular size of some batteries while others had manufacturing defects, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

More than three months after it was forced to pull the Galaxy Note7 from production, Samsung Electronics has finally given an indication of when it will make an official statement about the fiasco.