The launch of innovation-focused virtual network operators like SK-Earthlink?s Helio will push the big carriers to deliver cool applications.
The joint venture, to be called SK-EarthLink, will lease its network from existing carriers and focus on attracting high-end, data-centric customers.
Daily Facials, a disposable cleansing cloth that also moisturizes skin, is an idea from the paper group--Pampers, Charmin, Bounty--and is now being borrowed by SK-II and Old Spice.
Police alleged that SK co-ordinated an attack on Spamhaus in protest over its decision to add servers maintained by Cyberbunker to a spam blacklist.
These days, consumers are getting ready for the launch of the BluEye by SK Telecom -- a matchbook-sized projector that simply plugs into your handset to screen mobile videos.
Eighty-six percent of SK Telecom's mobile-phone customers have wireless Internet capability on their handsets.
So, this week, there was the billionaire heir of the giant SK conglomerate, Chey Tae-won, back in the dock and, indeed, quickly in jail on an embezzlement finding.
The best performer from last year: Korea-based energy giant SK , which rose 357%.
In order to focus on their cellular-phone business, SK Telecom folded their NetsGo internet service provider and Lycos Korea into their subsidiary SK Communications in November 2002.
Currently, the top five companies that account for a third of stock holdings, he says, are non-Hyundai blue chips SK Telecom, power utility KEPCO, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, and steel giant POSCO.
SK's chairman, Chey Tae-won, had been convicted for his part in an accounting fraud.
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Russia's FBI-style Investigative Committee (SK) confined him to Moscow after questioning him about an alleged plot to seize power in Russia.
One winner benefiting from this trend is SK Telecom (nyse: SKM - news - people ), which now counts 17 million cellular users and a 53% market share in South Korea.
By partnering with SK Telecom (nyse: SKM - news - people ), EarthLink hopes to gain the expertise and technology of one of the most advanced wireless carriers in the world.
We have a new technology partnership with Dell for our money-saving xFD technology and new long-term licensing agreements with SK Hynix plus a multiyear deal with Samsung to use our advanced face detection software in every Galaxy S4 phone sold worldwide.
The two went to work for their acquiring company but they had a vision for a multi-player mobile gaming community that SK Group could not see.
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Chey Tae-won, the chairman of SK Group, was indicted in January over the disappearance of 99 billion won from company coffers, as part of a scheme allegedly planned by his brother to cover futures-trading losses.
The 35-year-old, identified by police as "SK", was arrested last week.
The 23-year-old joined the Lanarkshire side on loan from SK Sigma Olomouc in August 2007, then extended the deal until the end of this season.
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