The CEO of South Korea, the consumer electronics company LG Electronics has resigned Friday amid declining sales of mobile phones, according to press reports.
Yong Nam, told Reuters, will be replaced Oct. 1 by Koo Bon-joon, 59, who is the chief operating officer of the company LG International. The director general of entry is a member of the company’s founding family and younger brother of LG Group Chairman Koo Bon-moo.
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Once online tools built especially for friends stay in touch, the media have since evolved into the digital platforms that companies now to advance the brand and revenue. However, companies adopting these tools must devote adequate resources and user mindset drive for success, say industry observers.
According to Gartner, by 2015, 20 percent of enterprises employing social media marketing beyond are expected to lead their industries in revenue growth. The research firm noted that social media is a seed point for companies to communicate information about themselves, products, services and promotions that consumers want to consider.
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Apple will begin selling the iPhone Wi-Fi in April in China on Saturday, the company announced today.
A 16GB model will sell for about U.S. $ 743 and 32-GB version for about U.S. $ 892 no contract at all Apple stores in China. The phone will also be available through telecom operators China Unicom, with a two-year contract at prices of Apple gave no details.
Apple announced this week it would begin selling the Wi-Fi IPAD only in China on Friday with the same characteristics as the current version of IPAD in other parts of the world. However, Apple did not immediately respond to the 3G version is available for purchase and there was no word when or if it would be.
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In an email interview, Ambrose Fong, director of marketing for the collaboration of Cisco Asia-Pacific, said companies are becoming increasingly complex and driving change in individuals and organizations how they operate.
Cisco is involved in helping service providers for retail in Singapore to deliver and develop services in the enhanced wireless broadband network in the country on its authority Platform Innovation Centre (EPIC @ SG), created in December 2008.
A key trend that is transforming business is the global value chain, “said Fong. “[The companies are working now] with external suppliers, partners and contractors throughout the country, region and the world.
“The work has expanded through several time zones, forcing a change in where we work and where we work. [This] the change is happening inside and outside corporate firewalls,” he said.
In an email interview, Allison Baird, director of customer service from Alexander Mann Solutions Asia Pacific, said the Internet has become a tool of life “support” for many users. “An incredible variety” of activities has moved online, ranging from interaction with friends and family to shopping, communication, recruitment, research and collaboration, he added.
Users can also access the Internet at the march with their Web-enabled mobile phones, a feat that was “considered laughable” 10 years ago, he said.
The key areas of increasing import
Baird also highlighted four key areas that she thinks IT will become increasingly important with the NGN:
1. Online / Web Productivity
As technology advances, the interface allows users to interact with the content will evolve, too, said Baird.
Therefore, there will be “enormous potential” in the design of Web productivity as people find new and more efficient ways to interact with technology, and improve user productivity.
2. Behavioral Analysis
Human behavior is still the driving force behind everything people do, said Baird, who makes him understand the behavior of their colleagues, customers and competitors is essential for organizations.
This situation is even more pronounced in virtual environments, he said, for people who are able to understand, predict and take advantage of human behavior in line will be in great demand.
virtual exchange actually grow, especially in the global value chain, according to Fong.
“As our team expands expanded to include contractors, partners and suppliers outside the company network, the business of the future need to understand how to collaborate with colleagues from around the world and across units business, “he said.
He added that collaboration solutions such as unified communications to connect people, information and equipment, allowing collaborative experiences have comprehensive and effective.
3. Information Specialists
In its response to the trends that affect organizations, Fong said that companies and users now face the problem of information overload.
“We are living in the participation age” when the Web 2.0 tools such as video portals, podcasts, blogs, wikis and discussion forums are changing the face of how information is created, published, managed and consumed, “he said.
This reflects the expectations of Baird that information specialists will be highly in demand. “Apart from the issues of managing information effectively, there are numerous considerations to be taken into account when buying [for] and the use of the information,” he said.
Information specialists will also be necessary to prove the authenticity and legality of the information and to establish the context and history, he said.
4. Digital Brand
Not only individuals of today who need to keep your online image, politicians, celebrities and major companies are also using the web to carefully build their brands, “said Baird. “As more and more emphasis is put on stage in the net, digital branding specialists will demand much higher.”
Asian countries are preparing for the NGN. Singapore, for example, wiring is in the middle of the city-state with the next-generation fiber-optic National Broadband Network (NBN).
Since March this year, Malaysia has embarked on the information highway high speed, although access rates in the country are still higher than others in the region.
On Monday, the fiber optic network connecting Cambodia to the other four countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion – Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China – had begun operation, The Phnom Penh Post. U.S. $ 17,600,000 of the net is said to have links with a network capacity of 2.5 Gbps.
Juniper Networks plans to acquire wireless security firm SMobile for about U.S. $ 70,000,000 cash, the companies announced Tuesday.
The network equipment maker Juniper said it plans to integrate SMobile portfolio of security software for smartphones and tablets at Junos software Pulse, offering connectivity, security and acceleration for smartphones, netbooks, notebooks and tablets.
“Juniper and ensures the most traffic of mobile phones in the United States, is a world leader in servers, high-end security and SSL VPN (2) of the market, allowing more than 25 million end users so remotely and securely connect their PCs and smart phones to corporate networks, “said Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager of Service Layer Technologies at Juniper Networks. “The integration of the portfolio in Junos Press SMobile provide users with comprehensive security solution available in the mobile market.”
The companies did not say when the agreement is close.
Juniper is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and SMobile is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.