News Roundup
2008/04/25 23:14S-Oil has started testing a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system at a service station in Western Seoul:
The RFID system adopted by S-Oil is composed of three systems: wireless payment and point accumulation, customer management and mixed-gasoline alarm.
Through an RFID tag attached to customers' vehicles, the wireless payment and point accumulation system automatically reads vehicle and customer information, and supports wireless payment and bonus point accumulation.
S-Oil has a press release with additional details on the new system.
Shinhan Card and KTF have created a new mobile e-commerce joint venture:
Shinhan Card has been providing a credit card service in mobile phone terminals, but only two types of cards could be used in handsets, limiting the choice of customers. The joint venture aims to develop new types of mobile credit cards so that one day phones will replace plastic cards.
While gas price checking websites are popular around the world with soaring prices, the state-owned Korea National Oil Corporation is behind a new website Opinet to provide Korean drivers with gas prices online. The website crashed shortly after launching due to a high amount of traffic.
In response to a series of online security breaches, the Korean government has responded with plans to change the identification system used by portals and other websites:
The Broadcasting and Communications Commission (BCC) said Thursday that it will make Web sites adopt complex personal verification systems called iPIN and gPIN, instead of identifying users with their resident registration numbers.
The presidential commission is also to make Internet users to use at least eight-digit passwords on sites and to change them every three months to thwart hackers, said Cho Young-hoon, the BCC's manager of private information protection.
After a five year absence from the Korean market, Nokia is negotiating a return with SK Telecom to sell their phones in Korea.
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