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Increasing open APIs for Mobile App

To help mobile developers, government and mobile operators are starting to open their own application programming interfaces (API). Before the smartphone era, mobile operators were sharing APIs with only their own content providers in what was called a "walled garden."

Augmented Reality Application Rushing Forward

Augmented Reality (AR), or technology to show information of the real-world through a smartphone, is emerging as an essential smartphone application.

Smartphone Banking Apps Surging

With the spread of smartphones, the number of mobile banking users has increased to 680,000 or 6.1% with 11,850,000 as of end of March, up from 11,170,000 at the end of December. In the same period, the number of smartphones grew from 13,000 to 93,000. 

With increasing mobile banking, its portion among Internet banking in the first quarter is growing at 6.8% with transactions, while recording 1% increases with amounts over the previous quarter.