BRUSSELS (Yonhap News) -- A Dutch court on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction against the sale of smartphones by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. in the Netherlands in a patent dispute raised by U.S. electronics manufacturer Apple Inc. The injunction, issued by a district court in the Hague, applies to only Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones and will take effect from Oct. 13, accor...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Apple plans to begin trial production of a next generation iPad in October with an eye to an early 2012 launch, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the situation," said Apple is working with component suppliers and its assembler in Asia on the iPad 3 and has ordered key components such as display panels and chips. It said the nex...

Youngsters are growing tired of social networking services including Facebook, You Tube and Twitter, according to a survey. In research conducted by marketing company Gartner, the frequency of total visits to those websites is ever-decreasing, while one out of four users between 18 and 29 said the online activities have become too boring, the Telegraph reported. Other reasons for indifference i...

TOKYO (AFP) -- Japan's Sony and Panasonic and South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday they will jointly develop new standards for glasses used to watch 3D images on television, computer and movie screens. The three Asian consumer electronics giants, working with European technology firm X6D Limited, said their collaboration will cover a technology called "3D active glasses", according to ...

The Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office reportedly arrested an escaping criminal, surnamed Kim, by utilizing Kakao Talk service, the nation-wide mobile communication network. Kim, 39, made a getaway after he was sentenced to two months of imprisonment for drunk driving in May. A criminal investigator at the Sungnam police office, also surnamed Kim, found the criminal’s phone number and used Kaka...

A massive hacking incident that hammered SK Communications, which runs popular social network site Cyworld and the third-ranked portal Nate.com, is now exposing additional security loopholes at other IT companies. Police said the ESTsoft server might have been used by a hacker who stole the personal information of SK’s 35 million users. ESTsoft is none other than a security solution provider whi...