The Korea Herald

RSS

More than 1 million visit SKT pavilion at Yeosu Expo

Aug 10, 2012

SK Telecom’s pavilion for the Yeosu Expo has attracted more than 1 million visitors since it opened in May, company officials said. The officials said the pavilion received its 1 millionth visitor Friday, two days before the Expo ends its three-month run in the southern coastal area on Sunday. Expo organizers expect the number of visitors to reach 8 million as targeted by the organizing committ...
Android rules global sales of smartphones in Q2: data

Aug 9, 2012

About two-thirds of smartphones shipped globally in the second quarter ran on Google Inc.’s Android platform, data showed Thursday, further cementing its dominance over other operating system. Shipments of Android-powered smartphones totaled 104.8 million units in the April-June period, more than doubling from 50.8 million units the previous year, according to the data by market intelligence fir...
SK Telecom, CJ form IT, content partnership

Aug 9, 2012

SK Telecom and CJ Group have formed a partnership to collaborate on providing convergence services for IT and cultural content amid the rising use of smart devices. Korea’s largest telecom company said that it will closely work with Korea’s leading food and entertainment conglomerate in the areas of marketing and distribution of mobile content. Both sides will be able to benefit from SK Telecom...
KCC to strengthen supervision of three major telecom firms

Aug 9, 2012

Korea Communications Commission said Thursday that it will strengthen its supervision and management of the country’s three telecom companies ― SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus ― to further prevent personal data and information leaks. Its announcement came after KT, Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, was found to have had its system breached by a hacker, a company telemarketing agent, last month....
SK Platform opens Hoppin to other telecom users

Aug 8, 2012

SK Planet will allow users or subscribers of other telecom network services operated by KT and LG Uplus to access SK’s media platform and see a variety of entertainment content. The mobile platform operating subsidiary of SK Telecom said the media platform named “Hoppin” will open beginning Aug. 8 to such users who can enjoy video on demand, television shows and movies, as well as other free pro...
LG Uplus launches smart foreign education service

Aug 8, 2012

LG Uplus, the smallest of Korea’s three telecom companies, has formed an alliance with foreign language education service providers to launch smart education services in foreign languages via Long Term Evolution. With partnerships with Korea’s YBM Sisa, Edubox and SDA, Uplus will kick off the service in September, featuring native speakers and teachers through its fast and real-time LTE networks...
Samsung, LG unveil VoLTE smartphones

Aug 8, 2012

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday they have released smartphones that support the voice over Long-Term Evolution service. The release comes in line with the start of commercialized VoLTE services by local mobile carriers SK Telecom Co. and LG Uplus Corp. The VoLTE service, which offers voice calls through the fourth-generation LTE networks, enables clearer quality a...
Global gaming exhibition to feature online blockbusters

Aug 8, 2012

Nexon, Blizzard will showcase new games at gamescom to open next week in Germany Gamescom, one of the world’s largest game premieres, is gearing up to feature new innovations in the sectors of mobile games, online games, console and PC games when it kicks off next Wednesday in Cologne, Germany. Scheduled for a five-day run, big name game firms like Nexon Europe, Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom, ...
Apple pulling its YouTube app from iOS 6

Aug 7, 2012

Apple Inc. has removed its YouTube app from its latest beta version of iOS 6, with the Cupertino, Calif., company saying its license from Google has expired. The app will not be included in the next version of its mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Since the iPhone went on sale in 2007, Apple‘s YouTube app has come pre-installed on the comp...
KT, Microsoft to support HTML5 app developers

Aug 6, 2012

KT and Microsoft Korea announced on Monday that they will collaborate to promote the development of HTML5-based applications. Under a memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies, KT and MS will seek and support Korean app developers for the World Wide Web, including venture tech start-ups and self-employed entrepreneurs. Korea’s Internet network conglomerate and the global software ...
Korea expected to become 4th-largest mobile ad market

Aug 6, 2012

Global ad spending to top $6b this year Korea is expected to become the world’s fourth-largest mobile advertising market this year. In a report by eMarketer, a U.S. IT research firm, spending for mobile advertisements in Korea is estimated to reach over $450 million this year, up about 40 percent from $320 million in 2011. Korea will follow the U.S., Japan and the U.K. in terms of ad spending....
Samsung set to release Galaxy Note 10.1 in U.S.

Aug 5, 2012

Tech giant Samsung Electronics may release its Android tablet PC, Galaxy Note 10.1, in U.S. markets in the middle of this month. The speculation came after American tech and electronics website CNET unveiled a recent press invitation issued by Samsung Electronics at New York’s Lincoln Center on Aug. 15. In the invitation, the main graphic outlines a product that closely matches the specificatio...
Judge denies Apple’s bid for Samsung sanctions

Aug 5, 2012

A federal judge on Friday denied Apple Inc.’s demands for an immediate victory in a multibillion-dollar patent trial. Apple sought the long-shot bid as punishment for Samsung Electronics Inc.’s decision to issue a controversial press release on the first day of testimony. The San Jose Mercury News reported Friday that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh denied Apple’s request after polling the nine jur...
Low-income households have higher default risks: report

Aug 5, 2012

The ratio of “debt-risk” households among low-income brackets are significantly higher than the national average, a report showed Sunday, confirming that poor families are more vulnerable to worsening economic and financial conditions. According to the report by the state-run Korea Development Institute, the ratio of households deemed to have insufficient ability to pay back their debt among the...
Samsung defeats Apple bid for sanctions over evidence

Aug 4, 2012

Samsung Electronics Co. defeated a bid for judicial sanctions sought by Apple Inc. over a release of evidence in the iPhone patent dispute now on trial in San Jose federal court in California. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh today dismissed Apple’s request to punish a Samsung lawyer’s public disclosure of evidence excluded from trial. Koh polled jurors on the matter and concluded they could remain ...

MORE 15 / 9536▽

Go to Desktop Version

The Korea Herald by Herald Corporation Copyright Herald Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu,Seoul, Korea
Online newspaper registration No : Seoul 아03711
Date of registration : 2015.04.28
Publisher. Editor : Jeon Chang-hyeop
Juvenile Protection Manager: Ahn Sung-mi
Tel : 02.727.0114