Samsung, Sony, Canon go after premium compact, smart camera markets With the country’s craze for smart gadgets like smartphones and tablet PCs, cameras are also getting smarter, sleeker and more stylish to attract wider attention. Camera makers such as Sony, Samsung Electronics and Canon are now going after the premium compact and mirrorless camera market with products that exceed the functiona...

Sony Computer Entertainment Korea will unveil on Thursday a white version of the PlayStation Vita. The Wi-Fi-enabled game console will be coated in Crystal White, the first color variation for the gadget from the original piano black. PS Vita is designed to help users experience “a portable entertainment world” in their daily life with a 5-inch OLED touch-sensitive screen, dual analog stick and...

Apple Inc. won a court order immediately blocking U.S. sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer while the companies litigate Apple’s patent-infringement claims. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, issued the order today after rejecting a similar request in December. Apple’s request, part of a broader patent dispute over smartphones and tablets, was bas...

SK Hynix said Monday that it released its first solid-state drive product for general consumers. The client 2.5-inch SSD, named “SH910,” consists of ONFI synchronous NAND flash memory using 20 nanometer-class process, with available capacities of 128GB and 256GB. It significantly improves speed and reliability by adopting the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment 3 interface with data transmiss...

JERUSALEM (AP) ― Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Tuesday warned that vast numbers of the world’s population are missing out on the advantages brought by the Internet. Schmidt said that about 2 billion people, less than a third of the world’s population, have Internet access, and 1 billion have smartphones. “The World Wide Web has yet to live up to its name,’’ he said. “Technology do...

New multiplayer online game to go head-to-head with ‘Diablo 3’ NCsoft will launch its long-awaited massively multiplayer online role-playing game “Blade and Soul” in Korea on Thursday, setting up a showdown with the most popular “Diablo 3” to dominate the local online game market. The online game developer said Wednesday that the new online game will be launched at 4 p.m. during a free open bet...

LG Electronics has formed a business alliance with foreign television makers in an effort to promote smart TVs worldwide. Korea’s second biggest consumer electronics company has forged partnerships with TP Vision, the Netherlands/Taiwanese TV maker, and Japan-based Sharp. The consortium, named the “Smart TV Alliance,” to be headed by LG Electronics executive Kwon Bong-suk, is the first of its k...

Microsoft on Monday unveiled a Surface tablet computer as the technology titan steps in with its own hardware to take on Apple's market-ruling iPads. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer described the iPad challenger as a tablet that "works and plays" when he showed it off at a press event in Los Angeles. Surface is also the name of table and poster-sized touch screen computers that Microsof...