South Korea’s communications regulator said Saturday it is checking to see if Google’s new privacy policy of combining all user information into a single trove violates local laws. A source at the Korea and Communications Commission said an investigation is underway to see if the measures being planned by the global search engine conflict with domestic private information protection and open use...

Apple's iPad 3 will make its debut in the first week of March, sources told AllThingsD. The tech news site reported Wednesday unnamed sources have said the first week of next month has been chosen by Apple for the launch event, probably at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, site of a number of the company's past events. John Paczkowski, writing for AllThingsD, said he believes "re...

Apple Inc., maker of the iPad and iPhone, for the second time failed to win a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N from a German court. The Dusseldorf Regional Court rejected the bid today in a case where Apple invoked a European design right. Apple last week lost a similar attempt over a technology patent in a Munich court. A Dusseldorf appeals court last week upheld Apple's ...

South Korean mobile carriers’ investment rose 20 percent in 2011 from a year earlier mainly on increased spending to build high-speed long-term evolution networks, the telecommunications watchdog said Thursday. The three mobile carriers including top player SK Telecom Co. spent 7.67 trillion won ($6.86 billion) on investment in 2011, compared with 6.4 trillion won a year earlier, according to th...

Korea’s telecom titan KT Corp. said Monday that its fourth-quarter net profit rose 12.5 percent from a year earlier due to a one-off factor. Net income came to 210.6 billion won ($188.9 million) in the October-December period of last year, compared with 187.1 billion won a year ago, the company said in a regulatory filing. Sales jumped 24.7 percent on-year to 6.4 trillion won over the same peri...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The image Steve Appleton cultivated as a stunt pilot and off-road rally driver became the perfect metaphor for his wild, 18-year ride as the leader of Micron Technology Inc., where stomach-churning swings from billion-dollar profit to billion-dollar loss required the constitution of a business daredevil to survive. Appleton, Micron's chief executive officer, died Friday morn...

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that a German court has rejected Apple Inc’s bid to impose a sales ban on its tablet computer and the new Nexus smartphone in the European country. The Munich Regional Court on Wednesday rejected Apple’s request to impose a preliminary sales ban on Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab 10.1 N and Nexus smartphones, according to Samsung. Apple cl...

Apple Inc. lost a bid in a Munich court for a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone. The Munich Regional Court rejected the motion in a case where Apple invoked a patent granted last year protecting some technology related to touch screens for tablets and smartphones. “Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent wi...