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Hacker group launches online social network

Jul 19, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Infamous hacker group Anonymous launched Monday its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community. "Today we welcome you to begin anew," the hacker alliance said at the website anonplus.com, which it described as a platform to distribute information. "Welcome to the Revolution -- a new social network where there is no fear... of cen...
iPhone5 likely to debut in August: reports

Jul 15, 2011

The iPhone’s popularity is creating a buzz around the world with rumors of the smartphone possibly out during mid-August, according to reports. Tech media website Cnet said the rumor started with a notice posted by Gekko Ltd, a staffing firm located in the United Kingdom. Gekko said it is looking for full-time iPhone sales staff who were willing to work five days a week from Aug. 16 until Oct. ...
Lawyer pushes class action suit against Apple

Jul 14, 2011

A lawyer is pushing for a class action suit against Apple after he won a court battle last month over the iPhone’s location tracking. Apple Korea recently paid about 1 million won in compensation to attorney Kim Hyung-suk following a lower court’s ruling that the smartphone’s software violated his privacy. Kim, 31, and his company MiRaeLaw on Thursday began to collect applications for a collect...
VMware moves closer to customers with new solutions

Jul 13, 2011

At the top of VMware’s priorities for Korea, a nation becoming actively engaged in cloud computing, are plans for buttressing the firm’s localization initiative and moving closer to the business of its customers. “We need to get closer to the business of our customers and need to move up much closer, more to the consulting at the business level and become more vertically aligned so that our solu...
Number of smartphone users tops 15 mln in S. Korea

Jul 13, 2011

SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- The number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea hit 15 million this week, according to data from the country's three mobile operators released Wednesday. South Korean smartphone subscribers numbered 15.35 million as of Monday, including 7.8 million users at the industry leader SK Telecom Co., 5.45 million at KT Corp. and 2.1 million at LG Uplus Corp., the mobile ca...
Half of Americans watch videos during work

Jul 13, 2011

About half of American adults watch online videos unrelated to work while on the job, a U.S. survey showed. Men watch twice as often as women. The study showed that 25 percent watch news clips and 15 percent view viral videos. Other popular choices were sports (11 percent) and television shows (9 percent). Some are bold enough to view full-length feature films (4 percent) and even pornography (...
Korea clears way for ‘Angry Birds’ to take on ‘StarCraft’

Jul 12, 2011

Apple Inc. customers in South Korea who couldn’t download Rovio Mobile Ltd.’s best-selling “Angry Birds” on their iPhones will soon be able to find out why flinging vindictive fowl at green hogs can be addictive. Korea scrapped rules yesterday requiring developers to have mobile games rated by the government, said Yi Ki-jeong, a manager at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Seoul. Th...
Samsung retains LCD TV, 3-D TV leads in EU

Jul 12, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of TVs, maintained its lead in Europe’s major TV markets during the first five months of this year, a market researcher said Tuesday. According to GfK Group, the Korean TV maker accounted for 31.9 percent of Europe’s liquid crystal display TV market in May. Its market share stood at 30.8 percent in the January-May period. Samsung’s hometown ri...
Samsung smartphones set for space experiments

Jul 12, 2011

Astronomers are to conduct various space experiments with Samsung Electronics’ Nexus S Android smartphones carried by the space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis docked the International Space Station on Sunday after it was launched Friday as the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program. Samsung smart phones are to perform various tasks ranging from measuring and inspecting ISS along with a small sate...
‘GPS is allowed to find cheating husband’: U.S. court

Jul 11, 2011

‘GPS is allowed to find cheating husband’: U.S. court A New Jersey court has approved of a woman’s use of GPS to track down her suspicious husband. The woman hired a private investigator to follow her husband to find out whether he was having an affair. But when her husband, Kenneth Villanova, kept managing to avoid the investigator, he told her to place a tracking device in her husband’s...
KCC likely to bid in Hynix on Hyundai’s behalf

Jul 7, 2011

STX Group also continues to express interest to the last minute By Kim Ji-hyun and Choi He-suk KCC Corp., a member of Hyundai’s sprawling industrial empire, may submit its letter of intent for a stake in Hynix Semiconductor, industry sources said on Thursday. Reports of KCC’s intention to participate in the bidding came shortly after Hyundai Heavy Industries said it would not be participatin...
How to goof around without your boss knowing

Jul 6, 2011

Office workers who spend everyday glaring at a computer screen find it hard to keep their concentration throughout work hours. It is difficult to access Facebook, Twitter or other websites when the boss is watching. “Here comes my boss” (http://web.humoruniv.com/prog/ohmygod/ohmygod.html), provided by popular site Humor University, is a simple route to avoid being caught slacking: It returns the...
S. Korea tops OECD members for wireless Internet penetration

Jul 5, 2011

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- South Korea ranked first among advanced countries last year in terms of wireless high-speed Internet penetration, according to data by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday. South Korea was the leading country for wireless broadband subscriptions last year among the 34 OECD countries, with 89.8 per 100 people. The number of subscribers for ...
KT chief calls for an end to unlimited data plan

Jul 3, 2011

By Cho Ji-hyun A key executive at KT Corp. urged its rival mobile operator to take back its unlimited data usage scheme as telecom firms are struggling to deal with the rising ammount of data consumed by smart gadget owners. In a recent interview with The Korea Herald, Pyo Hyun-myung, president of mobile business unit at KT, said it is the best option for its rival company, which was the fir...
Mobile apps open up new channel to explore Korea

Jul 1, 2011

While a number of blogs and homepages are already offering a wide range of detailed information about Korea for visitors in English and other languages, the same segment is still in its infancy in the universe of mobile apps. But it’s too early to give up yet. Though the number of related apps for iPhone and iPad users is small, a dozen apps deserve attention. More importantly, the outlook appea...

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