Unsuccessful ventures eat into No.1 mobile carrier’s value SK Telecom, the nation’s No.1 wireless service provider, has proved to be far from savvy when it comes to overseas ventures. After unsuccessfully knocking on the doors of numerous overseas markets including the U.S. and China for six years, the company was forced to call it a day. The failure was such that former SKT chief executive...

FULLERTON, California (AP) -- A U.S. computer repairman suspected of installing spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes was arrested Wednesday at his home, police said. This photo provided by the Fullerton (Calif.) Police Department on Wednesday shows Trevor Harwell. Police say Harwell, a Southern California computer r...

CUPERTINO, California (AP) -- Its ubiquitous products have already invaded the tech marketplace, and now Apple Inc. is seeking a fitting new Northern California home: a massive spaceship-like structure that will house an estimated 12,000 employees. Apple CEO Steve Jobs (AP-Yonhap News) Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at a Cupertino City Council meeting late Tuesday to announce p...

A 16-years-old German girl had the biggest birthday party ever in Hamburg with some 1,500 guests after she posted the invitation on Facebook. About 11 people had to be detained by the police, while one officer was injured due to the sheer size of the unexpected crowd. The birthday girl, known only by her given name Thessa, posted the invitation for her party on her Facebook page. However, she a...

KT, LG CNS lead Korean firms moving into what promises to be key industry With Apple Inc. officially announcing its dive into cloud computing, many local players believe the field is likely to become the next hottest trend of the mobile Internet era. Cloud computing technology enables people to access data and software, which are stored on servers and devices, through the Internet, making the i...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off Apple Inc.'s latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways to reshape technology. The highlight, as usual, came at the end of Jobs' presentation. He was onstage for less than 30 minutes during a nearly two-hour event that primarily featured his subordinates. ...

(YouTube) German magician Simon Pierro has given Internet users a taste of what Apple’s soon-to-released iOS 5 software might be like -- as part of his magic show. He created the magic performance with his iPad 2, playing on the upcoming iOS 5 release, social media news blog Mashable reported. The video clip of the show has attracted more than 300,000 clicks on YouTube as of June 6. He brings ...

(Bloomberg) Emotions can spread between users of social network sites, U.S. media reported. San Jose Mercury News said that emotions have long been known to be contagious and social media were a new means of transmission, citing the research by Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer. Kramer studied about 1 million English speakers and their friends in different countries on the social network ser...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Google said Wednesday that a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google security team engineering director Eric Grosse said in a blog post. The logo of internet se...

A man wait outside an Apple Store in Beijing, capital of China, May 6, 2011. (Xinhua-Younhap News) SAN FRANCISCO, May 31, 2011 (AFP) - Ailing chief executive Steve Jobs returns next week from sick leave to unveil Apple's latest generation of software, the firm announced Tuesday. The 56-year-old cancer survivor will present Apple's new operating system, dubbed "Lion," at a developers conference ...