Luxembourg is looking for investment from Korean tech companies interested in the European online game market. “In the past, Luxembourg was known as a financial center, but now it’s turning more and more into an ICT (information, communication and technology) center,” said Romain Fouarge, information communications and technology director for Korea and Japan at the Luxembourg Ministry of Economy...

Samsung Electronics Co. welcomed Saturday a U.S. court decision that turned down Apple Inc.'s request for a preliminary injunction against its mobile devices, a major victory for the Korean firm in a series of high-stakes global legal battles against the iPhone maker. The ruling, delivered by a U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, cited that Apple failed to convince that allowing sales o...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them. Amid a broad outcry, Sen. Al Franken is calling for an investigation. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the software's maker, Carrier IQ Inc. of Mountain View, ...

Apple Inc. won a one-week extension to a ban on Samsung Electronics Co. releasing its latest tablet computer in Australia. High Court Justice Dyson Heydon extended a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Dec. 9, when the court will consider Apple’s request for permission to appeal a lower court ruling that ordered the ban lifted. The Australian dispute is part of a battle between the com...

Professional social networking service LinkedIn Corp. said Thursday it has started a Korean language service to lure the country's Internet users. LinkedIn's entry into South Korea comes as overseas social networking services such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have gained ground here following a rapid growth of smartphone users. Long hours of Internet use and a widespread broadband penetrat...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports. An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the U.S. and Japan. The initial index only covers a small fraction of the great indoors, but Google Inc. is hoping that will change as more owners...

Australia's aviation safety watchdog said Tuesday it was investigating after an Apple iPhone apparently began glowing red and emitting smoke after a flight to Sydney last week. Australian carrier Regional Express (Rex) said a passenger's mobile "started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow" after the plane touched down from the city of Lismore on Friday. "We a...

Mobile messenger Kakao Talk is the most frequently used Android app in South Korea, Nielsen said on Monday. The survey by Nielsen, an insights and analytics provider, showed that 92.8 percent of Android-based smartphone users here used Kakao Talk, developed by a Korean firm, at least once in the Aug-Sept. period. Coming behind were Google Android Market (88.6 percent), Google Map (53.3 percent)...

Cyworld, once a social networking phenomenon in South Korea before losing ground to Facebook and Twitter, vowed to make a comeback with its redesigned global service which could fill a niche rivals have yet to exploit: users’ desire for self-expression. Earlier this month, Cyworld launched a test version of its revamped Cyworld social networking service for international users, making a second e...

Samsung Electronics Co. sold more than 300,000 units of smartphones running on long-term evolution networks, the high-speed wireless data service, in about one month of their debut, according to industry data released Friday. Since sales began on Oct. 27, Samsung’s Galaxy S2 LTE smartphone accounted for around half of South Korea’s burgeoning LTE phone market that is estimated at 600,000 units, ...

Facebook has allied with Taiwan's HTC to build a customized smartphone powered by Google's Android mobile operating system, according to technology blog All Things Digital. The project, code named "Buffy," is aimed at making a handset tailored for the California-based social networking platform, according to the blog, which is owned by Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The device...