As the automatic translation application “GenieTalk” has taken the No. 1 spot on AppStore’s free popular app chart just one day after launching, early adopters across the nation and overseas are busy posting reviews on social network services -- on both the good and the bad. “GenieTalk,” a free Korean-English translation app developed by the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institution...

Nearly 2 in 5 U.S. tablet owners read newspapers and/or magazines on their device, with 1 in 10 reading publications almost daily, a survey found. The poll by comScore for the three-month period ending August 2012 found 37.1 percent of tablet owners read a newspaper on their device at least once during the month, with 11.5 percent of tablet owners reading newspapers almost every day. Kindle Fir...

The Ministry of Knowledge Economy unveiled Wednesday a smartphone application that automatically translates Korean and English to help ease the language barrier. “GenieTalk” offers translation services through both speech recognition and text. The application is designed to help out those who face difficulties communicating when visiting Korea and Koreans who travel abroad. The app contains 270,...

LG Display announced the launch of an 84-inch ultra definition liquid-crystal display panel to be used for next-generation electronic bulletin boards on Wednesday. Claiming to be the world’s first to introduce such displays, the new 8 million pixel LCD panel is 3.5 times brighter and 8 times more vivid than existing electronic boards that use projectors, its officials said. This indicates that ...

Critics raise concerns over strategy of making devices in several sizes With the rising trend of bigger is better, are wireless gadgets getting too big for the global consumer market? That is the question that comes to mind as major electronics makers push mini versions of their already-released wireless gadgets. Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy S3 mini at an event in Germany last week....

South Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. and U.S. tech giant Google Inc. said Tuesday they plan to launch a new program incorporating the two companies‘ television services. The program, called “u+tv G,” will combine the No. 3 mobile carrier’s existing Internet Protocol (IPTV) service with the Android giant‘s “Google TV” service, the two companies said. By setting up a u+tv G set-top box, use...

Apple may announce a new Mac Mini when it unveils the iPad Mini, and a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro may also join them, websites are reporting. The new Mac Mini will come in three models, with two differentiated by processor and storage capacity and the third running as an OS X server, 9to5Mac reported. With the Mac Mini not having an upgrade since 2010, it‘s likely the new models with feature th...

KT, the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier, said Monday that it would design its products with a signature style to maximize its brand power. The move comes after KT’s outer packaging for home mobile devices won the prestigious Red Dot Design Best of the Best Award 2012 in the productivity sector. The mobile carrier used the word “product identity” to explain how a product becomes a unique ...

Apple, which has spent a fair amount of time in courts over copyright issues, says it will pay up rather than contest a claim it copied an iconic Swiss clock. Swiss railway operator SBB took the California company to task last month for allegedly copying its famously accurate rail station clocks for the design of iOS 6's Clock app. Rather than contest the allegation Apple has agreed to pay up a...

Apple Inc. is set to reveal a smaller, cheaper version of the iPad at an event on Oct. 23, according to several reports published Friday. The reports from Bloomberg News, Reuters and the AllThingsD blog are based on unnamed sources with ``familiar with the plans.'' Apple Inc. hasn't said anything about a smaller tablet, a concept company founder Steve Jobs derided two years ago. But company wat...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top smartphone maker, on Friday unveiled its Galaxy S3 mini phone, a compact version of the flagship Galaxy S3 device, to cater to consumers looking for a practical option. The 4-inch smartphone is powered by Jelly Bean, the latest version of the Android operating system, and runs on a dual-core processor, Samsung said in a press release, noting the device is...