Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday they have released smartphones that support the voice over Long-Term Evolution service. The release comes in line with the start of commercialized VoLTE services by local mobile carriers SK Telecom Co. and LG Uplus Corp. The VoLTE service, which offers voice calls through the fourth-generation LTE networks, enables clearer quality a...

Nexon, Blizzard will showcase new games at gamescom to open next week in Germany Gamescom, one of the world’s largest game premieres, is gearing up to feature new innovations in the sectors of mobile games, online games, console and PC games when it kicks off next Wednesday in Cologne, Germany. Scheduled for a five-day run, big name game firms like Nexon Europe, Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom, ...

Apple Inc. has removed its YouTube app from its latest beta version of iOS 6, with the Cupertino, Calif., company saying its license from Google has expired. The app will not be included in the next version of its mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Since the iPhone went on sale in 2007, Apple‘s YouTube app has come pre-installed on the comp...

Tech giant Samsung Electronics may release its Android tablet PC, Galaxy Note 10.1, in U.S. markets in the middle of this month. The speculation came after American tech and electronics website CNET unveiled a recent press invitation issued by Samsung Electronics at New York’s Lincoln Center on Aug. 15. In the invitation, the main graphic outlines a product that closely matches the specificatio...

Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, will introduce a new, free Web-based email portal under its Outlook brand and phase out Hotmail over time as it seeks to draw users from Google Inc.’s Gmail. A preview of the new service went online today and Hotmail probably will be phased out in the next year, said Brian Hall, a general manager in Microsoft’s Windows group, in an interview. ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. told jurors that its products are not copycats of Apple Inc’s iPhone but rather an example of legitimate American-style competition from the South Korean company. Lawyers for both tech giants faced off on Tuesday for opening statements in the highly anticipated U.S. patent trial, where Apple has accused Samsung of stealing iPhone features like scrolling and multi-tou...

U.S.-based firm joins hands with SK Planet to get business going in Korea Tapjoy, a San Francisco-based mobile advertising firm, said Tuesday it is putting its focus on the Korean market, claiming it is the company’s biggest after its home turf. Mihir Shah, president and chief executive of Tapjoy, said Korea is a special market due to its infrastructure and connectivity as well as its penetrati...

The popularity of Diablo 3, one of the major online role-playing games in South Korea, has nosedived on the game rankings here, according to GameNote, a local website offering online game news. The latest ranking table released by GameNote on Aug. 1 showed that Diablo 3 has plummeted to the 11th place, which is eight steps down from the 3rd as recorded a week earlier. Diablo 3 was one of the mo...

New Zealand developers said they have created a video game that will help young people overcome depression. SPARX, developed by the University of Auckland and Metia Interactive, is a role-playing game designed to teach teenagers how to cope with depression. “You can deal with mental health problems in a way that doesn’t have to be deadly serious,” said project leader Sally Merry in an interview...