The Korea Herald

‘Mobile ads are the future’

Jul 25, 2012

Semantic Rep’s CEO says firm in talks with U.S. company for M&A, alliance From newspapers, television to the Internet, the birth of new media has introduced novel ways for advertisers to market brands and products over the years. The Internet, for instance, has offered new ad solutions such as Web banners and search advertising. The emergence of smart devices and Long Term Evolution is about t...
Apple‘s ‘Mountain Lion’ has been released

Jul 25, 2012

Apple's new mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' has been released on Wednesday. When Apple releases its quarterly earnings report at the end of the business day Tuesday, Mac users can also anticipate the official release of the upgraded operating system, dubbed Mountain Lion. “We’re thrilled with record sales of 17 million iPads in the June quarter,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. “We’ve also just updated the e...
Galaxy Tab ranked No. 2 tablet PC in China

Jul 24, 2012

HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Tab claimed the No. 2 position among tablet PCs in China but trailed far behind its archrival Apple Inc.’s iPad, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the poll by market researcher Searchina Shanghai Co., the Galaxy Tab gained 16.6 points in terms of consumer preference, ranking second among 10 tablet PCs manufactured by multinational and ...
‘Pooq still needs more work’

Jul 24, 2012

Network, copyright differences remain for online content platform Pooq, a media platform formed by Contents Alliance Platform, was officially launched on Monday in Korea, with over 5,000 users already subscribing to its inexpensive service. But company officials said that more work needs to be done before it can become a global platform where overseas users can access and watch a variety of TV ...
Galaxy Note II to have bigger screen

Jul 24, 2012

The Galaxy Note II, a follow-up to the Galaxy Note of Samsung Electronics Co., will feature a 5.5-inch display, according to a report. Boy Genius Report, a U.S. weblog specializing in technology, said on Monday that Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note II at its press conference slated for Aug. 15. BGR said that Samsung will replace the original Galaxy Note’s 5.3 inch display with a larger Super ...
KT starts test service for world’s first VoLTE

Jul 23, 2012

KT, Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, said Monday that it has launched a pilot service of Voice over Long Term Evolution for the first time in the world. Some 300 workers and college students will be given the chance to test KT’s high-definition VoLTE in Korea. The concept of HD VoLTE is similar to Voice over Internet Protocol telephone service, which uses Internet broadband lines to trans...
Korea's high-speed wireless Internet penetration tops 100 percent

Jul 22, 2012

South Korea's high-speed wireless Internet penetration rate has topped the 100 percent mark for the first time among member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Sunday. The penetration rate of high-speed wireless Internet service in South Korea amounted to 100.6 percent as of the end of last year, the highest among the 34 members of the Par...
LG Electronics to release limited edition ‘king-size’ smart TV

Jul 20, 2012

LG Electronics plans to release a limited edition of its new ultra-definition, 3-D light-emitting diode smart television from July 20 to Aug. 20. Korea’s second largest consumer electronics company said that it will introduce the 84-inch LED TV model named 84LM9600, which is slightly bigger than the standard 2-meter-long king mattress. Targeting the premium TV market, LG’s ultra-definition LED ...
Samsung asks to restrict Apple references to Jobs at patent trial

Jul 20, 2012

Samsung Electronics asked a federal judge to restrict references by Apple Inc.’s lawyers to the company’s late founder Steve Jobs at a jury trial scheduled for July 30 over mobile-device patents. Harold McElhinny, a lawyer for Apple, told U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, Wednesday that he plans to show jurors two slides of Jobs during opening statements in the case. The slid...
LG Display, SNU join hands for next-generation displays

Jul 20, 2012

LG Display, Korea’s second-biggest display panel maker, has formed a partnership with Seoul National University for the research and development of next-generation display technology. The company said that the two sides will establish the LGD-SNU Cooperation Center within the university’s Research Institute of Advanced Materials to push forward in making Korea the “Mecca” of the world’s leading ...
PC DRAM price fall to curb SK Hynix earnings: report

Jul 19, 2012

HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, will see its earnings restrained by weakening prices of dynamic random-access memory used in manufacturing PCs, a report said Thursday. Macquarie said in the report that it is downgrading its rating on SK hynix by one notch to “neutral” from “buy,” saying the company’s operating profit will be affected by the d...
KT to sell copper cables to focus on faster network operations

Jul 19, 2012

KT plans to sell its old copper cables that used to be the main telecommunication lines for telephones and the Internet in the 1990s. With the emergence of smarter devices and demand for faster data, copper cables have gradually been replaced by fiber-optic cables, which are lighter and transmit data faster with greater bandwidth. KT said Thursday that it will sell over 26,000 tons of copper ca...
KCC establishes TV app innovation center

Jul 19, 2012

The Korea Communications Commission said Thursday that it has set up a center aimed at supporting developers to create applications for smart TVs. The country’s communications watchdog established the support center in southern Seoul with leading tech and content companies such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and CJ HelloVision. The KCC said the center aims to support and encourage colle...
‘Economy’ of on-line game resembles real-life

Jul 19, 2012

Malicious rumors have caused the cost of materials to skyrocket and momentarily frozen the markets. Some materials are 100 times more expensive than they were a few months ago. This is not happening in Zimbabwe, where hyperinflation has run rampant, but in popular online games in Korea. Real-money trading in South Korea took off in the late 1990s with online game Lineage. Ten years later, the p...
Microsoft: Windows 8 will go on sale Oct. 26

Jul 19, 2012

Microsoft says Windows 8 will go on sale Oct. 26. The upgrade to its operating system is designed to work better with touch screens and on tablet computers. Microsoft announced the date in a blog post and at its annual sales meeting Wednesday. The software company had said earlier that Windows 8 would go on sale in October. Microsoft is releasing the software as a downloadable upgrade that day ...