The Korea Herald

Korean TV makers nab 50 pct of U.S. market share

Oct 31, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. clinched a combined 50 percent share of the U.S. TV market in the July-September period, an industry report showed Monday, thanks to strong demand for their premium TVs with 3D features and Web connectivity. It marked the first time the combined sales of Samsung and LG, the world's two largest TV makers, accounted for hal...
Number of smartphone users tops 20m in S. Korea

Oct 30, 2011

The number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea surpassed the 20 million mark last week, with nearly 40 percent of South Korean residents carrying such mobile devices, according to data from the country's telecom regulator released Sunday. South Korean smartphone subscribers numbered slightly more than 20 million as of Friday, including 10 million users with industry leader SK Telecom Co., 6...
Nokia unveils Windows smartphones to catch rivals

Oct 28, 2011

HELSINKI (AP) -- Nokia Corp. on Wednesday launched its long-awaited first Windows cellphones, hoping to claw back market share it has lost in the tough, top-end smartphone race to chief rivals, Apple Inc.'s iPhone, Samsung and Google's Android software. Multicoloured Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones are seen on display during their launch at the Nokia World event in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Oct. 2...
YouTube making deals for original content: WSJ

Oct 27, 2011

NEW YORK, Oct 26, 2011 (AFP) - YouTube is teaming up with media companies to produce original content in its latest bid to boost the amount of professional material on the video-sharing site, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Google-owned YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed partnerships with media companies and well-known personal...
Apple's new iPhone applies for gov't radio wave certificate

Oct 26, 2011

SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- Apple Inc. applied for a radio wave certificate at a South Korean national agency for its new iPhone 4S on Wednesday, signaling an imminent domestic launch of its latest smartphone. An official at the National Radio Search Agency, which oversees and certifies the radio wave compatibility of imported electronics products, confirmed that Apple submitted the newly minted ...
Google’s Android passes Apple to become smartphone application leader

Oct 25, 2011

Google Inc.’s Android operating system passed Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iOS as the most popular software platform for application downloads as consumers bought more Android smartphones. The Google platform accounted for 44 percent of all app downloads in the second quarter, eclipsing Apple’s 31 percent share, according to ABI Research. That was fueled by a 36 percent jump in Android phone shipments fr...
Jobs admired Zuckerberg for ‘not selling out’

Oct 24, 2011

Steve Jobs, who mentored Silicon Valley technology leaders in the months before he died, said he admired Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for “not selling out.” “We talk about social networks in the plural, but I don’t see anybody other than Facebook out there,” Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson in excerpts of an interview released online by “60 Minutes,” the CBS television show. “Jus...
No link to cancer in large-scale mobile phone study

Oct 21, 2011

PARIS (AFP) - The largest study of its kind found no link between long-term use of mobile phones and increased risk of brain tumours, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported on Friday. Danish researchers found no evidence of enhanced risk among more than 350,000 mobile-phone subscribers whose health was monitored over 18 years. (Yonhap News) Earlier research on the possible link between cel...
Samsung trumps Apple in Q3 smartphone sales

Oct 21, 2011

(Yonhap News) Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market by more than 10 million handsets during the third quarter of the year, industry data showed Friday. According to the data, Samsung Electronics sold about 27 million smartphones during the July-to-Sept. period, while Apple’s figure came in at about 17 million. While those in the industry had forecast that ...
Samsung denies decision on iPhone 4S suit

Oct 20, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said nothing had been decided over whether to file a preliminary injunction against Apple’s iPhone 4S in South Korea, amid intensifying speculation that a sales ban is likely. If implemented, such a ban would likely have a huge impact on the local handset market. The Korean media early Thursday reported that Samsung had decided to try and block Apple from sel...
US woman shocked by $200,000 cell phone bill

Oct 19, 2011

MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent mobile phone bill: she owed $201,000. It was no mistake. Celina Aarons has her two brothers on her plan. They are deaf and cannot speak, so the easiest way for them to communicate is by texting. Normally, that's not a problem. Aarons has a data plan that usually costs about $175. But her brothers spent two weeks in Canada and A...
Samsung heir, Apple chief discuss long-term parts cooperation

Oct 19, 2011

As Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. wage legal battles across the world, two of their top executives have met to discuss long-term parts cooperation and maintaining existing partnerships. (Yonhap News) Lee Jae-yong, chief operating officer (COO) of Samsung Electronics said Wednesday he had discussed long-term parts cooperation arrangements with Apple Inc.'s chief Tim Cook. The meeting to...
Samsung boosts smartphone clout

Oct 18, 2011

Tech giant to unveil Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong this Wednesday Samsung Electronics is moving to further expand its market share in smartphones, while continuing its patent fight against rival Apple Inc. On Wednesday Samsung is to unveil a new smartphone dubbed the “Galaxy Nexus,” which will run on the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, at an event in Hong Kong on the sidelines o...
Apple sells 4M-plus new iPhone models in 3 days

Oct 18, 2011

The Leon Guerrero family, on vacation from Dallas, show off their new Apple iPhone 4S phones they purchased at a Sprint store in San Francisco. Apple said Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, it sold more than 4 million units of the new iPhone model in three days. It's selling more than twice as fast as the previous model did when it launched last year. (AP-Yonhap News) NEW YORK (AP) _ Apple Inc. on Monday sa...
Mobile Web surfing gains momentum among Korean users

Oct 16, 2011

The red-hot boom of smartphones in South Korea is reshaping the way people surf the Web, heralding changes in the cyberspace in favor of greater mobile access rather than conventional media such as desktop and laptop computers. The proportion of those accessing major Korean portals and social networking sites using mobile devices has jumped by more than 50 percent, aided by the spread of smartph...