South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said that it will focus on smart and 3-D TV sales in the Middle East in order to strengthen its dominant presence in the large emerging market. The company said it aims to aggressively market its latest high-end TV sets and expand cooperative tie-ups with content suppliers to solidify its status as the No. 1 smart electronics product supplier in th...

Apple scheduled an announcement Monday on plans for its huge cash balance, estimated to be at least $97 billion from sales of its hugely successful gadgets like the iPad and iPhone. An Apple statement said chief executive Tim Cook and chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer would hold a conference call at 6:00 am (1300 GMT) "to announce the outcome of the company's discussions concerning its c...

South Korean scientists said Sunday they have discovered an enzyme capable of suppressing growth of both solid tumors and blood cancers, opening up the possibility of treating the potentially fatal disease. A research team led by An Sung-kwan, a microbial engineering professor at Seoul’s Konkuk University, said the Mulan E3 ligase effectively deals with the Akt protein, kinase which plays a key ...

Blizzard Entertainment announced Sunday that its global release of the firm’s popular action role-playing online game, Diablo 3, will take place on May 15. Mike Morhaime, chief executive and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, told local media that he felt Korea’s strong response following the announcement of Diablo 3 release date and that it is in the final development stage for better game p...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The new iPad went on sale on Friday with Apple fans lining up from Sydney to San Francisco to snap up the latest model of the hot-selling tablet computer. Buyers in Asia, Europe and the United States praised the eye-poppingly sharp display on the new iPad but a device which is otherwise short on new technology failed to bring out the crowds seen at previous Apple product la...

CHICAGO (AP) _ An artist admitted to taking shortcuts in crafting an often harrowing tale about Apple Inc.'s operations in China after the veracity of his one-man theatrical show was challenged by a public radio program that had based a broadcast on his work. But writer Mike Daisey said he stands by his monologue and called what he does theater, and not journalism. ``It uses a combination of fa...

Apple Inc.'s stock touched $600 for the first time, the day before the company's latest iPad goes on sale. The stock reached $600.01 just after the market opened. It lost those gains and closed down $4.02, or 0.7 percent, at $585.56. Apple is the world's most valuable company, with a market capitalization of nearly $555 billion. It topped $500 billion for the first time in late February, a mark...

HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― NCsoft Corp., a leading online game developer in South Korea, will likely see its sales in China rise sharply this year largely thanks to its new partnership with a Chinese distributor, Goldman Sachs said Wednesday. NCsoft currently distributes its flagship massively multiplayer online role-playing games ― Lineage I, Lineage II and Aion ― in China through a contract wit...

South Korea’s plan to install smart meters in half the country’s households by 2016 could cut electricity consumption equivalent to the cost of one nuclear power plant. “We want to make the utility industry intelligent and efficient,” said Choi Kyu-chong, director of the Smart Grid & Electricity Market Division of the Knowledge Economy Ministry. South Korea expects it will be able to save the co...

South Korea’s market for online or electronic-learning (e-learning) systems rose sharply last year with more than half of the population aged over three saying they have used such educational aids, the government said Tuesday. Combined sales by the country’s service operators rose 9.2 percent from a year earlier to about 2.45 trillion won ($2.19 billion) in 2011, according to the Ministry of Kno...

Apple said that shipments of its new iPad to customers who order it online may take two to three weeks but that the tablet would still be available in stores on Friday. Apple, which has set March 16 as the launch date for all sales of the third-generation iPad, said online pre-orders of the device had been going on since March 7. However, a notice seen Monday on the Apple website for the new iP...