Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a new tablet computer with a screen smaller than the iPad, sources told The Wall Street Journal. Officials at some of Apple's suppliers, who asked to remain anonymous, said the company has shown them designs for a device with a screen size of around 8 inches and said the company is qualifying suppliers for it. Apple's iPad 2 tablet ...

After more than a decade of trying to find a buyer, Hynix Semiconductor finally found a new owner in SK Telecom on Tuesday. With the board naming SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won the co-chief executive and SK Telecom president Ha Sung-min as the head of the board for Hynix, the buyout was completed. Chey, 52, chairman of the country’s No. 3 conglomerate, will officially direct the new Hynix, whic...

A Chicago man is celebrating Valentine's Day by giving his girlfriend one of the most precious gifts he has -- his kidney. Terry Lee said his girlfriend, Trisha Beckwith, was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Lupus after they had been dating for about four months and soon discovered her kidneys were not functioning, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported Tuesday. Lee said "the decision was eas...

(Yonhap News) -- KT Corp., South Korea’s top fixed-line operator, on Tuesday resumed services for Internet-enabled TVs produced by Samsung Electronics Co., four days after it restricted access to its high-speed network, the country's telecommunications watchdog said. The service was resumed at 5:30 p.m. under an agreement reached by the two parties, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said...

Apple is estimated to have sold more than 1 million iPad tablet computers in the Korean market, outpacing its local rival Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab by a wide margin. Apple’s iPad debuted here on Nov. 30, 2010 and its sequel iPad 2 was introduced on April 29 last year. About 700,000 units were sold last year alone, dominating the nascent tablet computer market here. Given that many early a...

South Korea’s communications regulator said Saturday it is checking to see if Google’s new privacy policy of combining all user information into a single trove violates local laws. A source at the Korea and Communications Commission said an investigation is underway to see if the measures being planned by the global search engine conflict with domestic private information protection and open use...

Apple's iPad 3 will make its debut in the first week of March, sources told AllThingsD. The tech news site reported Wednesday unnamed sources have said the first week of next month has been chosen by Apple for the launch event, probably at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, site of a number of the company's past events. John Paczkowski, writing for AllThingsD, said he believes "re...

Apple Inc., maker of the iPad and iPhone, for the second time failed to win a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N from a German court. The Dusseldorf Regional Court rejected the bid today in a case where Apple invoked a European design right. Apple last week lost a similar attempt over a technology patent in a Munich court. A Dusseldorf appeals court last week upheld Apple's ...

South Korean mobile carriers’ investment rose 20 percent in 2011 from a year earlier mainly on increased spending to build high-speed long-term evolution networks, the telecommunications watchdog said Thursday. The three mobile carriers including top player SK Telecom Co. spent 7.67 trillion won ($6.86 billion) on investment in 2011, compared with 6.4 trillion won a year earlier, according to th...