Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of memory chips, liquid crystal display (LCD) panels and TVs, estimated Thursday that its first-quarter operating profit fell 34.2 percent from a year earlier as weak demand hurt its LCD and tablet businesses. Samsung estimated its operating income for the January-March period at 2.9 trillion won (US$2.67 billion), compared with 4.41 trillion wo...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Larry Page has the vision, passion and intelligence that Google Inc. needs in its next leader. Yet as he becomes CEO Monday, the Google co-founder must prove that his aloofness, rebellious streak and affinity for pursuing wacky ideas won't alienate investors and lead the company astray. He's taking over amid emerging threats from rapidly growing rivals and more vigilant reg...

Korea’s leading English daily integrates English news and education for the first time in the nation with its news app for Apple’s iPhone users. The Korea Herald news app is the fastest way to get updated with real-time news and the smartest way to enhance one’s English level. It features useful, substantial English education contents in the e-study section. It provides short video lectures, aud...

Amid the flooded mobile application market, already awash with new creative programs, another app has been introduced -- to help parents better understand their children. The “Woteva” (slang for “whatever”) app, expected to be officially available by summer, will provide users with definitions of teenagers’ slang, reported the Daily Mail. Due to the Internet and the use of text messages, youngs...

LG Display Co., the world's second-largest maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, said Monday that it has decided to accept an apology from a Samsung executive who insulted LG engineers in a public event. The company said it has received a letter of apology from Kim Hyun-sik, vice president of Samsung's visual display business, regretting his use of a swear word to insult engineers at the...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Add ``Facebook depression'' to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. Researchers disagree on whether it's simply an extension of depression some kids feel in other circumstances, or a distinct condition linked with using the online site. But there ...

Apple has been fiercely criticized for approving the “gay conversion” application which offers guidance on how a homosexual can convert to heterosexuality. The “gay cure” application, which can be used on Apple’s handheld devices, was created by a religious organization, Exodus International. According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, the organization believes in teaching “freedom from homosexuali...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top memory chipmaker, said Thursday that it has begun mass production of a new type of mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that packs denser memory in a slimmer package. Earlier this month, Samsung started mass producing the 4-gigabit, low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM based on 30-nanometer class technology, the company said in a statement. S...

South Koreans now spend more time online and on mobile phones than five years ago, a survey said Wednesday, the latest sign that the Internet has become a daily necessity for many people in one of the world's most wired countries. South Koreans surf the Internet for an average of 37 minutes during weekdays, up 25 minutes from 2005, according to the findings of a research institute of KBS, a majo...

Apple Inc. said Wednesday that it will roll out the iPad 2 tablet computer in South Korea next month amid worries that high U.S. demand and component shortage may delay overseas shipments. Apple will release the iPad 2 in 25 countries, including France and Germany, this Friday and in Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore next month, the company said in a press release. "We're experiencing amazin...