The Korea Herald

LG Uplus launches social networking services

Jan 13, 2011

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea's smallest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it has made inroads into the fast-growing mobile social networking market in South Korea in an effort to find new revenue sources. The wireless and fixed-line operator introduced beta versions of two mobile-based social networking services last month that are available to all mobile phone users, it said in a statement. "W...
For U.S. minorities, new ‘digital divide’ seen

Jan 11, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections placing them on the wrong side of the ``digital divide.‘’ Today, as mobile technology puts computers in our poc...
Apple shuns CES but accessories a hit

Jan 11, 2011

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) – Apple snubbed the big Consumer Electronics Show but vendors of accessories for its hot devices turned out in force. Dozens of manufacturers of covers, stands, headsets, speakers and other items for the iPad, iPod and iPhone crammed an “iLounge” on the Las Vegas Conventer Center floor dedicated solely to Apple accessories. Scott Sternick, owner of a sports bars in New Y...
Apple’s absence to be felt at CES

Jan 4, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― What do you call it when you have 120,000 people and an elephant in the room? The International Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The elephant is Apple Inc. It won’t be at the show this year, but its tablet computer, the iPad, is the most important new product for an industry that needs to once again excite consumers. Sales of the iPad have been ...
Samsung ships more than 10 mln Galaxy S phones in 7 months

Jan 3, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest cell phone maker, said Monday that it has delivered more than 10 million Galaxy S phones to global mobile operators in about seven months of its debut. Samsung sold 4 million Galaxy S phones in North America, 2.5 million in Europe and 2 million on its home turf, South Korea, the company said in a statement. Samsung Galaxy S smartphone (Yonhap ...