... sent out invitations last month announcing an event in San Diego that would include a look at what’s new for Google’s Android, software used on mobile phones. The decision was not related to technica...between the two biggest makers of smartphones and tablets. Samsung filed the lawsuit against Apple’s U.K. retail unit on Friday, the same day it asked courts to ban sales of Apple’s new iPhone 4S in ...

... of monitoring.” Coming up with a world standard in measuring loss of soil which scientists can refer to could boost international efforts to tackle desertification, he said. The UNCCD is the world’s first and only legally binding convention created to address the problem of desertification. It was established in 1997 and has held its annual forum in the Americas, Europe and Africa. Changwon’s hosting, an initiative suggested by the Korea Forest Services, is a first for Asia. The organization has been facing difficulty in gathering international funding to combat desertification since it...

...music fans were starting to get used to the idea that music, and loads of it, could be free. Apple’s iTunes entered into that landscape with a concept that wasn’t exactly new: a system where you coul...to feel the effects of the illegal downloading era: The top-selling album of that year, Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory,” sold 4.8 million, down from 2000’s top-seller, ‘N Sync’s “No Strings Attached,” w...

...nics, international tech giant, and Koo is the third son of the LG Group founder and married to Lee’s sister. Koo is currently the chairman of the restaurant and food services provider Our Home. On i...ung chairman had financial interests in LKH Investment, but that he was not involved in the company’s day-to-day operations. The address specified on LKH Investment’s website is the location of an ap...

... were flat. The weak economy, along with gridlock in Washington and heightened concerns over Europe’s debt crisis, rattled financial markets. The August drop in borrowing was the largest since April ...ore willing to take on added debt because of the soaring value of their homes. The Federal Reserve’s borrowing report covers auto loans, student loans and credit cards. It excludes mortgages, home eq...

... day. Iger, 60, took the reins of The Walt Disney Co. in September 2005 after the tumultuous ouster of Michael Eisner following a shareholder revolt led by Roy Disney, the late nephew of the company’s founder. A former weatherman who rose through the ranks of ABC, Iger has orchestrated some of the company’s biggest acquisitions, including the $7.4 billion purchase of animated movie studio Pixar in 2006 and the $4.2 billion acquisition of comic book giant Marvel in 2009. Disney said its total sharehold...

...m South Korean society. The figure represents just a small fraction of the more than 22,000 North Korean defectors in South Korea. In June, Cho Myung-chul, a former economics professor at the North’s elite Kim Il-sung University, was appointed to lead a government body in charge of educating citizens on unification with North Korea. Cho is the first North Korean defector to become a senior gove...

CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) ― Michael Jackson’s three children helped 40,000 fans honor the late pop legend Saturday as the “Michael Forever” show in Wales overcame a troubled build up to end on a ...the US. Many fans were dressed in Jackson’s trademark top hat and red leather jacket while Jackson’s famous high-pitched “woo-hoo” reverberated around the arena and inside the stadium’s atrium. The ...

HONG KONG (AFP) ―Sotheby’s said Friday it had sold more than $410 million in luxury goods, wine, art and antiques in its autumn sale in Hong Kong, with wealthy Chinese collectors driving much of the ...mes. Sotheby’s Asia chief executive Kevin Ching said 2011 sales in Hong Kong had smashed last year’s results. “The very successful results achieved this season bring Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s 2011 aucti...

...rimmed glasses as he sat listening to speeches with his hands on the table in front of him. His hair was slicked back as usual but was obviously thinning, and he appeared at times to be tired. Jiang’s failure to appear at a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party’s founding in July sparked intense online speculation that he had died. While the rumors were suppressed on the mainland, they were widely reported in Hong Kong, the semiautonomous Chinese territory t...

...id the challenges thrown up by the upheaval in the book world would be a central theme at the world’s biggest gathering of industry movers and shakers. Buying and selling of rights to works has soare...there are lots of people with whom one has to talk.” He highlighted Cornelia Funke, one of Germany’s best-known children’s authors, whose book “Reckless” was written with a scriptwriter alongside fro...

German Chancellor Merkel spells out how to bolster European banks amid the bloc’s debt crisis BERLIN (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe’s banks should look first to raise money in t...gainst potential losses from the continent’s sovereign debt crisis. An upcoming summit of the bloc’s 27 leaders should send a “signal” regarding a coordinated recapitalization of Europe’s banking sec...

...nish a school project.” When asked about whether he would be targeting commercial opportunities, Mak said he was considering contacting Apple on copyright issues because his design is based on Apple’s own logo. Some merchandisers have reportedly used his logo for commemorative memorabilia for Jobs such as t-shirts and caps that are being sold on the Internet. “I will consider using any proceeds...