South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom will export its artificial intelligence network solutions to India’s Bharti Airtel, marking the company’s biggest foreign project, it announced Wednesday. The two telecoms signed a strategic partnership to transfer AI technologies and solutions in San Francisco, where heads of global mobile carriers have gathered to attend the Mobile World Congress America. Under the partnership, SKT will apply its AI network solution to the nationwide telecommunication net

LG Electronics Co. said Wednesday that it plans to start accepting preorders for its new flagship smartphone, the V30, ahead of the official release slated for later this month.Customers who make preorders through the country's mobile phone operators from Thursday to next Wednesday will get the new smartphone starting Sept. 21, the consumer electronics giant said.The company finalized the price tag of the base 64 gigabyte V30 at 949,000 won ($841) and the 128 gigabyte version at 998,000 won.Late

Apple Inc. unveiled its most important new iPhone for years to take on growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co., Google and a host of Chinese smartphone makers.Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook showed off the iPhone X with an edge-to-edge screen during an event at the company’s new $5 billion headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday. Cook pronounced the name "ten," but it’s written as "X." The device, coming a decade after the original model, is Apple’s first major redesign since

Samsung SDI introduced its multipurpose batteries at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2017 held in Germany, the company said Tuesday. The newly invented battery modules provide extended driving ranges for electric vehicles.  (Samsung SDI)A premium electric vehicle with 20 modules can drive up to 700 kilometers, while an entry level electric vehicle with 10 to 12 modules can drive up to some 300 km, the company said. Automakers can change the number of modules to be installed in different car models. Sam

Note 8 preorders expected to hit 800,000

Preorders for Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest high-end smartphone, the Galaxy Note 8, reached the highest-ever among its Note line, its chief of mobile communications said Tuesday, expressing confidence that the premium device will be very successful.Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung Electronics, said the combined preorders for its Galaxy Note 8 in South Korea topped 650,000 units in just five days, far outpacing its predecessor.The figure dwarfed numbers for the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7, which

The chief of South Korea’s antitrust watchdog, who built his reputation as a “chaebol sniper,” is facing flak from local IT industry leaders after calling Naver founder Lee Hae-jin a figure who “lacks vision for the future,” unlike Apple founder Steve Jobs. 　　Fair Trade Commission Chairman Kim Sang-jo criticized the Naver founder, who he had recently met over the Korean internet giant’s listing on a new corporate watch list, in a recent interview with local newspaper Kookmin Ilbo. 　“A company of

Samsung is moving to strengthen its foundry business by adding a new 11-nanometer FinFET process technology and developing the industry’s first 7-nm process tech, the company announced Monday. By adding the 11-nm FinFET process, Samsung now has wider range of options for their next-generation products in terms of cost effectiveness. Also known as the 11 Lower Power Plus (11LPP) process, the cutting-edge tech delivers up to 15 percent higher performance and 10 percent chip area reduction with the

LG Electronics Inc.'s high-end organic light-emitting diode TV products have won positive responses from American and European consumer magazines, industry sources said Monday.The LG OLEDB7V model, a 65-inch OLED UHD TV, made by the South Korean home appliance giant has topped evaluations conducted by leading consumer magazines from nine European countries, including Italy-based Altroconsumo, Germany-based Stiftung Warentest, France-based Que Choisir and Spain-based OCU, they said. (Yonhap)The U

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest producer of memory chips and smartphones, may beat market expectations and post earnings growth in the third quarter despite earlier predictions of adjustments, market watchers said Sunday.Forecasts for a leveling off are centered on expectations that prices of both liquid-crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes will fall due to current market conditions. Observers had said Samsung could experience almost no growth because its second quarte

Price of V30 smartphone reportedly set at over 10 percent lower than Samsung, Apple phones

The US Food and Drug Administration’s first approval of a CAR-T cell therapy is raising market expectations for South Korean biotech ventures that are currently working to develop similar cellular immunotherapy drugs for cancer.　On Aug. 30, the US drug regulator approved Novartis’ Kymriah, a CAR-T cell therapy that genetically alters a patient’s own immune cells into a “living drug” that is trained to recognize and attack cancer cells in the blood.It is the first CAR-T -- short for chimeric anti

Sky Labs’s smart ring monitors pulse 24/7 to detect irregular heartbeat

Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday it has introduced a five-door refrigerator that provides easy access to on-the-go items.The H9000 fridge, updated from the more conventional two-door refrigerator, allows users instant access to drinks and condiments while letting them store large and fresh food items in an inner space, Samsung said on its website.  (Yonhap)"Perfect for frequently used items, this refrigerator lets you easily organize your food by type or family member," it said.The new fridge

Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday that preorders for its Galaxy Note 8 are setting new records in the United States.The world's largest manufacturer of smartphones said orders received since Aug. 24 are the highest tallied to date for its premium phablet Note line.The company did not disclose exact numbers citing policy but said it was buoyed by the consumer response after the debacle of the previous year's Note 7 that was taken off the shelves completely after some caught fire while being rec