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[Newsmaker] Galaxy Note 4 gets mixed response

Sept 4, 2014

The Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Electronics’ all-new smartphone-tablet hybrid unveiled at the 2014 IFA in Berlin, has better display with a faster processing speed than its predecessor.It is thin and light. It has an S-pen. What else?The phablet looks much like the Note 3, except that it has a metal frame without the stitches on the back cover. The Note 3’s stitch design received poor reviews last year when it hit the market.The Note 4 seemingly turned out to be much ado about nothing.Lee Don-joo, Sa
Former LG executive named Chang Sung CEO

Sept 4, 2014

Huh Young-hoHuh Young-ho, a former LG executive, has been named chief executive of Chang Sung, a metal materials manufacturer for the chip, shipbuilding and automotive industries, LG Innotek said Thursday.Huh had been with LG since 1977, beginning his career at LG Electronics, where he worked for 20 years in the company’s television manufacturing unit. He then became the CEO of LG Innotek in 2002, and spurred the development of indigenous IT materials of displays and optics.Huh’s major contribut
LG executive questioned after damaging Samsung products

Sept 4, 2014

An executive of LG Electronics Inc. was questioned by police in Germany for allegedly damaging products of rival Samsung Electronics Co. on purpose at a Berlin mall, corporate sources said Thursday.The executive, whose name was withheld, was reported to the local police by shop clerks at the SATURN Berlin Europa-Center after being spotted breaking the doors of four Samsung Crystal Blue washing machines. The police questioned him and other LG staff members at their hotel but closed the case afte
SK hynix develops fastest mobile chip

Sept 3, 2014

SK hynix’s wide IO2 mobile DRAMSK hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said Wednesday that it has successfully developed the industry’s fastest mobile dynamic access memory. The so-called wide input/output 2 DRAM is built on 20-nanometer class fabrication technology and can process 51.2 GB of data per second, making it four times faster than low-power DDR4.The chip manufacturer was able to boost the processing speed by packing 512 units of the I/O, a pathway for data transfer, in
Samsung Electronics on M&A spree

Sept 3, 2014

Korean tech giant seeks to lead IoT ecosystem through acquisitions
Tech giants brace for smart watch war

Sept 3, 2014

LG G Watch R. (LG Electronics)With the novelty for owning smartphones slowly waning, global tech heavyweights are scrambling to get a grip on the next big thing in wearable technology converged with health care services.Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are set for a fresh battle over smart watches, and will soon be joined by U.S. tech giant Apple later this year.LG and Samsung will officially unveil their new smart watches with innovative designs at IFA, the world’s leading trade show for
Phone carriers call for EU rules to hit Facebook and Google

Sept 1, 2014

Vodafone Group Plc and Telefonica SA used a technology conference in Spain today to call for the European Union to focus less on new rules for phone companies and more on Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. to reduce their dominance. The carriers are battling so-called network neutrality proposals, championed by Internet companies, that they say will hurt business and discourage new products such as driverless cars. The proposals are meant to prevent carriers from blocking access to some websites or s
LG Display opens Guangzhou factory

Sept 1, 2014

Display maker in talks with suppliers to develop QD displays
3rd time’s a charm for MS Surface?

Aug 29, 2014

New hybrid device likely to face low sales, identity crisis, analysts say
Uber Korea to start trial run of expanded ride-sharing service

Aug 29, 2014

Uber Korea, the local affiliate of U.S.-based transportation network company Uber, said Friday it would start a trial operation of an expanded ride-sharing service in Seoul, a move that the South Korean government immediately ruled as illegal.Uber’s latest business move follows a run-in with the Seoul city government, which said last month that the company’s existing cab-booking service was illegal and that it may ban the service.Uber said it would launch an UberX app, which can be downloaded by
Daum to launch North Korean map service

Aug 29, 2014

A map service that provides views of North Korea’s streets and buildings will be launched by a South Korean Internet portal for the first time in the country on Friday as part of efforts to disclose what has been secretly guarded information to the private sector, a state-run geographic institute said.The National Geographic Information Institute said the map, which covers North Korea’s entire territory, will begin operation through Daum Communications, the South’s second-largest online portal,
Samsung denies child labour at Chinese supplier

Aug 29, 2014

South Korea's Samsung Electronics has refuted fresh allegations by a labour protection watchdog that one of its suppliers in China hired child workers.New York-based China Labor Watch (CLW) claimed in a report Thursday that Samsung supplier HEG Technology had hired people under the age of 16 at its facility in Huizhou, China.The report said the factory, where components for Lenovo are also built, had hired new workers, and neglected to check their identification.The youngest worker was found to
Young mobile game makers see stock value grow

Aug 28, 2014

A number of young entrepreneurs in their 30s and 40s in South Korea’s mobile gaming industry are getting richer after hitting the jackpot with hit games.James Song, the founder and CEO of Gamevil, which is known for its game “Air Penguin,” saw his share value increase the most among mobile game developers, rising almost 200 percent to 234 billion won ($230 million) as of last week.Song, 38, has a 26.41 percent stake in Gamevil, which hit 136,000 won per share last Friday from about 45,000 won in
U.S. court denies Apple’s injunction on Samsung devices

Aug 28, 2014

Samsung Electronics won a small but meaningful battle Wednesday after a U.S. court dismissed Apple Inc.’s bid to ban sales of its products in the United States.Judge Lucy H. Koh, a U.S. district judge in San Jose, California, rejected an injunction filed by the iPhone maker to block sales of nine Samsung smartphone lines, including the Galaxy S3, for infringing its patented technologies.The court decision came after a U.S. federal jury concluded in May that Samsung and Apple had infringed each o
LG Innotek develops rare earth-free motor

Aug 28, 2014

LG Innotek said Thursday that it had developed an electric motor for automotive dual-clutch transmission systems that does not need rare earth minerals.This was part of LG’s efforts to reduce its reliance on rare earths from China such as neodymium and dysprosium, magnetic elements used in DCT motors, to reduce the impact from the large fluctuations in their prices.A number of auto parts makers have been seeking to develop rare earth-free motors as China controls over 90 percent of the world’s r