South Korea’s top two tech giants said Monday they will make full-fledged efforts to tap deeper into the Chinese market for Ultra HD TVs with customized product lineups for consumers there.Samsung Electronics Co. said it plans to expand its foothold in China on the back of its 40-, 48- and 55-inch flat UHD TVs, considered the most favored sizes by Chinese users.Around 36 UHD models will be released in the Chinese market, including the curved models that the company claims match the natural curva

South Korea’s telecom authorities may fine KT Corp. up to 100 million won ($93,559) for a recent data leak, industry sources said Monday, a punishment some consumer groups argue is too weak.An investigation found that a group of hackers was behind the data theft from KT, exposing personal information of some 9.81 million clients of the country’s second-largest mobile carrier.A team of government officials and online security specialists have been looking into the case after the Incheon Metropoli

South Korea's telecom authorities may fine KT Corp. up to 100 million won ($93,414) for a recent data leak, industry sources said Monday, a punishment some consumer groups argue is too weak.An investigation found that a group of hackers was behind the data theft from KT, exposing personal information of some 9.81 million clients of the country's second-largest mobile carrier.A team of government officials and online security specialists have been looking into the case after the Incheon Metropoli

South Korea’s two tech giants pledged Friday to ramp up efforts to expand sales this year through their premium product lineups, each pledging to overcome economic challenges from home and abroad.“Despite Samsung facing external challenges such as monetary uncertainties in the eurozone, the company posted an all-time high net profit and sales last year,” Samsung vice chairman Kwon Oh-hyun told shareholders.Kwon said economic uncertainties sparked by the tapering of U.S. quantitative easing is li

Shares of KT Corp. have been suffering a sharp decline as South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier braces for a triple whammy of increasingly negative earnings outlook, worsening business conditions and a loss of trust, analysts said Thursday.KT shares rebounded from the previous session’s dip, closing at 29,000 won ($27) on the Seoul bourse, up 2.47 percent. On Wednesday, KT hit a yearly low of 28,300 won.KT has been on a downward spiral since late last year when its former president stepped down ami

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. filed a patent for a new way of unlocking smartphones by freely drawing lines on screens, the country’s patent agency said Thursday.The world’s top smartphone maker said the new method is based on catching intersecting points of lines drawn on the screens, allowing users to set a wider choice of codes compared to Samsung’s current system of connecting designated circles.“The feature allows users to unlock (smartphones) in a more convenient way,” S

Japanese police have arrested an engineer who allegedly leaked Toshiba trade secrets to South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, reports said Thursday.Yoshitaka Sugita, 52, was taken into custody over allegations that he copied sensitive research data for Toshiba's NAND-type flash memory and handed it to the rival firm, major Japanese media including public broadcaster NHK reported.In 2008, Sugita was working for Toshiba partner SanDisk where he copied the sensitive data about Toshiba's key technology -

South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. filed a patent for a new way of unlocking smartphones by freely drawing lines on screens, the country's patent agency said Thursday.The world's top smartphone maker said the new method is based on catching intersecting points of lines drawn on the screens, allowing users to set a wider choice of codes compared to Samsung's current system of connecting designated circles."The feature allows users to unlock (smartphones) in a more convenient way," S

Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it is set to mass-produce what it claims is the most advanced version of a type of memory commonly used in PCs and mobile devices.The 4-gigabit double data rate-3 modules based on 20-nanometer class technology will be used in a wide range of computing applications. Manufacturing productivity for the chips is over 30 percent higher than that of the 25-nanometer DDR3, and double that of the 30-nanometer class versions, according to Samsung. DDR3 is a modern type of