Samsung Electronics Co., the world's leading maker of smartphones, said Thursday it has sold more than 10 million units of its Galaxy Note line-up in South Korea, proving its dominance on its home turf.The tech giant said the number of Galaxy Note smartphones sold in the country surpassed the milestone as of Thursday, apparently as the phablets successfully attracted users searching for a cross between a smartphone and a tablet computer.The phablets have been one of the industry's main attention

The size of the market for new trend-setting devices such as 3-D printers and ultra HD TVs is expected to grow twice as large in 2014, a report showed Tuesday, creating new possibilities in the saturated global electronics market.The market size for newcomers in the industry, such as wearable devices and Bluetooth speakers, is expected to grow 107 percent on-year this year to $6 billion, the report by the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association said.The world‘s consumer electronics market is expec

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, said it will delay opening a new factory in Arizona amid a slump in demand for personal-computer microprocessors, its main source of revenue. The completed Chandler plant, called Fab 42, hasn’t been filled with chipmaking gear, Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel, said in a telephone interview. The Santa Clara, California-based company decided to first upgrade the three other factories on the site because they can use existing equipment, he said. Intel, whic

Nest Labs isn’t just helping homeowners maintain a cozy environment. Google Inc.’s $3.2 billion acquisition of the digital-thermostat maker is also making venture-capital firms very comfortable. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the earliest backers of the company co-founded by former Apple executive Tony Fadell, invested $20 million in Nest beginning in 2010 and will see a return of about $400 million, a person with knowledge of the deal said. Shasta Ventures, another early Nest backer,

South Korea's No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it has agreed with a Chinese counterpart to share its know-hows on the long-term evolution network.SK Telecom said it will support China Telecom Corp. in establishing the network in areas covering Shanghai by sharing its technologies and experiences related to the LTE service.The company will also send its telecommunications experts to China under the deal.China approved the adaptation of the LTE network into the country in Decembe

U.S. mobile carrier AT&T Inc. is using Samsung’s smartphones to test-run the Voice over Long-Term Evolution service slated to be launched this year, industry sources said Monday. AT&T included Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones among the devices to be tested for the VoLTE service, the sources said, a move expected to open ways for the South Korean player to expand its foothold there.The VoLTE service, which offers voice calls through the fourth-generation LTE network, enables clearer quality and faste

PARIS (AFP) ― Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimeter to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday.The glacier “has started a phase of self-sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline,” said Gael Durand, a glaciologist with France’s Grenoble Alps University.Durand and an international team used three different models to forecast the glacier’s future based o

U.S. mobile carrier AT&T Inc. is using Samsung's smartphones to test-run the voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) service slated to be launched this year, industry sources said Monday.AT&T included Samsung's Galaxy smartphones among the devices to be tested for the VoLTE service, the sources said, a move expected to open ways for the South Korean player to expand its foothold there.The VoLTE service, which offers voice calls through the fourth-generation LTE network, enables clearer quality an

Samsung Electronics Co. was ranked fifth in the number of lawsuits filed against it by non-practicing entities last year, down two notches from 2012, as the so-called patent trolls shifted focused to U.S. mobile carriers, data showed Monday.In a sign of intensifying battle over copyright infringement, the South Korean tech giant had 38 cases filed against it in 2013, ranking fifth in the number of patent suits filed against tech firms by NPEs, the data by U.S.-based market researcher Patent Free

South Korea plans to introduce its first electric ships this year to help cut energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions of small fishing farms, the government said Monday.According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the government plans to provide 1.2 billion won ($1.13 million) to introduce up to 40 electric ships each costing about 50 million won.The ships, developed jointly by the ministry and the University of Ulsan, are only about one tenth as expensive to operate as fuel-powered vess