Overheating of smartphones is increasingly becoming a problem as users worldwide stay connected longer and more frequently with high-speed fourth-generation Long Term Evolution services. In response, some of the top smartphone makers are expected to incorporate a high-precision water-cooled pipe technology into future devices, according to cooling module manufacturers.Samsung Electronics, Apple and HTC have recently shown interest in adopting the new cooling technology for their future models. T

South Korea's cell phone replacement rate is the highest among major OECD countries as local mobile carriers' fat subsidies and aggressive marketing lure customers to change their gadgets frequently, a report said Thursday.About 15 million South Koreans, or 28 percent of mobile phone users in the country, replace their handsets every year, according to the report compiled by DigiEco, a research unit of KT Corp.The mobile replacement rate is the highest among major OECD countries, the report said

“We feel that Dell Korea has not been able to communicate its product in the best way we could, and we want to start doing that,” said Kim Sung-jun, director of Dell Korea’s Enterprise Solutions Group.On Tuesday, Kim was introducing the company’s new network solutions, an area that despite taking up a large part of the portfolio ― over 50 percent ― of a firm that was once built around PCs. In fact, it was a start-up built on PCs, but today, Dell wants to be known as a top-notch solution provider

In an effort to respond to rapidly increasing Internet traffic, Cisco Systems Korea announced on Tuesday that it would release a new core routing system at the end of this year.In a report released in May, the U.S.-based networking equipment maker predicted that annual global IP traffic would surpass 1.4 zettabytes by the end of 2017 ― a threefold increase from the current traffic. A zettabyte stores 1 billion terabytes of data, or about 250 billion DVDs.In Korea, the IP traffic is expected to d

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said Tuesday that sales of its flagship smartphone, the Optimus G Pro, surpassed the 1 million mark nationwide in four months since its release. The phone is was fastest to reach the figure among its smartphone lineup.Sales of the Optimus G Pro broke 500,000 40 days after its launch, becoming LG Electronics’ fastest-selling smartphone.In May, the tech giant rolled out the smartphone in the U.S. and also released the full HD smartph

The government-run Korea Internet Security Agency on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with FireEye, a U.S.-based security company specializing in fighting cyber crimes, to help keep Korea’s Internet environment safer and free of attacks. “The two sides will be sharing solutions and other security information to jointly challenge cyber threats and malware that have become borderless crimes occurring all over the world,” said Lee Ki-joo, president of KISA. He stressed that it w

Dell Korea on Sunday said it will launch a new software-defined-network solution this week called the Dell “Active Fabric manager” which provides management and operational control of a converged network.The solution has already been unveiled globally, and is awaiting its launch in Korea. The Active Fabric Manager from Dell is said to be an industry-innovating software tool that automates tasks associated with planning, designing, building and monitoring fabrics to help cut infrastructure operat