BARCELONA, Spain ― LG Electronics and China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier, tested the Time Division-Long Term Evolution technology on its Optimus G at the Mobile World Congress on Tuesday.The local electronics manufacturer said that it has joined the effort pushed by China Mobile, which had about 703 million subscribers as of November of last year. “Time Division” refers to receiving and transmitting channels on the same frequency band.“The smartphone business in China will be based

Greater pool of handset makers joins competition this year

BARCELONA, Spain -- Samsung heir apparent Lee Jay-yong visited the world’s biggest mobile trade show for the first time in three years and met with top executives of Korean telecoms upon his arrival.Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and the only son of chairman Lee Kun-hee, said that he has meetings lined up with 30 global mobile carriers on Monday and Tuesday on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress. “My schedule is fully booked,” he told reporters. “I don’t even have 30 minutes of

Samsung, LG, SKT and KT participate in world’s biggest mobile event

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U.S. Internet portal Yahoo Inc. has revamped its main page, highlighting news of interest in a bid to attract more visitors and better compete with rival search engines.The makeover is led by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who took the reins in July 2012 after 13 years at Google, the most visited site in the U.S. last year and the company’s archrival.While providing expanded news content, Yahoo now offers customizable content modules to help users choose content that suits their tastes. “Whether you a

Controversy over the appointment of Kim Jeong-hoon as the minister of future creation and science is growing as opposition lawmakers are increasingly questioning his nationality and patriotism.Kim’s strong track record as an entrepreneur and engineer with a rich education background, was not enough for the opposition Democratic United Party, which argued that it was against the law to appoint someone who has foreign citizenship.It also raised concerns about Kim’s loyalties, pointing out that he

More than 1 in 3 North American smartphone owners use a made-in-Korea device, according to Strategy Analytics, a U.S. market research firm.The company said Apple became the biggest seller of smartphones in North America with a 37.6 percent market share last year. But Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics continued to increase their sales in U.S. and Canada with market shares of 26.6 percent and 7.1 percent, respectively.Market analysts said the two Korean companies’ combined sales are expected

Someone casually pulls out his phone from his pocket during a coffee break in between a series of morning meetings, peers at it for a while before flipping open the lid to start talking into the mouthpiece.At the gesture, several of his colleagues look on in surprise ― shock even ― and they venture to ask him, “how in the world can you still be holding onto such a phone?”Flip phones are usually feature phones, also called second-generation or 2G phones running on the previous second-generation c