Apple Inc. plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the plans. 　The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple added to the iPad 2 earlier this year, along with an 8-megapixel camera, up from the 5-megapixel model in the iPhone 4, said the people, who

A Chinese billionaire, Wang Gongquan, announced that he is eloping with his mistress, on Chinese Social Networking Service Sino Weibo. The renowned investor’s online message to dump his wife to leave with his new love immediately went viral, The Telegraph reported. He posted the message saying, “I am giving up everything and eloping with Wang Qin. I feel ashamed and so am leaving without saying go

SK Communications said Tuesday it has launched a website that provides scholarship information involving 63 scholarship foundations and 110 different academic funding programs.The country’s online portal, which runs Cyworld, said it would also hold a briefing session in Seoul and Busan this week at two universities to explain how students could easily access information on various scholarships ava

SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- Eyesvision Co., a new entrant to the South Korean mobile phone market, said Sunday that it plans to launch prepaid wireless service through a leased network in the country next month.Eyesvision, which sells prepaid cards for international phone calls, said that it has agreed with SK Telecom Co. to lease the top mobile carrier's network and to roll out prepaid mobile phon

   LONDON (AP) _ Video game developer Sega said that its online database has been hacked, making it the latest in a string of games companies to be attacked.   The company sent an email to users of the Sega Pass system on Friday to warn them that email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords had been stolen from online database.   The email stressed that no financial information was at r

An alleged defect occurring in Apple Inc.’s iMac computers appears likely to lead to a class suit against the IT giant. According to industry sources, Apple Inc.’s iMac computers can develop blots on the monitor under certain circumstances.The company had at first provided free replacements for products that have developed the problem, but has since stopped such services, claiming that the cause o

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple has eased the subscription policies for its hot-selling iPad and iPhone in a move that should help newspaper and magazine publishers make more money from mobile devices.The change will make it easier for publishers to sell subscriptions for the devices outside Apple's online store.That's important to publishers because they have to give Apple 30 percent of the revenue f

NEW YORK (AP) -– About 200,000 Citibank credit card customers in North America have had their names, account numbers and email addresses stolen by hackers who broke into Citi's online account site.Citigroup Inc. said it discovered that account information for about 1 percent of its credit card customers had been viewed by hackers. Citi has more than 21 million credit card customers in North Americ

A woman from the Netherlands has engraved 152 of her online friends on her arm.While some criticize that friendships within the world-famous social network are just temporary, the woman proved that they can be far more permanent.After the tattoos were done, she posted a video clip on YouTube. In the video’s description, she wrote: “These are not all my friends. Just the people I care most about. I