Localization in foreign markets remains biggest challenge for global expansionKorea’s online game industry is increasing efforts to dive into overseas markets in a bid to seize bigger business opportunities in the Internet era.Well-known local online game publishers and developers, such as Neowiz Games, NEXON and Hangame, have said targeting foreign markets is a top priority for this year.“We have

HTC's new smartphone unveiled in Seoul on Friday (Yonhap News)        HTC Corp. said Friday it will release its new flagship smartphone in South Korea next week, hoping that the phone's movie streaming feature will help the Taiwanese firm gain ground.    SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest mobile phone carrier, will exclusively release the Sensation smartphone on May 25, said HTC's North Asia Pr

An undergraduate student of Bournemouth University in England has created a “symphony” of Twitter feeds, the Daily Telegraph reported. Music technology student Sam Harman used a computer program to turn Twitter posts into sounds by giving each character its own distinctive tone. As a computer reads each Tweet, it plays a sound. The result is a collection of sounds similar to a xylophone. “The syst

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome at Google Inc., speaks during a keynote address at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Google Inc.'s new Chromebook line of laptops, manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. and Acer Inc., will go on sale next month, furthering the company's push into computer hardware. (Bloomberg-Yonhap News)SAN FR

(Yonhap News)NEW YORK (AP) - Google Inc. unveiled its long-planned music service Tuesday, but it will likely need deals with the recording industry to reach its full potential.Called ``Music Beta by Google,'' the service lets users store their tunes remotely and access them from any compatible device, including mobile phones, tablets and computers. So far, it does not offer music downloads or song

Registrations for Hangeul domain names accepted from this month amid douThe nation’s top telecommunications regulator announced Tuesday that it will begin accepting registrations for Korean-letter domain names later this month.The Korea Communications Commission said that the Korea Internet and Security Agency will be in charge of the registration process and it will first collect the preferred do

Korea needs to create opportunities for growth by reinforcing link between research and FTAsThis is the 44th in a series of articles introducing the Korean government’s R&D policies. Researchers at the Science & Technology Policy Institute will explain Korea’s R&D initiatives aimed at addressing major socioeconomic problems facing the nation. ― Ed.The science and technology community is filled wit

(YouTube)Commenters have criticized the content of a YouTube video called “Baby And Dog Fight Over Food,” which shows a baby agitating a german shepherd by trying to steal its food.In the video, a baby repeatedly snatches the dog’s bowl while the animal is eating. Although the baby tries hard to keep the bowl, the dog reclaims its food with its front legs and concentrates on eating. Commenters rep

This combined photo shows the Chinese antique "Xiao You" (L) and "Angry Bird". (chinadaily.com.cn)For long, celebrity personators have been a favorite on TV. Such over-night fame now enters the Web age as Chinese netizens revel in an obscure antique's catapult into Internet sensation, simply because of its stunning resemblance to the red-hot Angry Birds. The owl-shaped container, dated at least 3,