Google, HTC, Red Hat and Rackspace reportedly filed friends of the court briefs in support of Samsung Electronics on Monday urging the U.S. Federal court of Appeals to rule against Apple’s request for a sales ban on Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Galaxy Tab. The support from the Google-led group comes amid an ongoing mobile device patent infringement battle between Samsung and Apple. The briefs stated that companies shouldn’t be restricted because of what they see as a trivial feature tha

Namyang Dairy, one of Korea’s biggest dairy giants, is taking a turn for the worse following a nationwide uproar caused by one of its salesmen ranting and swearing at its distributor.Ever since an audio file that contained the conversation between Namyang’s salesperson and the distributor was exposed last week on the net, including YouTube, consumers have posted messages on their blogs or taken to the street holding placards urging the general public to stop buying its products ranging from milk

With South Korean citizens withdrawing from the inter-Korean industrial park in Gaeseong over the weekend, the Seoul government faces a double whammy of challenges of protecting business assets from the North’s possible seizure and meeting the companies’ demand for huge compensation for the suspension.　All of the 126 workers including one Chinese returned to the South in 63 vehicles on Saturday, a day after the government decided to withdraw all South Korean citizens from the park following Pyon

North Korea criticized South Korea on Sunday for "insulting" celebrations marking the birth of its founder, as the world keeps a close watch on what the North's next move will be after weeks of bellicose threats.   Monday will mark the birthday of the North's founder Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current leader Kim Jong-un. In recent weeks, the North has issued a torrent of warlike rhetoric following the latest U.N. sanctions that punished Pyongyang for conducting its third nuclear test.  

   North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public over the past two weeks, setting off speculation that he might be tempted to tone down fiery threats of provocations, according to sources and an analyst on Sunday.    Kim's absence from the public eye, judged by the North's choreographed media reports, was not unusual, but this month's disappearance from public view comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula as Pyongyang is expected to launch a mid-range ballistic

   North Korea has loaded two intermediate-range missiles onto mobile launchers and hidden them in an unidentified facility near the east coast, Seoul military sources said Friday, triggering speculation that the North is ready for an abrupt missile launch.   Earlier this week, the communist state had moved the "Musudan" medium-range missiles to its east coast, prompting the United States to send its advanced missile defense system to its base on the Pacific Ocean island of Guam.   South Korea h

[Herald Interview] 　WARRIOR BASE, Gyeonggi Province -- The U.S. government’s automatic spending cuts that took effect on March 1 have no impact on the Korea-U.S. alliance’s capability to deter North Korean aggression, a top U.S. commander here told The Korea Herald.　“There is no impact on the resources that I have to maintain my combat readiness,” said 8th U.S. Army (EUSA) Commander Lieut. Gen. John D. Johnson in an interview Friday on the sidelines of the allies’ annual Key Resolve command post

Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Francis, associating himself with the humble 13th-century Italian preacher who lived a life of poverty.Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of more than 100,000 people who packed a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square for the announcement, marveling that the cardinals needed to look to “the end of the earth” to

북한 대남기구인 조국평화통일위원회(조평통)는 8일 남북간 맺은 불가침 합의를 전면 폐기하고 남북직통전화 등 판문점 연락통로를 단절한다고 선언했다.조평통은 이날 발표한 성명에서 '키 리졸브' '독수리' 한미합동군사연습을  "우리에 대한 침략행위로 북남 사이의 불가침에 관한 합의를 전면적으로 뒤집어 엎는 파괴행위"라고 규정하고 "조선정전협정이 완전히 백지화되는 3월 11일 그 시각부터 북남 사이의 불가침에 관한 합의들도 전면 무효화될 것을 공식 선언한다"고 밝혔다.성명은 "적들이 우리의 영토, 우리의 영공, 우리의 영해를 한치라도 침범하고 한점의 불꽃이라도 튕긴다면 보복타격으로 무자비하게 징벌할 것"이라고 밝혀 북한이 서해통항질서라며 자신들의 영해선을 규정하고 있는 서해 북방한계선(NLL)  인근 에서 남북간 충돌 우려가 높아지고 있다.특히 김정은 국방위원회 제1위원장은 7일 2010년 연평도 포격 부대인 '무도영웅 방어대'와 '장재도 방어대'를 시찰해 이같은 우려를 키우고 있다.성명은

‘드림 걸’(Dream Girl)로 활동 중인 그룹 샤이니가 오는 8일 전 세계 팬들과 화상 채팅을 했다.소속사 SM엔터테인먼트는 샤이니가 이날 오후 1시부터 약 1시간 동안 인천공항 CGV에서 구글플러스의 화상 채팅 서비스 ‘행아웃’을 이용해 온라인 팬미팅을 했다고 전했다.샤이니는 팬들이 직접 만든 영상을 보며 이야기를 나누고 ‘드림 걸’ 관련 에피소드도 소개했다. 이 행사는 유튜브 에스엠타운 채널(www.youtube.com/smtown), A-Pop 채널(www.y outube.com/apop)을 통해 생중계됐다.샤이니는 9일 인도네시아 자카르타에서 열리는 KBS2 ‘뮤직뱅크 인 자카르타’에 참석한다. (코리아헤럴드)<관련 영문 기사>SHINee to hold video chat with foreign fansKorean pop idols SHINee had a video chat session with foreign fans.The online fan meeting was h