All posts tagged "Smartphones"

  • LG Electronics Inc.'s invitation shows key features of the G4 smartphone, including an F1.8 aperture camera. (Photo courtesy of LG Electronics)
    LG showcases high-end camera for next flagship smartphone

    By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday its upcoming flagship smartphone, the G4, will have a high-powered camera that enables users to take clear and vivid photos...

    • Posted April 7, 2015
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  • "Digital Laundry" services are on the rise in South Korea in order to remove unwanted personal data from the internet (Yonhap)
    NIS: North Korea attempts to hack into South Koreans’ smartphones

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea attempted to hack into South Koreans’ smartphones by spreading malicious applications online, possibly infecting more than 20,000 smartphones, Seoul’s spy agency said Wednesday. The malicious applications, disguised as games, were spread on...

    • Posted October 28, 2014
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    [HOT LINKS] S. Korean government will take action on teenagers’ smartphone addiction

     The scene on the Seoul subway these days resembles any other modern underground network: throngs of high school students and commuter droids, hunched over, aloof to their surroundings, unable to stop playing with their handheld thingies....

    • Posted April 14, 2014
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    Samsung-Google agree to 10-year deal

    By Choi Kyong-ae Samsung Electronics and Google have signed a 10-year cross-licensing agreement on mobile technology patents in an extended partnership, the Korean company said Monday. On the same day, it reached a multi-year patent-sharing deal with...

    • Posted January 27, 2014
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  • Visitors look at a banner promoting the world’s first curved ultra high-definition (UHD) TV manufactured by Samsung Electronics at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Monday (KST). (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics)
    World’s biggest tech show kicks off

    Samsung unveils big tablet, LG releases wearable device By Kim Yoo-chul LAS VEGAS ― The 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (ICES) opened today in Las Vegas in the United States and will last through Jan. 10. According...

    • Posted January 6, 2014
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  • Vega Secret Note(left) and I-phone 5(right) with finger sensor (Courtesy of www.blogcdn.com)
    Wireless charging and iris recognition on smartphones could be available soon

    By Kim Su-mi Smart products are getting smarter and for some, more wearable. Experts say wireless charging and facial and iris recognition, which were previously considered to be dream technologies, may become available by next year. Body...

    • Posted December 27, 2013
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    A dangerous path

    Does the government want to control games or the Internet? By Kim Tong-hyung President Park Geun-hye’s party has been speechifying about tighter controls on video gaming habits. Prod a little more into its draft laws, however, and...

    • Posted November 25, 2013
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