Tag archive: Kim

Although MMORPGS like World of Warcraft have enjoyed popularity in the North American market, Asia has long been the leading market for MMORPGs, with a dizzying variety of games and virtual worlds. Now Gala-net, a leader in bringing free-to-play online games to western markets via its gPotato site, has announced plans to bring the Korean fantasy MMORPG Aika to the North American market. Aika is published by Hanbitsoft in South Korea, and… Read More

Google might be one of the top players in the industry in many parts of the world, but in South Korea its market share can be fairly described as “tiny”—and South Korea is the one of the largest online markets in the world. So, in an effort to boost its profile, Google has made a deal to acquire Tatter and Company (TNC) for an undisclosed amount. Announcing the acquisition on his personal blog, TNC CEO Chang-Won Kim says… Read More

The SD Card Association has announced (PDF) it will enter the embedded storage market this November with an Embedded SD standard. The idea behind using SD for embedded storage is to simplify the design of things like mobile phones and portable media players by enabling manufacturers to use a single interface for both embedded and removable storage. The Embedded SD standard separated flash memory management from the host, establishes a… Read More

At the two-day S60 Summit in Barcelona, Samsung and Nokia formally announced the Samsung L870 smartphone, a new S60-based device with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a video-capable three megapixel camera, integrated FM receiver, EDGE/GPRS and HSDPA connectivity, and 50 MB of user memory with microSD expansion. But what sent eyebrows rising was not that the S60 ecosystem just bagged its 79th device—it's that the L870 will apparently… Read More

South Korean special prosecutors have announced that they have charged Samsung chairman Lee Kun-Hee with breach of trust and tax evasion. However, Lee will remain free pending trial, with authorities saying they won't be arresting him because it the disruptive impact that could have on the electronics giant. Lee, age 66, was charged with nine other Samsung executives, including vice chairman Lee Hak-Soo. All have admitted to most of… Read More

For the second time this year, a laptop battery by LG Chem malfunctioned on Thursday, melting down and destroying itself in an LG laptop. While no one suffered injuries, LG has voluntarily stopped selling the laptop model in question. The malfunction happened to a graduate student in South Korea. The laptop model, which LG has not identified, was sold only in South Korea and is no longer produced. Jik Soo Kim, a spokeman for LG… Read More

As much as some of us might dislike them, there's one undeniable advantage to hardware-based buttons and keys, whether they're dimples or keycaps or blisters or switches: most of the time, you can fee what you're doing. So if you've ever tried using a touchscreen-enabled phone or other portable device and thought to yourself, "Gosh, this is awkward, I can't feel what I'm doing!" then Samsung… Read More

We are saddened to report that James Kim, a father, husband and peer of ours in the technology journalism field has passed away at the too early of an age of 35-years-old. Kim and his family were on their way to a resort on the Oregon coast when they became lost on the backroads in the mountains. A massive search effort turned up Kim's wife and two children, but Kim himself had wandered off to find help for his family. A trail Kim left… Read More

Electronics giant Samsung, currently the only maker with a Blu-ray movie player actually one the U.S. market, will decide later this year whether it wants to launch a movie player compatible with both Blu-ray and HD DVD high-definition disk formats. At a briefing with reporters in Suwon, South Korea, assistant manager of Samsung's home platform products division Kim Du-Hyon said the company is already working on a drive which can… Read More

In an effort to reflect the company's shift towards the general consumer marketplace, chip-maker Intel Corporation is expected to formally launch a major re-branding effort at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, scrapping its 37 year-old logo (the company name with a lowered “e”) and limiting use of the phrase Intel Inside. Intel's new all-blue logo will feature an elliptical swirl around the… Read More

This full HD image quality TFT-LCD panel was developed at the company's new production complex in Tangjeong, Korea. The soon-to-be operational 7th-generation production facility uses glass substratesthat measure 1.87m x 2.20m. Samsung has made a series of breakthroughs in TFT-LCD technology ahead of the competition over the years. The company developed the first 40-inch model in August 2001, the first 46-inch panel in October 2002, the… Read More

Samsung's new driver IC generates color using an entirely new driving method called sub-pixel unit driving methodology. Contrary to existing color display methods that express color pixel by pixel, this new method creates color at the sub-pixel level representing more than two data lines from the same pixel. By composing a new pixel with the sub-pixel on the adjacent scanning line, 480*640 VGA resolution can be attained from a 240*640… Read More

A surge in buying by PC makers, among other issues, has supported the price rise, said Nam Hyung Kim, an analyst with iSuppli Corp. All of this has pushed spot prices to nearly double what they were a year earlier. Prices in the spot market for a popular type of memory chip, 256-megabit double data-rate memory, jumped 10.8 percent to $6.30, according to DRAMeXchange, an online memory marketplace. A year ago, prices were $3.33, said… Read More

In one case, the student, identified only by his surname Kim, received the equivalent of $8,600 from a 22-year-old woman who wanted her ex-boyfriend and his wife murdered, said Chung Dong-yul, a police investigator in the city of Daegu. Read the whole story at CNN.com.

The veteran Microsoft executive who headed the company's push into console video game software and is credited with launching hits like the PC favorite “Flight Simulator” and “Halo” for the Xbox has resigned, Microsoft said on Tuesday. Ed Fries, who joined Microsoft in 1985 as an intern, had headed the company's game studio since 1995 and was responsible for cementing key relationships with game software… Read More