Tag archive: Seoul

Wine lovers have Napa Valley. Fashionistas have Paris. And Elvis diehards have Graceland. Devotees visit them to sample the finest, see the latest in the industry, and soak in the history of the greats. But where should geeks book their tickets to when it's time to get out of the cube and pursue their own niche interests abroad? We found out where. Whether you want to stock your gadget pile, express your fandom with a visit to your… Read More

Asia Pacific Systems (AP Systems, President Jung Ki-ro) held a commencement ceremony for its geostationary satellite mobile service on April 6, in their office building at Gasan-dong, Seoul. The service is the first commercial service in Korea using a geosynchronous high earth orbit satellite. An AP Systems’ satellite phone costs 924,000 won (US$701.30), and using 50 minutes in a month costs 80,000 won (US$60.50), which is the… Read More

This last week I’ve been traveling throughout Japan and switching between the HTC Advantage I normally carry and the new HTC Touch Diamond that recently was released in Europe and will soon come to the US. Overall I’m impressed with this phone, but have realized that for me a touchscreen phone that doesn’t have a keyboard for email is simply too painful to use whether it is this new HTC product or the ever-popular… Read More

Last January, Sharp updated its LCD TV with a mammoth unveiling of 20 new sets, including new X-series that feature a slimmed-down bezel, offer a 15,000:1 contrast ratio, and 120 Hz refresh rates. When they were announced, Sharp said the X-series would be available with an optional wireless HD technology that would let users stream uncompressed HD content directly to the televisions, making for neat, cable-free installations. Now, Amimon has… Read More

In a move that's been expected for some weeks, Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee resigned his position at South Korea's largest corporation following an indictment last week on fraud and tax evasion charges. Also stepping down are Samsung vice chairman Lee Hak-soo also announced his resignation, along with that of the chairman's son, Lee Jae-yong, also a Samsung executive. "We, including myself, have caused troubles to… Read More

Folks who think price competition is starting to heat up amongst LCD manufacturers might be well-advised to sit back and wait a few years. Just a day after Sony announced a deal with rival Sharp to buy a one-third stake in Sharp's new $3.5 billion LCD manufacturing facility, reports have Sony and Samsung getting together to build a separate LCD manufacturing facility of their own. The companies already have a joint… Read More

A 33-year-old Korean man was found dead in his quarry workplace 85 miles north of Seoul, and is believed to have been killed by an exploding cell phone battery, according to reports carried by the BBC.   The phone had been in his shirt pocket. When found, the battery had reportedly melted, and his lungs and heart had been punctured.   Dr. Kim Hun from Chungbuk National University Hospital told Kookmin Ilbo,   "There were… Read More

Message monitoring and security firm Postini has released some figures about the state of messaging and email on the Internet for September 2006…and the news is more depressing than ever. Postini monitors email and other communications for over 36,000 organizations, examining more than one billion messages a day in case they're viruses, worms, phishing attacks, or plain-old spam. These days, it's more accurate to… Read More

Samsung today upped the stakes in the flash memory chip market as it unveiled a 16Gigabit (Gb) NAND memory device. NAND is used commonly in memory cards which find their way into mobile devices. Samsung said that the 16 Gb design was achieved by the industry’s first mass production use of 50-nanometer technology. The development of this flash memory will make it easier to store large data amounts on small portable devices. In an… Read More

“In a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, “Hynix acknowledged conspiring with other companies to fix prices of widely used computer memory products between April 1999 and June 2002,” according to the report. The plea had been expected. As reported in March, Hynix (Seoul) set aside 347 billion won ($338.7 million) in provisions related to the ongoing price-fixing investigation in the DRAM… Read More

More than 200 university programmers, from San Diego to Seoul, and from Wisconsin to Warsaw, have earned the right to compete at the most prestigious programming competition of its kind. Seventy-eight teams of three students each will take part in the 29th Annual World Finals of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), April 3 – 7, 2005, in Shanghai, China. And, for the first… Read More

From the press release: With peak usage time for Xbox Live between 7:30 and 9 p.m., this thrill-seeking throng is showing that they prefer to play TV. As evidence of online gameplay's mass appeal and growing importance in the digital entertainment landscape, Xbox Live reached the million-member mark three times faster than other subscriber-based entertainment services such as Home Box Office Inc., America Online Inc. and TiVo Inc.… Read More

South Korea's LG Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday its joint venture with Philips Electronics NV  of the Netherlands planned to list within five months in New York and Seoul. LG.Philips LCD will use the IPO proceeds to pay for new factories, after saying last month it would invest $21 billion over the next 10 years to capitalise on booming demand for big screen TVs. The venture generated a net profit of 398 million euros ($473… Read More

The suit filed Thursday in Tokyo District Court is the latest development in a legal battle between Samsung and Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu over patents for plasma displays. The panels are increasingly in demand around the world, along with liquid crystal displays, for flat-panel TVs, and are expected to be an even bigger market in coming years. Thursday's move by Samsung Japan Corp., a trading company in Tokyo that's… Read More

Using innovative homegrown technologies, LG Electronics (LGE) outpaced the size  of the 71-inch PDP TV (previously the world's largest) that it had recently unveiled in July 2003, but the new PDP-TV is larger by five inches, thereby breaking its own record in only three months. In particular, LGE is set to kick off its latest product in the Korea  Electronics Show to be held in COEX Center in Seoul, starting October 8. … Read More