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Yesterday, mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced the release of two new Android-based devices on the market in South Korea, namely the HTC Flyer 4G and EVO 4G+, both of which feature support for wireless carrier's KT 4G network. The company is offering 4G services in the country via the Wireless Broadban... |
24 June 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Today, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation made official a new Android-based mobile phone aimed at the market in South Korea, namely the HTC EVO 4G+.Previously leaked into the wild as the HTC Rider and tipped only recently as being set to land on shelves in as HTC EVO 4G+, the mobile phone is now present on... |
23 June 2011
15:31 GMT |
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One of the mobile phones that should arrive on the market in South Korea in the near future with Google's Android operating system on board is the previously leaked HTC Rider, which is supposedly set to land on shelves in the country under the name of HTC EVO 4G+.The mobile phone should sport features similar w... |
23 June 2011
04:04 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just confirmed that it managed to activate a number of over one million Galaxy S II smartphones on its homeland market after the release of this device in late April.Previously, the company announced that it had sold over 1 million units to carriers and retailers, and it s... |
10 June 2011
20:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is reportedly getting ready for the release of a new mobile phone powered by Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, one that might get launched on the company's homeland market.The new device is said to sport the model number SHV-E110S, and to... |
1 June 2011
14:11 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has unveiled today that it managed to sell a number of more than 2.34 million mobile phones on the market in its homeland country during the month of May.According to the leading handset vendor, this amount of sales would bring the total number of sales up by over ... |
1 June 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Galaxy S II, the flagship smartphone that South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung brought to the market about a month ago, managed to sell over 1 million units on the homeland market. This makes the Galaxy S II the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung's offering, as it left behind last year's high-end Gal... |
30 May 2011
02:14 GMT |
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This week should bring a new high-end smartphone on shelves in South Korea, namely the HTC Sensation, currently available only in a handful of markets around the world. On Wednesday, May 25th, the new flagship model should be released on shelves in the country via SK Telecom, the largest wireless carrier on the loca... |
23 May 2011
09:11 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung reportedly managed to sell a number of over 120,000 Samsung Galaxy S II units in its homeland market during the first three days of availability of the new device. The figure brings the number of Galaxy S II devices moved on the South Korean market up to over 300k, including l... |
5 May 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Google has gotten itself into trouble again in South Korea where it was already under investigation over the Street View service. Now the police raided Google offices over allegations that its AdMob mobile advertising product illegally collected location data. The concern is that AdMob collected location data from it... |
3 May 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy S II, the new flagship mobile phone the second largest handset vendor in the world, launched with Google's Android operating system on board, has reportedly registered over 200k pre-orders in the company's homeland market.
The South Korean company made the new device available for reserv... |
3 May 2011
02:22 GMT |
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On Friday, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has announced the launch of a new smartphone on its homeland market, namely the LG Optimus Big.The latest addition to the company's already popular Optimus series was announced as available in South Korea starting with April 28th, via wireless carrier LG... |
23 April 2011
00:31 GMT |
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South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched an investigation into a data breach at Hyundai Capital, the country's biggest lender, which affected around 420,000 consumers.The security incident was disclosed last week, when Hyundai Capital announced that a hacker managed to steal the names ... |
11 April 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy S II, the new flagship Android-based smartphone from the South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung should arrive on shelves in the company's mother country before the end of this month, if some of the latest reports on the matter are to be believed. The leading mobile phone maker already announced ... |
8 April 2011
14:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has just made official a new handset aimed at its home market, namely the Samsung Galaxy Neo (SHW-M220L). The new mobile phone did not receive a specific release date as of now, but it should land at wireless carrier LG U+ in the not too far future. No specific inf... |
4 April 2011
05:02 GMT |
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South Korea has taken recent DDoS attacks against governmental websites very seriously and plans to start work on strengthening defenses against such threats.Yonhap news agency reports that the Ministry of Public Administration and Security intends to place all city intranets and the country's entire governmenta... |
22 March 2011
14:57 GMT |
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Starting with next week, South Korean mobile phone users would have the possibility to purchase the latest Apple iPhone model via SK Telecom, the wireless carrier unveiled recently. Enthusiasts interested in acquiring a new iPhone 4 from the wireless operator can already pre-register via online and retail sales chan... |
9 March 2011
19:31 GMT |
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Almost thirty governmental and private South Korean websites were hit this weekend in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched with the help of a small botnet.The Presidential, Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry websites were targeted, along with those of many financial institutions, but the impact wa... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in South Korea will soon be able to purchase a new, high-end smartphone in the country, as Samsung and Google have just announced the availability of Nexus S on the local market.Nexus S was officially announced in late 2010 as the second Google phone, following the release of Nexus One in January ... |
3 March 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is expected to make the Windows Phone 7 platform available for more users around the world during the ongoing year, and some more info on the company's plans started to emerge. Apparently, Microsoft would plan on better pushing the OS to the Asian market in 2011, and South... |
23 February 2011
04:26 GMT |
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Wireless services provider SK Telecom, the largest carrier in Korea in terms of subscribers, has just announced plans to greatly increase its broadband capacity and data transfer speeds it offers to its customers through the deployment of a LTE (Long Term Evolution) in July 2011.According to the mobile phone carrier... |
10 February 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has announced the availability of a new smartphone for users in South Korea, namely the BlackBerry Torch, now on pre-order at SK Telecom in stylish charcoal, red and white colors.The new smartphone, the first BlackBerry ever to come to the market with a touchscreen disp... |
10 February 2011
12:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone carrier SK Telecom is expected to make available for purchase on its airwaves Motorola's first tablet PC to run under Google's Android operating system, namely the Motorola XOOM.The company should have the new device available on its network starting with April, and would be the o... |
10 February 2011
08:10 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that carbon nanotubes (CNT) can be successfully used to reduce the severity of the effects generally caused in the human brain by stroke. The investigators who conducted the new work say that such an adverse event causes an interruption in the supp... |
31 January 2011
01:56 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone users have now the possibility to purchase a new high-end device that runs under Google's Android operating system, namely the LG Optimus 2X. The new handset was already put on sale in the country, after being announced officially in late 2010 as the first smartphone in the world to pa... |
25 January 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Twitter has now added another language to the list of official translations, Korean. Users in South Korea will be able to access the site as well as the official mobile apps in their native language and use the local script. South Korea was chosen since the site has seen a huge growth in popularity there in the last ... |
19 January 2011
05:17 GMT |
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South Korea is struck once more with news that a gamer has died after an intense 12-hour playing session in one of its popular Internet parlors, similar to the Internet cafes from the West.
The 19 year old college student, identified only under the nickname of Moon, died after a 12-hour gaming session in the city ... |
30 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell has just announced that its Dell Streak tablet PC is set to become available for purchase in South Korea via wireless carrier KT. The Android-based device does not have an official price tag for the local market, nor a specific availability date, it seems, but it should all be announced in the ne... |
23 December 2010
16:11 GMT |
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The mobile market is advancing fast, maybe faster than some might have expected. One year ago, we had only one handset released with a 1GHz CPU on board, now we have one with a dual-core 1GHz processor inside, and also the first smartphone to pack DDR2 memory, the Pantech Vega X.This is an Android-based device launc... |
22 December 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Galaxy Tab, the first Android-based tablet PC from South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics, should be released on its homeland market on the network of another wireless carrier starting with next week, namely LG U+.
The 7-inch Android-based tablet PC was made available for purchase in South Korea seve... |
15 December 2010
02:07 GMT |
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An executive from Blizzard has stated that his company might soon take legal action against those Korean television stations that are broadcasting tournaments built around Starcraft, the real time strategy game series, without explicit approval from the developers.
The Korea Times newspaper quotes Paul Sams, who i... |
6 December 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer applauded the latest milestone of a delayed free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea. The two countries managed to reach a deal on revisions this weekend to the draft dating back to 2007, which thus far has failed to come into effect.... |
6 December 2010
03:27 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung seems to enjoy increasing popularity of its latest Android-based flagship devices, the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab, on the market in its homeland.Samsung Galaxy S, the company's direct competitor against the Apple iPhone, managed to sell a number of more than 2.3 million unit... |
2 December 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Scareware pushers have poisoned search results related to the North and South Korean cross-border clash at Yeonpyeong with malicious links.Earlier today, North Korea fired artillery shells that hit the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. The South returned fire with K-9 howitzers.After exchanging two rounds of shells ... |
23 November 2010
11:55 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, allowing the player to experience the covert ops conflicts between the United States and Russia during the era of the Cold War.Call of Duty knows its linear and the developers know that the only way to d... |
17 November 2010
18:41 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone users should soon have the possibility to try out a new smartphone from their local handset vendor Samsung, in the form of Wave II (SHW-M210S).The Samsung Wave II (SHW-M210S) is expected to make an appearance in the country on the airwaves of SKT, while running under the company's own ... |
15 November 2010
02:10 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has finally announced officially plans to make its Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet PC available for purchase in its homeland market. The slate is expected to land on the market in the near future, sporting model number SHW-M180S.At the same time, the leading handset vendor announced... |
4 November 2010
05:11 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung confirmed officially that it plans on making the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system available for the owners of a Galaxy S device in its home land starting with the next week. Samsung Galaxy S, the company's flagship Android smartphone for the ongoing year, was launched i... |
4 November 2010
02:44 GMT |
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On Monday, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced officially that it managed to sell a number of no less than 820,000 smartphones in its homeland market during the month of October. According to the leading handset vendor, the performance allowed it to account for around 43.2 percent market sh... |
2 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Korean officials claim that hackers from China stole classified documents from the country's defense and foreign affairs ministries earlier this year by infecting computers with malware.AFP cites a National Intelligence Service (NIS) spokesperson, according to whom, attackers sent targeted emails in which they i... |
15 October 2010
10:36 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced the launch of a new handset in its home land, namely the Samsung Galaxy K. The new smartphone is powered by Google's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system and should be released on KT's airwaves.The new mobile phone, sporting model number of SHW-M130K... |
11 October 2010
02:31 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone has recently managed to pass the 1 million sold units milestone on the market in South Korea at KT Corp., the local operator that inked a distribution agreement with the Cupertino-based company for the iconic device. The milestone was reached nine months after the handset became available for pur... |
22 September 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the launch of its BlackBerry Pearl 3G, the smallest BlackBerry smartphone yet, on the market in South Korea, on the airwaves of wireless carrier SK Telecom. The new device comes to the market with appealing features, as well as with impressive performan... |
15 September 2010
06:44 GMT |
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That didn't take long at all. After 70 days of availability on the South Korean market, the Samsung Galaxy S managed to top 1 million device sold, proving that it indeed is the fastest selling handset in the country.The Samsung Galaxy S device (SHW-M110S) has proved highly appealing on the market ever since its... |
1 September 2010
06:45 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone users might be fond of their local handset vendors, but it seems that the popularity of devices coming from abroad extends to the market in this country too, and that the new iPhone 4 model is set to prove one of the most popular devices in South Korea. The Apple iPhone 4 was made available... |
24 August 2010
06:38 GMT |
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A lawmaker has uncovered that 1,715 files containing South Korean military secrets, including war plans against North Korea, were stolen from infected Army-issued computers.Song Young-sun, a member of the South Korean parliament, who sits on the National Defense Committee, asked the Defense Ministry recently to relea... |
21 August 2010
07:24 GMT |
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After having launched their official Twitter page only last week, North Korea’s account was banned in South Korea because it reportedly contained illegal data, according to Seoul representatives.Considering the official North Korea website is Uriminzokkiri.com, when a Twitter account called @uriminzok was crea... |
20 August 2010
12:52 GMT |
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While Samsung Galaxy S is currently the fastest selling mobile phone in South Korea, Apple's iPhone 4 seems set to catch up. Made available for pre-order on Wednesday in the country, the high-end Apple device already registered impressive interest from users in South Korea, with over 130,000 pre-orders placed i... |
19 August 2010
05:03 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is readying the launch of a new Android-based device in its homeland this week, the Galaxy U (SHW-M130L). The new handset is expected to make it to the market on the airwaves of wireless carrier LG U+, while packing a nice range of features and capabilities, as its... |
19 August 2010
02:54 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has managed to sell an impressive number of Galaxy S devices in its homeland during the past two months. The total number of Android-based Galaxy S units sold in South Korea already reached 800,000, proving that the handset is one of the hottest mobile phones the company launc... |
18 August 2010
04:31 GMT |
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