• LG Uplus vows to lead 5G, IoT at new Yongsan office

    LG Uplus’ new headquarters building in Yongsan, central Seoul. LG Uplus said Sunday it will shore up efforts to develop fifth-generation network and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies at its new headquarters in Yongsan. “LG Uplus has changed from the past when it was busy keeping up with other carriers…

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  • Business

    Lenovo and Xiaomi Make New Friendship with Windows Phone

    Microsoft has announced that it will develop smart devices with help of its Chinese friends-smart phone makers Lenovo and Xiaomi. It has been confirmed that Lenovo and Xiaomi had made commitment to run the latest version of Windows operating system. Lenovo is planning to launch Windows-based smartphones this summer according…

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  • Business

    China Mobile’s Profit Fell 10% for Capital Expenditure of 4G Service in 2014

    The world’s largest mobile network-China Mobile, fell 10 per cent to Rmb109.3bn of its Profits in 2014, partly the result of an ambitious capital expenditure programme of its 4G service. China Mobile boasts 62 per cent of all mobile phone customers in China, its share of mobile data traffic is…

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  • Surrender to 80% piracy Microsoft Offer Windows10 free to Steady Chinese Market

    Microsoft has decided to offer hundreds of millions of Chinese pirated software users a free upgrade to legitimate copies of the Windows operating system. Piracy has plagued Microsoft’s business in China, where it is estimated that 80 per cent of PCs running Windows are using pirated software. Ironically that has…

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  • South East Asia

    [AJA Global Report] Convergence of Humanity and Technology

    The infiltration of technology into modern lifestyles can be viewed from two perspectives; the detractors may opine that it has become too important and we are overly dependent on technology, while those people who have embraced these technological incursions as part and parcel of daily living may view it as…

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  • East Asia

    [Asia Round-up] Life without Google: search engine alternatives

    Google processes 100bn search requests a month, or about 3.3bn per day. It’s become such a dominant force in web search that its name has become a verb: people don’t “look up something online,” they “google it.” But there are other commercial alternatives out there, even beyond Yahoo and Microsoft’s…

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  • West Asia

    Lee Kun-hee, The Man behind Revolutions

    First comments I read in Arabic,on the death of Samsung Electronics Chairman; Mr. Lee Kun-hee, showed that he was the man behind revolutions. If we speak of Arab region, it is clear how every house, and each citizen might be expressing easily their own experiences with some products with the…

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  • Samsung opens ‘innovation museum’

    SUWON ― Samsung Electronics said Monday that it will open the Samsung Innovation Museum (SIM) at its headquarters in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, on Thursday. The company said that the opening of the museum, the first of its kind in the industry, symbolizes the company’s tireless commitment to innovation. “The history…

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  • Korea – hackers’ safe haven

    One in five data theft cases in the world occur here This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the recent massive breach of cyber security. ― ED. Around 35 million of Korea’s population of 52 million population use mobile devices. But with this rising connectedness comes increased…

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  • ‘Apple should rather focus on innovation’

    A former Wall Street Journal reporter says that Apple should shift the focus of its business to “innovation” from patent disputes with Samsung Electronics. In a written interview with The Korea Times, Yukari Iwatani Kane said that Apple’s consistent claims that its design patents were copied by Samsung are rather…

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