• Samsung takes crucial win over Apple

    Samsung Electronics scored a critical win in its battle with Apple over intellectual property and design yet was still left nursing a bruised ego. In a ruling against Apple, which has been accusing its Korean rival of copying its smartphones and touch-screen tablets, Judge Colin Birss of the British High…

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    Diablo 3 popularity waning fast

    Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 has seen its popularity plummet due to “poor content.” “Diablo 3’s place is shaky,” said Kim Min-kyu, a cultural content professor at Ajou University over the phone, Monday. “It is hard to believe that it was made by the people who created World of Warcraft and…

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  • NHN taking lead in messenger games

    NHN is taking the lead in the messenger game market by releasing games via its mobile messenger service Line ahead of its competitors. The firm said Monday that its first game, Line Birzzle, has had over 2 million downloads a week after its release. NHN has opened a service platform…

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  • Galaxy S3 LTE phones to hit shelves Monday

    The long-term evolution (LTE) model of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 will be available nationwide from Monday. The Suwon-based firm announced Friday its highest quarterly operating profit as of yet of 6.7 trillion won thanks to global sales of the handsets. The three domestic mobile carriers _ SK Telecom, KT and…

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    Kakao Story tops Facebook

    Kakao Story has topped Facebook to dominate the mobile social network service (SNS) market in Korea only three months after its launch. According to a survey of 13.95 million smartphone users using Google’s Android Operating System (OS) released Thursday by market research agency Nielsen KoreanClick, Kakao Talks’ SNS held 49.1…

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  • Government may take legal action against Google

    The government is preparing to take additional legal action against Google to force the firm to improve its privacy policy, an agency responsible for privacy protection said Thursday. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) told The Korea Times that it would file further complaints against the Korean subsidiary of the…

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    LG seeks corporate overhaul for growth

    After laboring through a dismal 2011, things appear to be improving at LG Group. Chairman Koo Bon-moo has stressed that rebuilding efforts are ongoing as he pushes another round of business-lineup adjustments and an organizational shakeup. Earnings and profits at LG’s key business units, LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Innotek…

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    Blade & Soul beats Diablo 3

    NCsoft’s latest release Blade & Soul has kept its lead over Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 following the game’s commercialization last week. The massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) secured 17.16 percent of Internet cafe user occupancy compared to Diablo 3’s 15.64 percent on Wednesday, according to game research firm Gametrics…

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  • Falling euro forces Samsung into emergency mode

    Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it has shifted into emergency mode to better cope with the fallout from the deepening eurozone economic crisis. This is the first time in four years that the electronics giant has declared a need for “crisis management’’ since the company first adopted the scheme in…

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    Mobile messenger war in full swing

    Following the new trend of the popularity of smartphones, content providers are stepping up efforts to strengthen their mobile contents, especially in messenger services. The three most popular mobile messengers in Korea ― Kakao Talk, Line and My People ― are quickly evolving to provide more diverse services due to…

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