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    Samsung hopes China will help soften crisis

    Samsung Electronics is preparing to make China the new center of its activities, hoping that a strengthened position in the world’s fastest-growing economy will provide a cushion to absorb business rockiness in shell-shocked nations in the West. To explore new business opportunities Choi Gee-sung, the former Samsung Electronics CEO who…

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  • Korea prohibits trade of online game items

    Korea has decided to ban trade for commercial game items from the second half of this year as a measure aimed at encouraging students to not waste time. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced that it is planning to halt all virtual item trades with a new…

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  • IT-ScienceSK hynix establishes R&D center in Italy

    SK hynix establishes R&D center in Italy

    SK hynix announced Tuesday that it has established its first European research center by acquiring an Italy-based flash-type chip producer. This is the first time for the Korean chipmaker to buy a foreign firm in a decade. Early this year, Korea’s biggest mobile carrier SK Telecom purchased a controlling stake…

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    Competition To Solve Cube Puzzle Held In Seattle

    Kevin Hays, right, of Renton Wash., uses a computer console to solve the Groovik’s Cube, an electronic 15-foot Rubik’s Cube puzzle, Sunday, June 10, 2012, at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Hays was one of a team of three people who each controlled certain sides of the cube and…

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    Preparing for counterattack

    Mobile carriers bet on VoLTE against free Internet calls The nation’s three domestic mobile carriers are speeding up developments for voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) to commercialize it following the recent launch of Kakao Talks’ free Internet call service. The most popular mobile messenger service here launched its VoIP (voice…

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    LG Uplus embraces Kakao Talk

    LG Uplus, Korea’s smallest mobile carrier, announced Thursday that it will allow its users’ total access to Kakao Talk’s free Internet call services without any limitation or additional fees. The decision is likely to pressure SK Telecom and KT, who are currently restricting users from the service. Tension rose between…

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    Old dog’s new tricks

    NHN struggles to extend dominance to mobile Web NHN, the owner of Korea’s most widely used Web portal Naver, is ready to embrace mobile advertisements at a time when its key businesses are stalling. It remains uncertain whether the company’s new initiative will pay off but NHN is confident that…

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  • Mobile firms target middle-aged clients

    With the wide dissemination of smartphones, the age group of users is quickly diversifying to include the middle-aged. According to research by SK Planet, SK Telecom’s mobile platform subsidiary, the monthly data use of subscribers in their 50s has increased from 24 megabytes in January of 2011 to 112 megabytes…

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    Lengthy Address Makes Sleepy

    John Fiorenzo, center, catches a brief nap during the address to the graduates at his Boston College Commencement ceremony while a classmate yawns behind him at Alumni Stadium on the university’s campus in Boston, Monday, May 21, 2012. Fellow graduates Patrick Dingham, left, and Brandan Kirby, right, watch the stadium’s…

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  • Samsung may innovate chip-making process

    Samsung Electronics said Friday that it has developed and patented methods to use graphene in field-effect transistors (FETs) that may revolutionize computers. The breakthrough has been published in the online edition of Science Magazine and nine patents have been secured. Samsung said in a statement that devices with FETs could…

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