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Samsung wins U.K. Apple ruling over Galaxy tablet

Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn’t “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. The Galaxy tablet doesn’t infringe Apple’s registered design, Judge Colin Birss said in a ruling today in London. He said that consumers weren’t likely to get the two tablet computers mixed up. The Galaxy tablets “do

July 9, 2012

Sleeping tips for night-shift workers

It is 2.30 pm and time for Michaela Lins and Christine Langanke to get up and prepare for their night shift in a German hospital. The two nurses work through the night, from 8.30 in the evening to 6.15 the next morning, and they find the hours take it out of them."It grinds you down, particularly when you do a week of nights or early shifts," Lins says. Her last shift was a relatively quiet one, b

July 9, 2012

NASA Mars images 'next best thing to being there'

The U.S. space agency NASA has recently pieced together a panoramic view from the camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the "next best thing to being" on the Red Planet.The full-circle scene fuses together 817 images taken by the mast-mounted panoramic camera (Pancam) on the Opportunity over a four-month period, showing new rover tracks and an old impact crater.The panor

July 9, 2012

NASA Mars images 'next best thing to being there'

Study shows spaceflight may ‘slow aging’

A group of international researchers found that spaceflight may extend the lifespan of a certain type of microscopic worm, providing clues to better understand how to survive in space and opening up possibilities for deep-space exploration.A team of scientists led by Nathaniel Szewczyk from Nottingham University found that the metabolism of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) changes in space in order to "adapt to the new environment," according to a report on Science Daily.“We identified seven

July 9, 2012

Study shows spaceflight may ‘slow aging’

SNS feeds anxiety

A British survey found about half say social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter feed anxiety and make them feel inadequate. The Salford Business School at the University of Salford in Manchester, England, conducted the survey of almost 300 people for the non-profit Anxiety UK, and found of the 50 percent who said their lives had been altered for the worse said their confidence fell after com

July 9, 2012

Korea Herald launches Android application

The Korea Herald, the country’s top English-language newspaper in offline and online circulation, launched a new application for Android smartphones on Tuesday.The app offers the e-paper, real-time news and English language education content including video lectures by popular English teacher Lee Bo-young. The app also features translations of selected Korea Herald articles and audio narration.Potential subscribers can sample the service with a free trial before purchase.The app, created using t

July 8, 2012

Korea Herald launches Android application

U.S., Japanese firms tap ‘wearable computing’

A new IT platform called “wearable computing,” which allows users to perform computer functions via the use of high-tech products such as glasses, is drawing close attention in the global tech industry. These products are capable of integrating graphics and other sensory information, or computer-generated reality, directly into the eyes of users, creating an overlap between the “real” world and a “computer-generated” or virtual world. Google co-founder Sergey Brin displayed a type of augmented r

July 8, 2012

U.S. court rejects Samsung’s call for stay on Galaxy Tab ban

A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected Samsung Electronics Co.’s request to allow the sales of its tablet computer until its patent dispute with Apple Inc. is concluded, sources said Friday.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the injunction imposed by a lower California court remains binding and that the South Korean tech giant cannot sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country until its legal dispute with Apple is resolved.The District Court of Northern California on June 26 acc

July 8, 2012

Scientist: Aliens may be big jellyfish

A British space expert says alien life forms might be large jellyfish-like creatures with organs that ingest atmospheric chemicals for nutrition.Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who works for European space company Astrium, described her vision of what might have evolved on the Saturnian moon Titan for Science Month, a project by the TV channel Eden, the Belfast Telegraph reported. She also worked with an artist to visualize the aliens.She said she was inspired partly by studying ocean life forms.“Our imag

July 8, 2012

‘Irreplaceable’ dinosaur fossil destroyed

An “irreplaceable” dinosaur fossil destroyed at a dig in western Canada is the fourth fossil to be damaged in the last two months, a paleontologist says.The skeleton of a duck-billed Hadrosaur was discovered in Alberta June 15 by paleontologist Phil Bell and a team from the University of Alberta, CBC News reported.At that time, the fossil was partially uncovered by the team and then reburied so it could be removed from the site in mid-July.When Bell visited the site Thursday, he discovered the 3

July 8, 2012

Samsung to post record Q2 profit of W6.7 trillion

Mobile business continues to contribute to growth, analysts saySamsung Electronics, the world’s biggest chip and smartphone maker, is expected to post record earnings in the second quarter of this year.The company estimated that its operating profit will reach about 6.7 trillion won ($5.9 billion) in the months between April and June, up about 79 percent from 3.75 trillion won a year ago. It is likely to post sales of approximately 47 trillion won, up 19 percent from 39.4 trillion won, according

July 6, 2012

Samsung to post record Q2 profit of W6.7 trillion

Samsung Asia’s most valued tech brand

Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest chip and smartphone maker, has become Asian consumers’ most valued brand, surpassing long-time favorite Sony and Samsung’s closest smartphone rival Apple.Citing a survey of 4,800 people in 12 Asian countries by research firm Nielsen and magazine Campaign Asia-Pacific, U.S. broadcaster CNBC reported that Samsung Electronics has climbed to the top this year, from second place in branding last year. “The brand’s focus on high visibility marketing and adverti

July 6, 2012

A weekend to detox

Detox juices, stretching and medical check-ups can help cleanse organs, achieve mental clarity and perhaps even weight lossSay goodbye to our friends, samgyeopsal and soju, this weekend. If you constantly feel heavy, low and depressed, your body is probably sending you a signal that it wants to rid itself of all the toxins it has been accumulating. However, “how” is a big question.Often touted by celebrities, detox drinks or diet cleanses have risen in popularity. The “Lemon Detox Diet” is one e

July 6, 2012

Star pair orbits surprise astronomers

Astronomers using a British telescope in Hawaii say they've seen four pairs of stars, known as binaries, that orbit each other closer than was thought possible.While binary stars are common, believed to have formed close together and orbiting each other since birth, it was always thought that if binary stars form too close to each other, they would quickly merge into one single, bigger star.Observ

July 6, 2012

South Korea plans to resume whaling for research

South Korea plans to resume hunting whales for research purposes, officials said Thursday, drawing immediate protests from non-whaling nations and environment groups that suspect the plans may be a cover for commercial whaling.South Korean officials conveyed the plan to the International Whaling Commission during an IWC meeting this week in Panama, according to Seoul's Ministry for Food, Agricultu

July 6, 2012

SKT succeeds in testing new LTE-Advanced technology

SK Telecom, Korea’s biggest mobile carrier, has successfully tested a new technology for the development of its Long Term Evolution-Advanced, the next generation of 4G LTE.The company said Thursday that it has collaboratively demonstrated the enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination, or eICIC, alongside global communication chip maker Qualcomm and telecommunication equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks.EICIC, which helps to reduce interference between different layers of long-range and sho

July 5, 2012

LG consortium wins big order for solar project

LG Electronics further eyes solar projects for growthLG Electronics said that it has won a large order to supply its solar modules in a solar plant project in Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province.Korea’s second-largest consumer electronics company joined a consortium led by its affiliate LG CNS, a system integrator, and won a bid launched by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to construct a 10.9-megawatt solar power plant. LG CNS will oversee the construction of the plant, which is planned to be completed

July 5, 2012

LG consortium wins big order for solar project

Galaxy S3 LTE set on sale

Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will launch its flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone operating on the fourth-generation long-term evolution network in its home turf next week.The world’s top mobile phone maker said the LTE model will be available through all three local mobile carriers starting Monday, two weeks after the third-generation version of the latest Galaxy series phone was released locally.Samsung said the new model, powered by an LTE network and a quad-core processor, enables enhan

July 5, 2012

Athletes’ deaths in workouts prompt new guidelines

CHICAGO (AP) ― The most dangerous time for amateur athletes may not be during the heat of the game or even in rigorous practices. A total of 21 college football players have collapsed and died during conditioning workouts since 2000 - many on the first few days, when even the fittest players are often pushed too hard.There’s little regulation of these sessions, and coaches “just run willy-nilly” trying to make men out of boys, said athletic trainer Douglas Casa. “A lot of them are not focused on

July 5, 2012

Surgeon makes headway on lung cancer

PHILADELPHIA ― During a grueling operation early last year, when the intractable 5-pound tumor seemed to mock his skills, thoracic surgeon Joseph S. Friedberg felt buoyed by what he and his scrub-suited crew had already achieved.The University of Pennsylvania team battles pleural mesothelioma, a rare, ferocious, incurable type of lung cancer.Typically, patients die within a year of diagnosis. Yet more than two years after treatment at Penn, 27 out of 38 patients ― 71 percent ― were still alive,

July 5, 2012