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Apple asks German court to ban Galaxy Tab

Apple Inc. asked a Dusseldorf appeals court to ban sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy 10.1N tablet computer, a modified version of the device introduced after the original tablet was blocked in Germany.Samsung did not sufficiently change the device and is still trying to exploit the iPad’s reputation, said Matthias Koch, an Apple lawyer, at a hearing today on Apple’s bid to overturn a lower court decision in February denying the request.“Samsung added some loudspeakers and made the sides

June 6, 2012

Galaxy S3 to hit Chinese tech stores

Samsung also plans to release the latest smartphone in Korea, U.S. this monthChinese consumers will be able to get hold of Samsung Electronics’ new flagship smartphone “Galaxy S3” this weekend as Korea’s biggest tech firm secured mobile carrier deals with China’s three telecom giants.Samsung Electronics will offer TD-SCDMA 3G smartphones with China Mobile, CDMA phones with China Telecom and WCDMA with China Unicom, it said in a press release.“We have been closely collaborating with China’s mobil

June 6, 2012

iPad rules the tablets, Samsung tops Amazon, others: survey

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The Apple iPad extended its lead in the global market for tablet computers at the start of 2012 while Amazon’s Kindle Fire flamed out after a sizzling introduction, a survey showed Monday.The ABI Research survey showed overall global sales of media tablets amounted to 18.2 million in the first three months of the year, up 185 percent from a year earlier, but down 33 percent from the fourth quarter gift-giving season.Apple held 65 percent of the market with 11.8 million iPad sh

June 6, 2012

SK Telecom launches security services for cloud computing

SK Telecom has launched security services for cloud computing servers to guard against hacking and security breaches.The company said that through a strategic partnership with U.S.-based Juniper Networks, it developed a cost-efficient cloud security system, named the “T Cloud Biz.” Infosec, which is part of SK C&C, will operate the system.This the first time a telecom company in Korea has launched such “firewall” services for business-to-business cloud computing that utilize systematic and real-

June 6, 2012

Skeleton find points to how vampire legends were born

Italian archeologists discovered last month a skeleton believed to have been part of an exorcism ritual, providing clues to how vampire myths became popular around the world, the Daily Mail reported.The skeleton, found in a mass grave on the island of Lozzarretto Nuovo in Venice, was buried with a brick jammed in its jaws. It is believed that whoever buried the woman suspected her of being a vampire. Placing a brick in a vampire-suspect’s mouth was a tradition during the middle ages to ensure th

June 6, 2012

Skeleton find points to how vampire legends were born

Vietnamese catch 50-kg dragon fish

(Viet Nam News)Two people in southern Vinh Long Province caught a 1.7-meter long dragon fish weighing nearly 50 kilos in the Hau River, near the Ninh Kieu pier in Can Tho City on Wednesday.After catching the fish, they killed it and prepared it for sale, not thinking to preserve it as an ornamental trophy.The dragon fish was subsequently buried in Ba Chua Xu Temple yesterday, attracting large crow

June 6, 2012

Scientists: Dinosaurs lighter than thought

(AFP)British scientists say their new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs shows they were not as heavy as previously thought.University of Manchester biologists used lasers to determine the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of modern-day mammals, then applied the technique to a giant Brachiosaur skeleton in a Berlin museum.While previous esti

June 6, 2012

Scientists: Dinosaurs lighter than thought

Study: Childhood cancer survivors face new risks

Women treated with chest radiation for cancer when they were girls have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than previously thought, doctors warn.Even lower doses of radiation therapy posed a risk for survivors of childhood cancer _ something not known before, researchers found. That means more women might need to be screened beginning at age 25 for breast cancer.“We find that by age 50, approximately 30 percent of women treated with radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma‘’ as girls have develope

June 6, 2012

Study: Childhood cancer survivors face new risks

Mobile carriers, Kakao at odds over free mobile telephony service

Clear guidelines needed before Kakao’s service launch, say carriersTension between Korea’s leading mobile carriers and Kakao Talk, a mobile messenger tech firm, is growing as the latter will introduce a mobile telephone service in the second half of this year.Kakao Talk has begun offering a test version of its mobile Voice over Internet Protocol, named Voice Talk, to over 4 million worldwide users wishing to try its new service either on their iPhones or Android-based smartphones. Voice Talk wil

June 5, 2012

Apple denied Galaxy Tab ban

Apple Inc. was denied its renewed request for a ban on U.S. sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer while the case is still before a federal court of appeals.U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, said Monday that she does not have jurisdiction to issue a preliminary injunction because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington has not issued a mandate yet. The judge said Apple can renew its request once the court in Washington issue

June 5, 2012

2NE1 unveils new music video with Intel

Intel on Tuesday unveiled its new lineup of ultrabook devices powered by the third generation Intel Core processors as it aims to add a touch of innovation to the existing personal computer industry.Labeled as the second generation ultrabooks, a total of eight device manufacturers, including Samsung and LG Electronics as well as Sony, rolled out their upgraded PCs to consumers at an event in south

June 5, 2012

Predatory birds may have ended era of giant insects

U.S. scientists have found that the evolution of birds may have triggered the extinction of gigantic insects, according to a report on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz studied the fossil records dating back to Carboniferous period, and found that high oxygen levels of the time allowed species like dragonfly-like Meganisoptera to have wingspans of up to 71 centimeters around 300 million years ago. Further study showed that m

June 5, 2012

Predatory birds may have ended era of giant insects

Childhood neglect may increase skin cancer risk

Those who experience neglect or maltreatment during their childhood have a weaker immune level against certain types of cancer, a recent study suggests. Researchers at Ohio State University’s Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research studied 91 men and women with basal cell carcinoma, a common type of skin cancer, who previously had BCC tumors. The findings revealed that those who had experienced neglect or maltreatment in the past had a lower immune response to the tumors.“This means that for

June 5, 2012

Childhood neglect may increase skin cancer risk

iPad rules the tablets, Samsung tops Kindle: survey

The Apple iPad extended its lead in the global market for tablet computers at the start of 2012 while Amazon's Kindle Fire flamed out after a sizzling introduction, a survey showed Monday.The ABI Research survey showed overall global sales of media tablets amounted to 18.2 million in the first three months of the year, up 185 percent from a year earlier, but down 33 percent from the fourth quarter

June 5, 2012

South Africa backs out of partnership with Korea’s KT

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) ― South Africa’s fixed line operator Telkom announced that plans for a partnership with South Korea’s telecom operator KT will not go ahead after Pretoria decided not to back it.The two last year opened talks on a “strategic venture” that would have given KT Corporation a 20 percent stake in Telkom.Telkom said in a statement on Friday it had been informed by the Communications Minister Dina Pule that cabinet had this week “taken the decision not to support the transaction as p

June 4, 2012

S. Korean, Chinese firms encroach upon Taiwan’s LED makers’ turf

HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― Taiwan’s light-emitting diode industry is facing stiff competition from South Korean and Chinese rivals due to greater efforts by the two competitors to develop the sector, a Taiwanese industry report said Monday.Taiwan’s Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association said Taiwan should not overlook the rapid development of the LED industry in South Korea and China.“Mainland China has been expanding the scale of its industrial base with government subsidies and

June 4, 2012

After gory incidents, online 'zombie' talk grows

First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man's face. Then Maryland, a college student telling police he killed a man, then ate his heart and part of his brain.It was different in New Jersey, where a man stabbed himself 50 times and threw bits of his own intestines at police. They pepper-sprayed him, but he was not easily subdued.He was, people started saying, acting like a

June 4, 2012

‘Mad’ scientists find out why geniuses ‘go mad’

From the movie “A Beautiful Mind” to television drama “House M.D.,” the notion of the psychotic genius has always been popular to public audiences. However, scientists with a history of various mental conditions themselves have suggested that there is an actual correlation between being mentally ill and being smart, according to an article on the website Livescience.In the report, a group of panelists at the annual World Science Festival in New York on Thursday said that a previous study in 2010

June 4, 2012

‘Mad’ scientists find out why geniuses ‘go mad’

Daily dark chocolate lowers heart risk

(MCT)Dark chocolate lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, making it a cheap and tasty way to lower cardiovascular disease risk, Australian researchers say.Professor Christopher Reid, Dr. Alice Owen, Dr. Dianna Magliano and Ella Zomer, a doctoral student at Monash University, and Danny Liew of the University of Melbourne predicted daily dark chocolate consumption could prevent 70 non-fatal and 15

June 4, 2012

Korea’s third rocket launch attempt set for October

Despite two previous failures, Korea is gearing up to launch the country’s first rocket from its own territory in October, a top government official confirmed.Minister of Education, Science and Technology Lee Ju-ho said on Friday that the first stage of the KSLV-1 launch vehicle has been completed and will be delivered from Russia to Korea before the end of August. Lee made the comment after visiting Russia’s Khrunichev Space Center in Moscow, which designed and assembled the lower part of the s

June 3, 2012