Apple unveils thinner and lighter iPhone 5

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an image of the iPhone 5 during an Apple event in San Francisco, Wednesday. (AP-Yonhap)For the first time, the iPhone is growing even as it slims down. After sticking for five years to the same screen size, Apple on Wednesday revealed a new phone that's taller, with a bigger display.The iPhone 5 will go on sale in the U.S. and eight other countries next Friday

Sept. 13, 2012

No compromise with Apple, Samsung CEO says

Sales of Galaxy Note 2 projected to reach 20m units, Galaxy S3 to exceed 30m this yearSamsung Electronics has no intention to form a compromise with Apple in the near future over the ongoing patent lawsuit between the two sides involving smartphone technology and designs, a top Samsung executive said on Wednesday.“Though the two sides have held a series of negotiations on instruction from the court, it was in vain,” Samsung CEO Shin Jong-kyun of the mobile devices division told reporters.“It wil

Sept. 12, 2012

KT accessory turns phone into laptop

Say a salesman is on the road to meet a client who is hours away. Then he suddenly receives a call from his boss, who asks him to immediately take care of another client’s request that was made via email.But to do that, he may need to use a PC, meaning that he will have to lug around a laptop while he is out on call. KT’s new “spider” concept might make his job easier. KT’s Spider laptop is a dummy laptop with an 11.6-inch display screen that uses Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 LTE to play the b

Sept. 12, 2012

Zuckerberg eyes mobile after Facebook IPO flop

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he was steering the social network giant to focus more on mobile, saying it would help ease concerns after a “disappointing” stock market debut.“The performance of the stock has obviously been disappointing,” Zuckerberg said during an on-stage interview at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.Facebook has made a priority of following its more than 900 million members onto smartphones and tablet computers, tailoring s

Sept. 12, 2012

LTE handsets to flood local market ahead of iPhone 5 launch

Korea surpasses 10 million in LTE handset subscribesWith Apple slated to unveil the iPhone 5, three local handset makers are moving to rush the launch of their flagship smartphones in Korea ahead of the U.S.-based tech giant.Apple is featuring its new iPhone 5 on Sept. 12. However, it is not yet undecided when the Long Term Evolution model will be released in Korea.As the country has already surpassed the 10 million mark in terms of LTE subscribers, many are most likely to wait until the launch

Sept. 12, 2012

Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes

MOSCOW (AP) -- Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the “Jurassic Park” possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission‘s organizer said Tuesday.Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University said an international team of researchers had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow some 328 feet (100 meters) underground during a summer expedition in the northeastern province of

Sept. 12, 2012

Zuckerberg: Time to ‘double down’ on Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t enjoyed seeing his company‘s stock get pummeled on Wall Street this summer, but he is relishing the opportunity to prove his critics wrong.　 “I would rather be in a cycle where people underestimate us because I’d rather be underestimated,” Zuckerberg said Tuesday. “I think it gives us the latitude to go out and make some big bets.”　  Zuckerberg, 28, made his remarks before a standing-room-only audience at a tech conference in San Francisc

Sept. 12, 2012

Violent games can ease pain: study

 People may develop a higher tolerance toward pain by playing video games that involve players shooting and killing enemies, British scientists claimed on Friday.According to research by Keele University, playing “first-person shooter” games enabled players to endure pain for 65 percent longer than those who played a non-violent golf game.The 40 participants of the study were asked to play both the violent and non-violent games for 10 minutes and then to place a hand in ice-cold water to test pa

Sept. 10, 2012

U.S. firm looks for Korean opportunities with radiation exposure detection kit

Detecting radiation exposure is a time-consuming and expensive procedure, with conventional blood-based tests costing thousands of dollars and taking days before results come out.A small Los Angeles-based company hopes to revolutionize the process. According to CEO of DxTerity Diagnostics Bob Terbrueggen, the company’s DxDirect technology represents an opportunity to lower testing costs, and to improve the way the authorities deal with incidents where a large number of people are exposed to radi

Sept. 9, 2012

Local team finds protein linked to cancer spread

Discovery could open new possibilities for treatment methodsCancer is one of the most prevalent chronic health conditions in the world, and affects millions of people across the globe each year.According to one estimate, as many as 12.7 million people developed cancer in 2008 alone, and 7.6 million people are thought to have succumbed to cancer in that year. Korea had the world’s 24th-highest cancer frequency in 2008 for both sexes, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International. One

Sept. 9, 2012

Distance record for 'teleportation' set

(123rf)An international team of physicists says they have set a "teleportation" distance record, sending quantum information farther than ever before.Teleportation may bring to mind "Star Trek" and "Beam me up, Scotty," but in this case the researchers from Austria, Canada and Germany say they beamed the quantum state of a particle of light -- a photon -- from one island to another 89 miles away,

Sept. 9, 2012