As tablet products are competing for large displays in earnest, Samsung Electronics has released its new 18.4-inch (46.73-cm) Galaxy View tablet that is larger than most laptop screens.According to industry sources on Nov. 26, the Galaxy View, which was introduced first in the U.S. early this month,

Samsung is reportedly reconsidering including a microSD card slot in its next-generation Galaxy S7 smartphone, according to a report from Italy-based information and technology news outlet HD Blog on Nov. 23 (local time).It said that there is a possibility that the microSD card slot will return on t

According to market research firm DRAMeXchange’s recent report, Samsung Electronics accounted for 31.5 percent of the global NAND flash market in the third quarter of this year, followed by Toshiba (20.5 percent), SanDisk (15.4 percent), Micron (13.8 percent), SK Hynix (10.9 percent) and Intel (7.8

Through coexistence with partner companies, LG Display has succeeded in the local production of the main components for curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, which are considered a new growth engine in the future.According to LG Display on Nov. 23, the company suggested Poongwon Precisi

Hyosung announced on Nov. 23 that it unveiled the world’s largest bulletproof panel using aramid fiber called Alkex at the Milipol Paris 2015, the international defense exhibition held in Paris, France, from Nov. 17 to 20.A bulletproof panel is produced by spraying resin on glass fibers, aramid fibe

Hyundai Mobis developed an Integrated Mobis Electronic Brake (iMEB) for eco-friendly vehicles, the second time in the world and first time in Korea. With the latest development, Hyundai Mobis, a late starter in the brake sector, has gained a foothold to jump up to be the leading auto part producer i

The Samsung Gear S2 smart watch is expected to be compatible with the Apple iPhone soon. In the smart watch market, which is dominated by the Apple Watch, the Gear S2 will accelerate the pursuit.According to industry sources on Nov. 19, the screen to prepare its Gear Manager app for the iPhone appea

During the Samsung Electronics 2015 Investors Forum at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Singapore on Nov. 16, Samsung Electronics announced that it will commercialize a biosensor processor in the first quarter of next year and roll out related products. For the system semiconductor business, which is consi

The National Cancer Center announced on Nov. 16 that a research team led by Drs. Kim Jeong-seon and Cho Yeong-ae of its Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Research proved that probiotics makes an improvement to blood lipid metabolism.Probiotics is a germ that enhances health insid

According to Samsung Electronics on Nov. 16, Kim Seong-joon, ophthalmologist and professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Seoul National University College of Medicine, and her research team conducted clinical tests to analyze the eye fatigue lessening effects of Samsung Electronics’ curved m

The era of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) based on LTE data networks will take its first step this month. Up until now, the VoLTE service has been available among subscribers of the same mobile service carriers only. But sooner or later, the VoLTE linked to other mobile service carriers will be commercializ

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced memory semiconductor technology, rewrote the non-memory semiconductor history this time. As the company rolled out a mobile application processor (AP) with its own custom designed central processing unit (CPU) for the first time in the domestic industr

A team led by Dr. Park Jong-kwan of the Ultra-Precision System Research Lab at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials announced on Nov. 10 that they developed a fundamental technology for a hybrid processing system that realizes ultra-precision and micro-fabrication processes, and successful

The government presented a blueprint for the promotion of the cloud computing sector such as elevating the number of cloud companies to 800 and the cloud use rate to 30 percent by 2018. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs fi

A team of Korean researchers has developed a technology to measure circulating tumor cells and determine whether or not a human body has cancer cells. The team led by professor Han Ki-ho at the Nano Convergence Engineering Division at Inje University announced on Nov. 10 that they developed a cell s

The Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning is working together with SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ to introduce biometric identification or fast identity online (FIDO) services by March of next year. Examples of such services include fingerprint recognition coming with smartphones. Personal identifica

South Korean pharmaceutical company Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co., which recorded the largest license deals for a South Korean pharmaceutical firm ever with some 5 trillion won (US$4.31 billion) of technology transfers, exported its new medicine technology to a global pharmaceutical company at some 1 tri

LG Electronics is making the winning move with a premium product strategy in the photovoltaic (PV) module sector, which is being fostered as the company’s new growth engine. With technology advancing at a fast-growing rate, the company is chasing the established vendors – Germany’s SunPower and Japa

The plate-type uranium-molybdenum (U-Mo) nuclear fuel that a Korean team recently developed is going through a performance test in an advanced research reactor in the United States. After the test is completed at the end of 2017, the nuclear fuel is to be used in Korea’s new research reactor under c

The Phase II global clinical test of HM61713, a novel 3rd generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for the treatment of EGFR mutation-positive lung cancer, has begun.Hanmi Pharmaceutical and Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) announced on Nov. 3 that they completed the first patient registrations for