Seoul, Korea, December 19, 2008 – The Board of Directors at LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, announced today strategic changes to the company’s structure, effective January 1, 2009. At the core of LG’s reorganization is an increase in its focus on business solutions for tomorrow’s challenging environment. The company’s business portfolio has been restructured to maximize growth potential in existing businesses while at the same time ... [2008-12-19]

Seoul, Korea, December 15th, 2008: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of telecom systems and mobile phones, announced today its provision of Mobile WiMAX equipments to two qualified WiMAX service providers, VMAX Telecom and MADA, based in Taiwan and Kuwait respectively. VMAX Telecom is a joint venture between Taiwan’s two leading telecom corporations, Tecom and Vibo Telecom. Last year, the joint venture acquired the National Communications Commission (NCC) certified WiMAX licens... [2008-12-16]

Geneva, 12 December 2008 - The first global standard offering an in-home, high-speed network capable of delivering room-to-room HDTV has been agreed by ITU. The standard, published under the G.hn banner, promises high quality multimedia over power, coaxial, phone and other home network wiring. It will give up to 20 times the throughput of existing wireless technologies and three times that of existing wired technologies. The specifications will be used by chip manufacturers to build transc... [2008-12-16]