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We receive some strange press releases, but even by usual standards the one about the beaming of Keanu Reeves' new movie into space is going some. It seems that this Friday the new version of The Day The Earth Stood Still is going to be ...

Just got back from Korea, after two weeks spent with the country's largest consumer electronics companies - sorry, Daewoo - and it's time to take stock of what we've learned, and what to expect for next year.First, and most important, point is ...

As you may already have read, I've been pretty impressed with the testing facilities in Samsung's main R&D labs here at Suwon, south of Seoul. But being impressed turned to dropped jaws when we were introduced to the company's deep testing ...

Took a bit of a nose around Samsung's history gallery, at the entrance to which is both a bust of company founder  Byung-chull Lee and a video screen showing interviews with him. He started in business with a small store in 1938, and ...

You may remember I told you yesterday about the huge research and development complex at Samsung's Suwon HQ here in Seoul. Well, the picture above shows the massive research and development tower I was talking about, and where we've been ...

The main R&D tower here at Samsung's complex here in Suwon, some 65km south of Seoul, rises 38 floors, dominating the skyline for miles around. 9000 people work in this gargantuan bulding, out of a total of almost 23,000 on this site. That ...

It's a given that anyone visiting Japan on their first consumer electronics press trip will mention two things: one is Blade Runner, the other is the Akihabara area, Tokyo's 'electric town', which they're likely to say is unlike anywhere else in ...

When I attended my first-ever journalist's law course, the trainer was a Fleet Street hack who mainly covered the Old Bailey, and had had his own fair share of run-ins with Messrs Psue, Grabbit and Run.He fixed us newbie writers, most of us fresh ...

Driving North-west out of Seoul towards Paju, home of one of LG's major display panel facilities, the crippling city traffic soon thins out.Here the highway runs beside the river, and the country's car companies take advantage of the light ...

So the world is undergoing financial meltdown, and most consumer electronics companies are wringing their hands, battening down the hatches, lashing themselves to the masts and preparing to weather the storm. So why are the guys in LG's Twin ...