Knowledge Economy Minister Hong Suk-woo said these were "non-core" parts and were not a safety threat

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Center for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (COMEDD) have developed glasses that allow the wearer to flip pages on a digital document using nothing but their eyes.

Samsung has eclipsed former electronics giants like Sony thanks to the strong growth in its mobile phone sales, but the Korean company hasn't emerged as a leader in the quickly growing tablet market.

Samsung is set to take it right up to Apple with the Korean Company set to reveal a brand new slick TV interface and a new range of OLED TVs at the 2013 CES event in Las Vegas in January.

4K is largely an increase in resolution, which is only one spect of picture quality, and not the most important.

A joint venture between Sumitomo and Kazakhstan's state-owned Kazatomprom uranium mining group officially opened a rare earth metal plant Friday in the former Soviet republic.

Apple's fourth generation iPad may have been a bit-player alongside the iPad mini at the launch event last week, but the 9.7-inch tablet still gets its time under the screwdriver.

Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment (ATIC) expects to earn its first profit by 2015 as it scales up operations overseas, but plans to set up a chip manufacturing facility at home remain on hold, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

Thought that flexible displays were a long way off before they could start showing up on smartphones?

ITRI has announced its cutting edge roll-to-roll (R2R) process on 100um flexible glass substrates at FPD International.

Poland's draft renewables bill would give much greater support to large solar plants through a new feed-in tariff (FIT) and green-certificate programme.

Hurricane Sandy's economic toll is poised to exceed US$20 billion after the biggest Atlantic storm slammed into the Eastern US, damaging homes and offices and flooding subways in America's most populated city.

Australia only solar panel manufacturing plant is optimistic about being able to compete with China, which supplies up to 85% of the Australian market.

Toshiba is expected to report a 10% drop in consolidated operating profit for the April-September period as a strong yen hurt sales, the Nikkei reported.

MediaTek's MT7620 Wi-Fi SoC has been selected for the new ASUS RT-N14U N300 wireless router, debuting globally this quarter.

The communications and automotive IC markets are forecast to outpace the growth of the total IC market through 2016, according to IC Insights.

Chimei Innolux (CMI), a leading flat panel manufacturer, yesterday reported gross profit margin of 3.3% for the third quarter, turning positive for the first time in two years.

Young Fast Optical, a manufacturer of small- to medium-sized touch panel sensor products, returned to the black in the third quarter on the back of rising shipments of medium-sized products, a company official said yesterday.

Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, causing a record surge of seawater in New York City, flooding car and subway tunnels and leaving much of lower Manhattan without power.

ALi has acquired Abilis, a fabless semiconductor company providing RF modulators, secure media processors and broadcast-to-IP solutions, according to the Taiwan-based set-top box IC firm.