Kim Jong Un's hip, young reign over North Korea continues today as the mobile operator Koryolink officially turns on its data services, opening the gate to Instagram, Foursquare, and Twitter, among other social apps. Read More >>
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"I'm not taking sides. I just won't be fulled by the "war propaganda machine" and act as someone else's war horse. People keep talking all imaginable s..." More »
HTC's quarterly profits are in, and it's bad news all round -- a 91 per cent slump. All that could be about to change, though, as HTC's just received the celebrity endorsement every smartphone manufacturer dreams of. Yes, an HTC phone is the go-to device of the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Sexiest Man of the Year and all-round badass horse-rider, Kim Jong-un. Read More >>
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"that's fair enough. it's a lot to get your head round if that's your first device that you've tried to root - heck, I struggled to root a Galaxy S des..." More »
North Korea has stopped confiscating the mobile phones of tourists when they enter the country, instead getting with the programme and flogging international SIM cards to visitors when they arrive. We will make a capitalist hell out of it yet. Read More >>
North Korea's led the charge in a lot of areas, fictional animal lair discoveries, for one. But South Korea's crazy cousins to the north aren't exactly known to excel at internet culture. So while it's no surprise that their official Twitter account only follows three accounts, as Mother Jones discovered, it is, in fact, very surprising that the only active user in that very small bunch is some American dude named Jimmy Dushku. Read More >>
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"Probably looking for low cost tech workers, just like the south korean animation companies who work for hollywood studios..." More »
Kim Jong Un invented time travel, cured cancer, cloned a wooly mammoth, and became the first male human to give birth, which is exactly why he's Time's 2012 man of the year. Wait, that's the North Korean version of the story. In reality, 4Chan just manipulated the vote. Read More >>
Featured comment by eulenspiegel:
"I hate you, that was one of the worst songs I have ever heard. On a different note, why does Britney have a British accent?!
Have some Klaus Nomi
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New analysis suggests North Korea clandestinely tested two nuclear weapons in 2010. If it's true, it would double the number of known tests hailing from the country and could mean serious nuclear warhead development is underway. Read More >>