Retail in Asia

New BlackBerry to counter iPhone

Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled a new BlackBerry, the Torch, aimed at wooing consumers from Apple’s iPhone and other rival handsets, but analysts say the new phone won’t blow away th…

Korean regulator approves iPhone 4

South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said on Tuesday it has given Apple Inc. approval to start the sale of its latest smartphone, the iPhone 4, in the country, but consumers there will sti…

iPhone delay upsets S Korea

While Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 weathers a public-relations storm over reception issues in the US, it is facing a different tempest in South Korea: people are upset the country was dropped from a li…