[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Rarely is a technology trend so pronounced that it has the power to shift buying habits of an entire world. Light bulbs led to the extinction of oil lamps, music on convenient cassette tapes contributed to the demise of vinyl records, and smartphones managed to demolish the PDA industry in the new millennium. LG Electronics (LG) is currently in a similar position historically. In the span of only 18 months, LG has turned the TV industry on its head with the introduction of 3D Smart TVs featuring a newfangled technology called Film Patterned Retarder (FPR), which challenged
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]A medical device corporation, Daiwha Co., Ltd. (CEO: Lee, Anh-Bae, www.daiwha.com) released a syringe pump, ‘DS-3000.’ This new syringe pump, DS-3000 is designed to meet the requirement of high accurate infusion in drug delivery for patient. It’s generally used in ICU, Therapy Room and Infant Unit. Featuring more compact design than the other products and 1.8kg light weight, DS-3000 has been improved especially in clinical functions and user-friendly design. Just like smart phone or cell phone, it provides UI (User Interface) so that users can operate it easily, quickly an
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Top online bingo site Boylebingo.com is giving parents the chance to win extra cash at the end of the school holidays and during the first month of school term. Three thousand pounds/euro bonus and a massive one million loyalty points is up for grabs in the site's latest bingo promotion. Players can win on two leaderboards, one for bingo and another for slots/mini-games which can be played on the bingo site. On top of this, just like back in the old school days, players can earn gold stars every time their name appears in the top twenty positions on either leaderboard. The
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]US Fuel Corporation, a publicly traded company (USFF), announces an agreement to acquire intellectual property and key executives. USFF will acquire coal-to-diesel intellectual property that USFF co-developed with an executive team consisting of Paul Adams, a corporate leader experienced in technology innovation and Steve Luck, a finance consultant skilled in the commercialization of technologies. The acquisition will be underwritten by Global Private Funding Inc. (Global), a private equity lender, by way of their Business Incubation Program. USFF‘s cost-effective model an
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, today announced that its Falcon2 high performance area scan camera series is now available in color. The Color Falcon2 incorporates the company's CMOS imaging technology making these cameras ideal for: more detailed electronic component and food inspection, street mapping, medical applications, 3D color imaging in industrial applications (PCB inspection) and digital cinema. Falcon2 Color cameras enable color inspection along with fast frame rates, excellent image quality, and
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Tamares Telecom, the provider of new international communications from and to Israel, and Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, announce that the Tamares Telecom network providing seamless connectivity from Israel to international communication hubs in Europe is now fully operational. For this innovative project, Xtera supplied its advanced, multi-purpose and field-proven Nu-Wave Optima™ platform deployed in a Submarine Line Terminal Equipment (SLTE) configuration with 70 x 100G capacity per fiber pair. Xtera partnere
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]On the heels of its successful debut in Korea and Japan, the Optimus Vu: will make its global debut starting in select markets in Europe, Asia, Middle East/Africa and Latin America starting in September. With the world’s first 5-inch 4:3 aspect ratio display, the Optimus Vu: blurs the line between traditional tablets and smartphones for a truly unique smart device experience. Since its March debut in Korea, the Optimus Vu: has sold over 500,000 units, demonstrating public acceptance of its form-factor. The reception the device received in Korea prompted LG to launch the Op
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced today that the first patient in the United States has been implanted with the company's Lumax 740 dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). “Patients on anti-arrhythmic medication may have slower ventricular tachycardias, which can influence a patient‘s hemodynamics and directly affect a device’s ability to discriminate arrhythmias and successfully restore a normal rhythm,” said Larry A. Chinitz, M.D, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Invasive Cardiology at the NYU Heart Rhyth
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, a top ‘pro-Korean’ law firm based in the U.S., will open a foreign legal consultant office – the first of its kind in Korea – on the 23rd floor of Center One Building in Euljiro, Seoul, on August 16. The new office, which is the firm’s 16th location, will be led by Partner Seth (Byoung Soo) Kim. Kim was previously based in Sheppard Mullin‘s New York and Los Angeles offices and chair of the firm’s Korea practice. Founded in 1927, Sheppard Mullin now serves more than half of the Fortune 100 companies in the U.S., while hav
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Korea Global Peace Festival (GPF) Foundation (Chairman: Hyunjin Moon) will hold Global Peace Leadership Conference Korea 2012 (GPLC 2012) at Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul on Aug. 17-18, 2012. This is the fourth event after the opening of GPLC 2011 in Mongolia, Malaysia, and South Korea. GPLC 2012 will be held in line with the theme Future Vision of a Unified Korea and the Establishment of Global Peace, and will be participatedin by academic and field experts from the U.S., Russia, Japan, and China who have been active in the fields related to Northeast Asian security for mor