[NBC-1TV 박승훈 기자]국가보훈처(처장 박승춘)는 제68주년 광복절을 맞이하여 애국선열들의 나라사랑 정신을 계승․발전시켜 국민 단합의 계기로 승화시키고 한인 후손들의 자긍심과 애국심 고취를 도모하기 위해 4개국 6개도시에서 국외 경축식을 개최한다. 멕시코의 메리다에서 개최(8.18)하는 광복절 경축식에는 국가보훈처 최완근차장(정부대표)을 비롯해 홍성화 주멕시코대사, 한인후손, 교민대표 등 500여 명이 참석하여 68년 전 조국광복의 기쁨과 그 의미를 되새기게 된다. 그리고 한인후손들에게 모국에 대한 나라사랑정신을 일깨워주기 위해 경축식 및 ‘아리랑․조국찬가 등의 합창’과 ‘사물놀이’, ‘무궁화 공연단 부채춤’, ‘한글학교 학생 독창’ 등의 기념공연, 기념리셉션 순으로 진행될 예정이다. 메리다는 1905년 1,033명의 한인들이 멕시코 에네껜 농장 근로자로 이주한 초기 정착지역으로 한인후손 6천여 명이 거주하고 있으며, 우리 국권이 상실된 시기에 독립운동 자금 등을 모금한 독립운동사적지가 있는 의미 있는 장소로서 정부대표단은 메리다에 거주하는 한인후손들을 위로․격려할 예정이다.미국에서는 워싱턴지구한인연합회․뉴욕한
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Limelight Networks (Nasdaq:LLNW), a leader in digital presence management, today announced that it is expanding its presence in India with a new point of presence in Mumbai. The company will also begin selling its Limelight OrchestrateTM (“Orchestrate”) Digital Presence Platform in the country. India continues to emerge as an important market for Limelight's services. According to a new report from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), digital media consumption continues to grow as the country increasingly expands access to mobile devices and internet conn
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]China's leading online travel agency has successfully virtualized its data center operations following the deployment of an Ethernet fabric powered by the Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) VDX® switch family. Ctrip.com International Ltd (NASDAQ: CTRP), which operates the Ctrip.com Web site and call center as well as conventional travel agency branches in 16 cities across China, is now running approximately 500 virtual machines (VMs) on 200 host servers at its Shanghai data center along with additional VMs running at its testing and development center in Nantong. Ctrip‘s virtualizat
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]BCS Global Network Limited, a leading worldwide provider of managed videoconferencing, telepresence, and visual collaboration services, announces a strategic partnership with Vidtel to provide Virtual Connect, a new cloud-based, any-to-any video conferencing service. When it comes to video conferencing, businesses struggle with the complexities around multi-vendor interoperability and the difficulty of communicating across different video conferencing systems. Often there is significant capital expenditure required in the installation of multiple video conferencing system
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Suttle, a wholly owned subsidiary of Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCS), introduces FutureLink™, an umbrella brand encompassing next generation fiber and copper connectivity solutions. From the central office all the way into the premise, FutureLink™ brings flexibility, reliability and higher speeds to networks, while lowering total cost of ownership. “Successful service delivery requires reducing installation time and recurring costs, while future-proofing the network for diverse, bandwidth-hungry applications and services,” explained George Wakileh, Suttle Globa
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]e2v aerospace and defense, Inc.(http://www.e2v-us.com/) (e2v a&d), a leader in RF power, imaging, and hi-rel semiconductor solutions, recently launched a life extension program for selected memory devices of Micron Technology Inc. (Micron), one of the world's leading providers of advanced memory solutions. The program, which will encompass a large portfolio of Micron SDR and DDR memory products, will supplement Micron‘s Product Longevity Program (PLP) by enhancing it with e2v a&d’s industry-leading Semiconductor Lifecycle Management program (SLiM). e2v a&d has designed th
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Symetis Inc., a privately-owned Swiss company focused on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) systems, announced that its ACURATE TA™ and ACURATE TF™ TAVI systems were used to successfully treat patients at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. These procedures were performed as part of a feasibility study being conducted under the leadership of Professor Yoshiki Sawa. The four patients were treated by Professor Toru Kuratani, with two patients receiving a transapical ACURATE TA™ valve and two patients rece
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]In the 1990s, South Koreans, who were quite used to PC communications Chollian, HiTEL, and Nownuri, encountered ‘Yahoo Korea’ for the first time in 1997. Afterwards, Yahoo Korea demonstrated its power as a ‘portal dinosaur ’ with nearly 80% market share until the early 2000s. However, it plummeted to 0.25% in 2012 after being defeated by ‘NHN(It operates the Naver portal)’ that featured knowledge search since 2002, forcing Yahoo Korea to withdraw from the South Korean market. After launching a commercial website in 1999 while studying abroad, I tried to register it with s