[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Cortina Systems, Inc. (Cortina®), delivering innovative technologies that link people and networks worldwide, today announced the industry leading CS4224, a 16-port backplane PHY, and CS4221, a 10-port CDR, both supporting data rates up to 15Gbps. While keeping within a 15x15mm footprint, the CS4224 supports a wide operating frequency range of 1Gbps to 15Gbps and delivers equalization capability that significantly exceeds the requirements of industry standards such as 10GBase-KR and 40GBase-KR4. Both devices support the rates for all major high speed interconnect standard
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Finspreads: Shares in James River Coal shot up at the end of trading on the Nasdaq yesterday (January 21st), as rising gas prices continue to improve the prospects for cheaper heating alternatives this winter. The sharp rise indicates a reversal in the fortunes of the coal company, whose shares have struggled along with others in the sector in recent months. And with the cost of natural gas becoming increasingly higher, some analysts believe that thermal coal production companies like James River could see their shares increase and remain steady over the course of next mo
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]City Index UK: The FTSE lost ground in early trading on Tuesday as investors paused for breath after hitting five-year highs in the previous session and markets struggled for direction. Acting as a backdrop was news that the Bank of Japan has raised its interest rate target to 2% and an announcement that it will undertake a programme of open-ended asset purchases starting in 2014. The policy announcement overall failed to live up to expectations, putting a negative shadow over Asian and European markets. Read Full Article at cityindex.co.uk: Bank of Japan disappoints pull
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micron Technology, Inc., (Nasdaq:MU) today announced its next-generation solid state drive (SSD) for data center servers, appliances, and storage platforms that manage the volume and velocity of big data. The new Micron P400m SSD is a high-endurance SATA caching and storage solution that was designed to handle the amassing petabytes of structured and unstructured digital information that is created, stored and accessed every day in data centers. Data reliability and system uptime have always been primary concerns for data center managers, but the accelerating influx of da
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Firebird International, staffed by experts in various technology and media-related fields, who have worked actively for years in Russia and the C.I.S., is actively seeking clients who produce high-quality generalized and niche content to sell for international broadcast and digital distribution. The company already represents studios, content aggregators and distributors and markets 100,000 plus hours of films, tv shows, adult entertainment, and music that it sells with and without associated technology products on behalf of its clients to Russia and C.I.S.-based partners
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Limelight Networks (Nasdaq:LLNW), a leader in digital presence management, today announced the appointment of Robert Lento as chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Mr. Lento has been serving as the Company's Interim CEO since November 26, 2012. “Over the past two months I‘ve had the opportunity to work closely with our board and many of our employees,” said Mr. Lento. “I’m extremely impressed with the people, products, and services we offer in the market. I'm excited about our future and proud to be part of Limelight Networks.” Mr. Lento brings over 30 yea
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Only 36% of CEOs worldwide are ‘very confident’ of their company’s growth prospects in the next 12 months, according to PwC’s 16th Annual Global CEO Survey. That’s down from 40% who were ‘very confident’ of short term growth last year and 48% in 2011, but still above the lows of 31% and 21% in 2010 and 2009. Looking at the economy generally, 28% of CEOs say the global economy will decline further in 2013, and only 18% predict economic improvement; 52% say it will stay the same. While the CEOs' outlook remains gloomy, the forecast is an improvement on last year when 48% of
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]NASDAQ OMX (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has been selected to deliver its SMARTS Integrity market surveillance system to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), a central EU institution in the creation of a Single Energy Market to the benefit of all EU consumers, to monitor the European wholesale gas and electricity markets covering both spot trading and derivative markets across Europe in accordance with the obligations under the REMIT legislation. The REMIT legislation, otherwise known as Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and the Council on who