[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Golden Frog(http://www.goldenfrog.com/), a global privacy and security software and applications company, today announced a new, proprietary VPN technology designed to mask Internet traffic to defeat VPN blocking in restrictive environments like China. Chameleon scrambles OpenVPN packet metadata to ensure it's not recognizable via deep packet inspection, while still keeping it fast and lightweight. The Chameleon technology uses unmodified OpenVPN 256-bit protocol for the underlying data encryption. The result is that VyprVPN users are able to bypass restrictive networks p
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/p8j1Ek) (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has developed a wristband activity and fitness monitor that is available from NTT Docomo, Inc. from today. The monitor integrates low power Bluetooth® 4.0 and synchronizes with a smartphone app that displays monitored activities. It makes tracking daily activities as easy as wearing a wristband. Toshiba’s low-power technology ensures that the activity sensors secure a long life between charges. The sensor information can categorize the user’s activity as “rest,” “walking,” “running” and more;
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]olarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced SolarWinds Virtual Classrooms(https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/?redirectUrl...), a free virtual learning experience for eligible IT professionals that have purchased SolarWinds product maintenance. In virtual classrooms, SolarWinds product experts will host live, interactive training sessions designed to help IT pros harness the power of their SolarWinds deployments to do their jobs more effectively and efficiently as infrastructure complexity and skillset demands on IT p
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/p8j1Ek) (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of low-height SO6L package gate-drive photocouplers for use in driving small- to medium-power IGBTs and power MOSFETs. Mass production is scheduled for the end of January. The new products, “TLP5701” for driving small-power IGBTs and “TLP5702” for driving middle-power IGBTs, are the first Toshiba photocouplers to use the low-height SO6L package. At only 54% of Toshiba products that use the SDIP6 package, the new devices will contribute to development of thinner sets. In spite of their low h
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Glaston has closed a EUR 1.8 million deal with CSG Group for a double chamber furnace FC500™+ RC350™ 2460-380 equipped with the advanced Vortex Pro™ convection control system representing Glaston‘s latest technology and highest configuration. Two sets of jumbo size UC1000 automatic cutting lines are also included in the deal. The line will be installed in CSG’s Chengdu plant, the company being the leading glass processor in South-West China. This is the first FC500™ double chamber furnace sold in China. The machines will be reported in Glaston's Q1/2014 order book and wil
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) and F&C Asset Management plc (LSE: FCAM) today announced that an agreement has been reached on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition by which the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of F&C will be acquired by BMO Global Asset Management (Europe) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Montreal. Under the terms of the acquisition, F&C shareholders will be entitled to receive 120 pence in cash for each F&C share held. This represents a premium of approximately 28% to the closing price of F&C shares as at J
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Tapjoy, Inc., a leading mobile ad-tech and monetization platform, was the “highest-rated mobile ad network” in an independent survey conducted by the technology news outlet VentureBeat. The newly released VentureBeat Mobile Ad Index was based on thousands of survey responses from VentureBeat readers and analyzes the performance, functionality, ease-of-use, installation process, customer support and other attributes of today's leading mobile networks and platforms. Tapjoy was the only company among those listed to receive a perfect score to the question, “On a scale of 1-1
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Botlek Tank Terminal (BTT), a leading tank terminal storage company, transformed its core business from the storage of grains to the storage of oils with the help of Descartes' advanced European customs connectivity and compliance capabilities. “In the European oil storage business, the communication and exchange of documents with customs authorities is mission critical, much more so than with grain storage. With excise amounts in the mi