[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the creation of the Sports and Fitness Working Group and is now accepting members. This group will work together to enhance interoperability between Bluetooth enabled sports and fitness sensor products and training computers (Bluetooth Smart devices) and hub devices such as smartphones, PCs, TVs (Bluetooth Smart Ready devices), gym equipment, watches and more to allow a new generation of functionality. Bluetooth v4.0 with low energy technology gives any device, from a static data-collecting sensor to a laptop or ta
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Combining dynamic, sophisticated styling with maturity and prestige, the all-new cee’d five-door hatchback makes its world debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The new cee’d is longer, wider and lower than its predecessor, with the same long wheelbase. The elegant simplicity of its coupe-like proportions is emphasised by a steeply raked A-pillar, a very low belt-line in the front and lengthened side windows. The front of the new cee’d is dominated by the latest interpretation of Kia’s trademark ‘tiger-nose’ grille and aggressive, wraparound headlamp clusters housing signat
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Bombardier Aerospace today announced the establishment of a Bombardier Commercial Aircraft regional sales and marketing office in Singapore to serve the Asia-Pacific region. “This new sales and marketing office will further extend our global presence and provide closer proximity to current and prospective customers in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Torbjorn Karlsson, Vice President, Sales, Asia-Pacific, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. “We will be able to provide an almost instant response to any request for information on our Q-Series, CRJ and CSeries aircraft families.” “
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Stuttgart Sports Cars Ltd., the official Porsche importer in Korea, introduced Panamera S Hybrid at The Shilla, Seoul on February 15th, 2012. The high performance and lower consumption of the new Grand Turismo exemplifies Porsche Intelligent Performance, a philosophy which Porsche has adhered throughout its history. The new Panamera S Hybrid is the most economical Porsche of all time. The car marks the beginning of a new chapter of Porsche Intelligent Performance, continuing the success story of the four-door Gran Turismo. Without sacrificing sportiness and elegance, the n
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]TranSwitch Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the rapidly growing consumer electronics and telecommunications markets, today announced that its Atlanta 2000™ LTE Gateway reference design has successfully completed testing over the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE * (Long Term Evolution) development network. In addition to validating operability of the TranSwitch reference design on the 4G LTE network, the testing confirmed the Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) capability of the design, a step that can lead to the development and implementation of prod
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, ending March 31, 2012, as well as for the first nine months. In the third quarter (October-December 2011), Nissan reported an operating profit of 118.1 billion yen (US$1.53 billion, euro 1.13 billion) up 3.6% compared to the same period in FY2010, and an operating profit margin of 5.1%. Third quarter net revenue was 2.331 trillion yen (US$30.12 billion, euro 22.35 billion), up 10.9% year-on-year. Ordinary profit reached 121.5 billion yen (US$1.57 billion, euro 1.16 billion)
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Kia Motors Corporation announced today its global sales figures (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants) for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for January 2012, recording a total of 185,284 units sold. This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. In January, Kia posted strong double digit year-on-year sales increases in two of its major sales regions – 33.2% in Europe* (35,852 units sold) and 27.4% in North America (39,291 units sold). It was the highest total global January sales ever for Kia. Kia’s b
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high-bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today announced the Ripple Blocker family comprising the MIC94300 voltage follower output and the MIC94310 fixed output, low-dropout (LDO) IC. The solutions will be previewing at the 2012 APEC Conference, Orlando, FL held February 5-9, 2012, booth number 411-413. The ground-breaking new MIC94300/MIC94310 were developed to provide more efficient noise suppression for today‘s highly sensitive data and image capturing systems. The MIC94300 integrates a low-RDSo