[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]McDonald’s Chief Executive Officer Jim Skinner today announced that Tim Fenton, currently President of McDonald’s Asia, Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) and 39-year veteran with the Company, has been elected to the role of Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for the company’s more than 33,500 restaurants worldwide. Fenton will assume his new role effective July 1, 2012. Fenton, 54, was elected by the McDonald’s Board of Directors today upon the recommendation of Skinner and CEO-Elect Don Thompson. As announced last month, current COO Thompson will become P
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume rendering technology, and Teikyo University School of Medicine, one of the leading centers for medical research and patient care in Japan, today announced a collaboration to bring High Definition Volume Rendering® on the iPad to the operating room. Fovia's HDVR® Connect software, now available for the iPad, delivers critical information in real time, giving surgeons the ability to significantly enhance surgical outcomes. With HDVR on the iPad, physicians and surgeons have access to advanced visualization on a mobile, multi-tou
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]“Shall I wear flat shoes or high heeled shoes when I go to office?” Ms. Joy, who works as a designer at EA, a renowned U.S.-based game company, had to agonize over shoes before leaving for the office in the morning of the day when she had a dinner appointment in the evening. While flat shoes are convenient in the office, she needed to wear high heeled shoes for the evening appointment. In that case, she used to carry high heeled shoes to the office in a shopping bag, but that was very inconvenient and troublesome. She eventually told her problem to a design team at IBNIA,
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]WCO RILO AP(World Customs Organization Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for Asia and the Pacific), the first international organization hosted by Korea Customs Service (Commissioner, Joo, Yung-sup) launches the first overseas Technical Assistance mission as the regional intelligence center after the Opening ceremony held on last February 2. RILO AP is dispatching 3 experts including intelligence analysts to New Delhi, India, an affiliated Member of RILO AP. 20 Indian Customs officials are going to be given an in-depth training on intelligence analysis technique and th
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]High Touch Korea(www.hightouchkorea.com), a Korea-based PR and consulting agency, announced that it welcomes customized PR and marketing projects for global companies and country pavilions exhibiting at EXPO 2012 YEOSU KOREA held from May 12 through August 12, 2012 at Yeosu, a southern tip harbor city of South Korea. High Touch Korea, which provides “high-touch” services for branding, market survey, cultural training, media PR/marketing campaigns and consumer communications services, has been taking a survey to some big exhibitors and high-fame participants in EXPO 2012 Y
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]LG Electronics (LG) announced the worldwide opening of 3D World, a premium content service that will be available to LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV users in nearly 70 countries. With DNA from LG’s original 3D Zone Smart TV app launched last year, 3D World gives LG customers access to an expansive selection of high quality 3D content via a “card” on the Home Dashboard. 3D World allows customers the ability to search through high quality 3D content across numerous content categories such as entertainment, sports, documentary, kids, and lifestyle. Once the content is selected, LG’s
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Global Neurotech (GNT) Pharma Co., Ltd., a privately held company based in Yongin-si, South Korea is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC) based in Tokyo. TTC will represent GNT Pharma exclusively in Japan in promoting its products and technologies in the area of first-in-class new drug discovery for neurological and inflammatory diseases. “With the changing business model for drug discovery, we are happy to appoint TTC as our exclusive representative in Japan to help us grow our Japanese customer base. As TTC's plan looks to ex
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]TranSwitch Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the rapidly growing consumer video and telecommunications markets, today announced the TXC-44152 and the TXC-44154, the newest additions to its HDplay™ family of products. These new products expand the reach of the HDplay™ family to high volume segments of the projector and TV markets that require smaller form factor and cost optimized solutions. Both these new products are compatible with existing devices and allow manufacturers to deploy HDplay™ products across their product lines wi
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU), one of the world‘s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) that broadens Micron’s client product portfolio to serve the rapidly emerging Ultrabook™ category. The newly announced drive is based on the proven architecture of Micron's popular RealSSD™ C400 drives, providing the same high performance and reliability. The C400 mSATA drive is designed to work in ultrathin, high-performance SSD-based systems and can also act as a cache drive in dual-drive systems. SSD-caching system
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea won both overall men’s and women’s titles at the 9th WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships, which concluded its five-day event in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on April 8, 2012. In the men’s division, Korea grabbed four gold medals and three silver medals for a total of 89 points. Iran came next with two gold medals and two silver medals for 62 points, followed by Russia with one gold and two bronze medals for 44 points. Spain came next with one gold and one bronze medal for 38 points, followed by Chinese Taipei with one gold for 37 points. In the women’s division, Kore