[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Burrows Paper Corporation, headquartered in Little Falls, New York, today announced another step in its Innovate and Invest global strategy. The company is implementing a simultaneous conversion and expansion project, part of a comprehensive strategic plan to expand Burrows domestic paper and global packaging business groups. Burrows is a worldwide supplier of light weight specialty paper and packaging solutions. In announcements to staff and customers today, Rose Mihaly, President and Chief Operating Officer, stated the investment will both advance Burrows market positio
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Bank of Montreal (the Bank) (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) today announced that it has received approvals from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI) to proceed with its previously-announced normal course issuer bid through the facilities of the TSX to purchase, for cancellation, up to 15 million of its common shares commencing February 1, 2014, and ending January 31, 2015. The maximum number of common shares that may be repurchased under the normal course issuer bid represents approximately 2.3 per cent of the
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]NASDAQ OMX (Nasdaq:NDAQ), the world‘s leading provider of market technology, was recently selected for ’Trading Technology Product of the Year‘ by Risk Magazine’s 2014 Risk Awards. NASDAQ OMX received the award for its Genium INET trading platform, which now runs trading for 17 exchanges globally. “We are honored to receive such a highly-coveted award by Risk,” said Anna Ewing, Executive Vice President, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX. “Genium INET has allowed exchanges across the world to meet investor needs in a continuously evolving and expanding market. I'm pr
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Isola Group S. r.l., a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), announced that it has begun alpha testing of Tachyon, its new ultra-low loss product that is engineered to reduce insertion loss on high-speed digital designs. It is specifically being targeted for high-layer count backplanes for the growing 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) market that has channel data rates in excess of 25 Gbps. The demand for more feature-rich applications and faster access to computing, high-de
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and its Access Services business today announced TradeGuard, a comprehensive solution for all levels of risk management and an expansion of the enterprise risk management platform formerly known as FTEN. TradeGuard will allow customers to choose from a broad product suite for a range of risk management support, from building a custom risk solution to supplementing internal systems. RiskXposure (RX), a leading risk management engine, will still serve as the central backbone of the TradeGuard platform. Customers will have access to a
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Supertex (NASDAQ: SUPX), a recognized leader in high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs), today introduced the MD0107, a high-speed four channel auto damping device. The Supertex MD0107 is a high voltage device intended to improve the signal and image quality of ultrasound systems, and also the general signal quality with coaxial connections. The MD0107 can be considered as a normally closed switch with a typical switch resistance of 35 ohms. In this state, the MD0107 ensures that any leakage currents are shunted to ground, while maintaining a low vo
[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