[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Skybox Imaging (Skybox) announced today the release of the world’s first high-resolution, high-definition video of Earth taken by a commercial remote sensing satellite. These videos were taken by SkySat-1, the first of Skybox’s planned constellation of 24 satellites, and showcase high-resolution views of Tokyo, Bangkok, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Aleppo, Syria. The video clips have not yet been calibrated or tuned. SkySat-1 captures up to 90-second video clips at 30 frames per second. The resolution is high enough to view objects like shipping containers that impact the gl
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Planet8, a web developing company(Co-CEO: Mr. Jung Ji-soo, Mr. Lee Jae-Geun) and PayGate, electronic payment service provider(CEO: Ms. Park So-Yeong) co-releases ‘PayGate Woopay’ on 27 December. PayGate Woopay is a finely optimized Woo commerce plug-in of Wordpress. Any merchant who uses a Wordpress platform shopping mall can install it without difficulty. The payment module works on Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc. and also works on smartphone environment and Mac OS. Through partnership, PayGate will work on the sales of Woopay, and Planet8 will support te
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]As well as thrusting the “100 Thousand Solar Lanterns Project” to donate a total of 100 thousand solar lanterns to the regions without electricity by 2018, the company’s centennial, Panasonic Corporation (TOKYO:6752) has launched “Cut Out the Darkness,” a project to deliver solar lanterns and shades based on designs contributed by participants to homes and schools in the non-electrified regions. The company seeks to involve people around the world in the project and to make those participants aware of issues in the regions without electricity. Currently, about 1.32 billio
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]LG Electronics (LG) will showcase its next generation of smart innovations and technologies that take advantage of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to allow customers to communicate, control, monitor and share content with LG home appliances via the popular mobile messenger, LINE, and LG’s HomeChatTM service. With HomeChat, there is no learning curve because it was designed to be used with one of today’s most popular and free mobile messenger, LINE. With 310 million users worldwide, LINE is available on all major smartphone platforms: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Blac
By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Menicon announces that an article entitled, “Dogs and humans share a common susceptibility gene SRBD1 for glaucoma risk”, which presents the results of a study conducted by Menicon, Azabu University, and Yokohama City University (hereinafter designated as “this study”), was published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE. Menicon conducted a joint study with Azabu University and Yokohama City University and found that Shiba Inu dogs and humans share a susceptibility gene for glaucoma. To date, several reports on normal tension glaucoma have been published, thus prompting Meni
In a study published November 20, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine1, researchers looked at the association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality among 76,464 women in the Nurses’ Health Study and 42,498 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Consumption of nuts, including tree nuts (such as pistachios, almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, and walnuts), was inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women, independent of other predictors for death. In addition, there were significant inverse association
Following the announcement of a conditional merger agreement earlier this year between PwC and Booz & Company, Booz & Company has today announced that its partners have approved the combination. Subject to completion of regulatory approvals and other closing conditions, the transaction is expected to conclude in March 2014. Commenting on today's announcement by Booz & Company, Dennis Nally, Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International said: "We are delighted the Booz & Company partners have approved combining with PwC and we look forward to welcoming them and their colleagues into the PwC
iHerb.com, a leading online retailer of nutritional supplements and wellness products announced today that it won the 2013 Best International Business Mobile Website from The Web Marketing Association. As part of the second annual international MobileWebAward Competition, The Web Marketing Association recognized achievements of web professionals from all over the world who create the best mobile websites and applications. “We are excited to be chosen by The Web Marketing Association for the Best International Business Mobile Website,” said Eiman Zabihi, Chief Technology Officer at iHerb. “The
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]ZTE Corporation welcomes the final determination of the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”) rejecting the patent claims made by InterDigital Inc. The ITC cleared ZTE of the infringement complaints by InterDigital on six patents, and ruled that another patent claimed by InterDigital was invalid. The final determination in the 337-TA-800 case upheld the ITC’s preliminary determination made on 28 June, 2013, and removes the basis for possible exclusion orders and cease and desist orders against ZTE products by the ITC. “We are delighted about the ITC’s adjud
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it will start sample shipments of “TCM9518MD”, for application in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, on January 31, 2014. The new product is the industry's first[1] dual camera module to incorporate twin 1/4 inch optical format 5-megapixel CMOS camera modules (5 megapixels x 2 arrays), which simultaneously outputs recorded images and depth data. The dedicated image processing LSI of the “TCM9518MD” measures and appends depth data to objects in the image. Used in combination with customers' applications, the