[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION (TOKYO:6413)(President & C.E.O.: Akira Hayama) will conduct a worldwide successive launch of two high-end, high-speed digital duplicator series from May 2014. The new products are RISO ME Series, a digital duplicator equipped with two drums, and RISO SE Series, a digital duplicator equipped with one drum. RISO ME Series can print two colors in a single pass. The print setting can be switched between dual-color and mono-color printing with a single button press in accordance with customer needs. RISO SE Series incorporates a high-speed print mode. T
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Researchers from LG Electronics (LG) and Swiss university ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) have developed a method to greatly increase the speed and efficient transmission of gas, liquid and water vapor through perforated graphene, a material that has seen an explosion of scientific interest in recent years. The findings open up the possibility in the future to develop highly efficient filters to treat air and water. Graphene, a versatile material composed of a one-atom thick layer of graphite, is the thinnest, lightest and strongest compound curr
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/p8j1Ek) (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it will launch the world’s fastest[1] microSD memory cards, compliant with UHS-II[2], the ultra high speed serial bus interface defined in SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 4.20. Sample shipments for set manufacturers of smartphones and other mobile devices, and for chipset vendors, start today. The new microSD memory cards will be available in 32GB and 64GB capacities. The maximum read speed of 260 MB per second[3] and the maximum write speed of 240MB per second in the 32 GB cards and the maximum rea
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yoook]Gunvor Group Ltd (“Gunvor”) today released its full year 2013 results, ending 31 December 2013. For the year, Gunvor's EBITDA increased by 25% to US $719 mil., up from US $575 mil. the year prior. This represents an average 28% increase in EBITDA year-on-year for the last three years. Net profit for 2013 also increased year-on-year to US $308 million, up from US $301 million in 2012. It was impacted by depreciation and some exceptional items related to acquisitions. These results came on revenue of US $91 billion, which was a slight decrease from US $93 billion the year
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Incheon Business Agency (http://www.iba.or.kr, CEO: Gyung-Hwan Choi) successfully completed ‘Cuore del Design Incheon Korea’ held in Milan, Italy. Manager of ‘Cuore del Design Incheon Korea’ said, “More than 1,000 visitors visited the exhibition per day, and a large number of visitors showed deep interest asking questions about features and development processes of products as they viewed outcomes of symbiotic collaboration between public organizations and private companies. Incheon successfully launched an affirmative flare as an international design city.” The organizer
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a new strategic collaboration to deliver global capacity for 14 nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. For the first time, the industry’s most advanced 14nm FinFET technology will be available at both Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, giving customers the assurance of supply that can only come from true design compatibility at multiple sources across the globe. The new collaboration will leverage the companies’ worldwide leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing capabilities, with volume production at Samsung’
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]CyberAgent Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo, CEO: Susumu Fujita, Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers listing: code 4751) and the consolidated subsidiary CyberZ Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo, CEO: Takahiro Yamauchi) collaborated with Seed Planning Co., Ltd (headquarters: Bunkyo, Tokyo, CEO: Yoshio Umeda) in launching a survey of the market trends of smartphone games with the Japan Online Society (headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo, CEO: Shuuhei Ueda, Kenichi Takano). The survey, in which the smartphone games were categorized as “native apps” and “browser games” (*1), p
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook] Bharat Light & Power (BLP), a leading renewable energy producer in India, today announced the full deployment of its state-of-the-art remote monitoring platform, powered by the OSIsoft PI System™. The platform, which is currently implemented across all existing wind farms throughout the country with a combined capacity of 200 megawatts, is already improving the operating productivity of BLP’s wind power projects, and over the next 10 years, will support the development of new, reliable, clean energy capacity across the country. OSIsoft, LLC and BLP launched a strategic e