Author: Staff Writer

OnStar, a Troy, Mich.-based GPS system for automobiles, helped the FBI capture a suspect featured on “America’s Most Wanted.” An OnStar subscriber filed a missing-car report to the Williamson County...

Harris [HRS], a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based satellite communications company, signed a contract to support DigitalGlobe‘s satellite control system upgrade-and-expansion program. Harris will provide the satellite command and control system for...

Encore Networks executives say the company recently completed certification testing between the ViaSat [VSAT] LinkStar IP satellite terminal, and Encore’s VSR-30 and Bandit product lines. Encore says the combined platform...

SES Americom, a unit of SES Global, said today that the company signed a deal to deliver live and recorded programming from XY.tv. XY.tv is a 24-hour network of original...

XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] officials said their satellite radio service this Wednesday will debut XM America Left, a new talk-radio channel dedicated to “progressive” political viewpoints. America Left’s daily program...

NDS CEO Abe Peled expects the main 2004 growth drivers for the company to come from lucrative contracts in Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. NDS recently...

Luxembourg-based SES Global, the world’s largest satellite operating company, appears to be bottoming out and heading for a financial upswing starting next year. That is the view of key satellite...

The original investors of low-Earth-orbit satellite services Iridium and Globalstar who lost nearly all their money could not be blamed for regretting that either multi-billion dollar venture was built. Now...

The high-stakes battles that pit price-gouging television programmers against increasingly resistant satellite and cable TV service providers are becoming more frequent than ever, and Congress is taking notice. Consumers are...

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a provider of satellite broadband services through its DirecWay brand, has introduced a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access service aimed at such consumer-oriented businesses as...