Month: April 2003

Industry Canada is providing C$5.25 million (US$3.61 million) in funding for a C$17.5 million (US$12 million) project by Vistar Telecommunications to develop a next-generation satellite-based telematics system for wireless asset...

LocatioNet, a San Diego-based developer of a location-based services for the wireless market, is offering gpsOne applications, known as PointSearch, based on Qualcomm‘s [Nasdaq: QCOM] binary runtime environment for wireless...

Launch of the AMC-9 satellite has been delayed by about 30 days after last Saturday’s planned lift-off was postponed due to a technical problem with a component on the Proton...

Washington D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR], America’s largest satellite radio service, is introducing the first satellite radio receiver designed for personal computers. The XM PC Receiver, called XM PCR,...

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) and Net2Phone are partnering to offer what they describe as the first end-to-end satellite voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service. The service is tailored as a...

IONA [Nasdaq: IONA], a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of integration software, and Connexion By Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA] that provides communication services to aircraft, have announced that...

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE), a unit of Hughes Network Systems, has agreed to provide its DirecWay broadband satellite service to PHC Poland for resale to small and medium-sized businesses...

A start-up company has raised seed money and collaborated with a top-notch university to launch a satellite this summer aimed at detecting signs of earthquake activity in California with the...

In the near term, the fixed-satellite service (FSS) industry is likely to be characterized by incremental growth rather than by “blockbuster” mergers between operators, according to panelists at a recent...

Rockwell Collins’ [NYSE: COL] high-speed satellite communications (satcom) system has received Federal Aviation Administration certification for use on aircraft manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace. The Collins HST-900 system provides in-flight passenger...