Month: January 2006

Sky Italia, which is preparing to launch personal video recorder (PVR) services in Italy, selected Pace Micro Technology to provide the set-top box provider for the new MySky service. Pace...

Orbimage finalized its acquisition of rival Space Imaging, creating an imagery satellite operator dubbed Geoeye that will operate a pair of spacecraft capable of producing high-resolution images with a third...

Radyne Corp. announced that its Tiernan and Xicom Technology subsidiaries received an order valued at more than $1 million for high-definition and standard-definition TV encoders and high-power amplifiers from a...

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., announced Jan. 10 that it would immediately begin to make its line of GPS and mobile electronics devices compatible with Mac OS...

Howard Stern and his agent have made their shares in Sirius Satellite Radio available for sale, according to a Jan. 11 Sirius filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission....

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) awarded a contract to Boeing for three satellites and related ground systems to support MSV’s planned commercial mobile satellite service, the companies announced Jan. 11. The...

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB stepped up its plans for providing content on alternative platforms, launching a pair of new services, the company announced Jan. 10. Sky by broadband and...

Tore Hilde will step down as CEO of Telenor Satellite Services at the end of January due to stated differences of opinion relating to [Telenor] operations,” the company announced Jan....

Intelsat Ltd., announced a series of executive appointments that will become effective following the closing of Intelsat’s planned acquisition of Panamsat Holding Corp.. James Frownfelter, currently COO of Panamsat, will...

Wildblue Communications Inc. announced Jan. 10 that it closed a secured credit facility of more than $200 million to fund the continued growth of its high speed Internet access business....