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SES Astra Unveils New Digital TV Offering

SES Astra is enhancing its digital television service offering to broadcasters, announcing plans to offer a new infrastructure service package for free-TV, pay-TV and additional interactive services. The new offer...

Cisco Closes Scientific-Atlanta Buyout

Cisco Systems completed its acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta Feb. 27, giving the San Jose, Calif.-based Internet Protocol (IP) systems and software giant a deeper stake in emerging IPTV, video-on-demand and Internet...

Spot Image Adds Authorized Reseller

East View Cartographic of Minnesota signed an agreement with Spot Image Corp. to become an authorized reseller of Spot satellite imagery products, East View announced. France’s Spot Image operates a...

DirecTV Buys 100 Million Shares Of Stock

DirecTV Group repurchased 100 million shares of its common stock from groups representing General Motors employees in a transaction valued at about $1.6 billion, DirecTV announced Feb. 27. DirecTV agreed...

Arianespace Delays Launch Again

Arianespace delayed the scheduled Feb. 24 launch of Hisdesat‘s Spainsat and Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 7A aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at the request of one of the satellite manufacturers, Arianespace...