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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 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...

Japan’s Space Communications Corp. (SCC) purchased a satellite geolocation system from Qinetiq, which will allow SCC to identify and locate sources of interference to its satellites, Qinetiq announced Feb. 28....

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the U.S. Treasury Department agency responsible for collecting taxes, as well as administering business and individual tax programs. The nearly 100,000 IRS employees include...

IP VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) via satellite is a distinct application targeted specifically at the large, small and medium enterprise (SME), and small office/home office (SoHo) sectors. A...

When a corporation has production information that must be transmitted from remote sites in the field to its headquarters in an area lacking a traditional communications infrastructure, IT network managers...

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...

Boeing Co. received a $3.5 million follow-on task order from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to enhance radar imagery data collected during the February 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission....

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 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...