XM Acquires WCS Wireless
XM Satellite Radio acquired WCS Wireless and the company’s wireless spectrum licenses in the United States, XM announced July 13. The new frequencies, which lie adjacent to XM’s satellite spectrum,...
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White Hawk Country Club Selects GPS Industries' Inforemer
GPS Industries Inc., a provider of Wi-Fi wireless and GPS-enabled communications and management systems for golf facilities and residential communities, announced July 13 that White Hawk Country Club in northwest...
ABB Wins Contract For NEC Toshiba Space Systems
ABB of Quebec City, Quebec, received a contract to supply the primary components for a Japanese satellite that will measure greenhouse gases in support of the Kyoto protocol, ABB recently...
C-Com Posts Second Quarter Profit
Ottawa’s C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. earned Cdn. $53,000 ($44,000) in its second quarter on revenue of Cdn. $1.3 million ($1.1 million), the company reported July 12. In the 2004 second...
USDA Forest Service Taps Iridium For Automated Flight Following
Iridium Satellite LLC said the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service fitted 200 primarily contract aircraft with Iridium equipment. The aircraft are part of the interagency Automated Flight-Following (AFF)...
Digitalglobe Introduces Citysphere Product
Digitalglobe July 13 announced the availability of a product aimed at helping mappers, planners and geographic information systems specialists improve geospatial applications with current high-resolution satellite imagery data. Digitalglobe Citysphere...
SES Astra Concludes Polish Internet Deal
SES Astra reached an agreement with eTel Polska to provide Internet access services to small and medium enterprises, large corporations and public institutions throughout Poland. The service will be delivered...
Panamsat Demonstrates Satellite-Enabled WiMAX Connectivity
Panamsat, Kencast Inc. and Trinity Workplace Learning took part in a demonstration of what Panamsat called “the first satellite-delivered live streaming video to handheld devices” using a WiMAX terrestrial wireless...
Intelsat, Globecast Launch European DTH Platform
Intelsat and Globecast announced July 13 they are expanding the reach of international broadcasters across Europe through the joint launch of a new Ku-band direct-to-home (DTH) television platform on the...
Segovia Names Steven Groves Director for Netcentric Research
Segovia Inc., a provider of secure global voice, data, and video broadband satellite services to U.S. military forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, named Steven Groves director for Netcentric Research....