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West Coast retail customers who shop at Good Guys have been enjoying in-car TV via the TracVision5, made by KVH Industries [KVHI], a Middletown, R.I.-based satellite company. KVH used a...

ISECUREtrac [ISRE], an Omaha, Neb.-based Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking service, signed a three-year agreement with Pennsylvania Adult Probation and Parole to supply the county with its tracNET24 criminal-justice tracking...

New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] and XM Satellite Radio [XMSR], two U.S. satellite radio service providers, announced their services will be available as factory-installed equipment or dealer-installed options beginning...

Luxsat expects to play a key role in making Video-On Demand (VOD) a reality across Europe. It aims to help satellite, cable and terrestrial players bring a rich VOD service...

A multi-beam antenna design that simultaneously communicates with as many as 20 satellites – compared with one antenna for one satellite in conventional systems — was awarded the 2004 “Industry...

Mark Dankberg, the entrepreneurial engineer who founded and heads Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat [VSAT], offered a bold challenge for the satellite industry to double or triple its available broadband bandwidth and...

Industry CEOs voiced uncharacteristic bullishness about their companies’ prospects for the coming year earlier this week during a panel discussion at the Satellite 2004 conference’s one-day financial forum at the...

The world of fixed satellite services (FSS) is evolving into one of scrappy survivors whose leaders are assessing the same marketplace but are drawing different conclusions about the best actions...

New anti-jamming capabilities were introduced last week at Satellite 2004 by QinetiQ, a Farnborough, U.K.-based science and technology company with 10,000 employees. The company’s advanced system, called satID, identifies and...

By Kirby Ikin Insurance is not a subject many would consider a driver in the space industry. In fact, few within the space industry give insurance the consideration that it...