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By Jimmy Schaeffler LAS VEGAS–In the competitive ebb and flow of the U.S. multichannel video market, satellite and wireless technologies have gained significant advantages, based on what was shown to...

Shin Satellite, the Thailand-based satellite operator, hopes to gets its ambitious iPSTAR broadband program moving this year. The operator plans to launch iPSTAR-1 in the middle of this year as...

Week of Jan. 9-15, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol Jan. 15 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.74 (2.1) 6.6 22.9 15.1...

Vancouver, Canada-based GPS Industries [OTCBB: GPSN], a provider of GPS-based golfing products, announced the installation of its Inforemer GPS-based golf solution at Noosa Springs Golf Club on Australia’s Sunshine Coast....

Alcatel Space, the satellite manufacturing arm of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has received an order from the French defense procurement agency DGA to build a new military communications satellite called...

French firms ORCA Instrumentation and Advanced Concept and System Architecture (ACSA) have developed a GPS Intelligent Buoy (GIB) system designed to track underwater vehicles in real-time.GIB is a new concept...

Paris-based satellite operator GlobeCast has signed a contract to deliver Vectone Entertainment Network‘s community channels – Vectone Urdu, Vectone Bangla, Vectone Tamil and Vectone Hindi – using Eutelsat‘s Eurobird and...

The European Space Agency missions planned this year include the launch of the Rosetta spacecraft to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in February, the mission of ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers to the...

Two United Nations‘ agencies – the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) – are teaming with India to help boost the delivery of postal services to...

Kevin N. McGrath has been named president and CEO of Digital Angel [AMEX: DOC], a So. St. Paul, Minn.-based location tracking company. Prior to joining Digital Angel, McGrath spent 16...