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Hughes Network Systems, a Germantown, Md.-based satellite broadband unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has signed a deal to provide Chinese satellite service provider ChinaCast with a DirecWay broadband satellite...

Fremont, Calif.-based SCM Microsystems [Nasdaq: SCMM] has signed a contract to provide common interface (CI) modules to CanalDigitaal, a satellite pay TV operator in the Netherlands. The CI modules from...

Nomadix, a public-access solutions provider, has signed a deal with Hughes Network Systems to supply key technology for the company’s Wi-Fi access service. HNS is using Nomadix’s access gateways running...

Meridian IQ, the Overland Park, Kan.-based transportation management subsidiary of Yellow Corp. [Nasdaq: YELL], has acquired GPS USA, the U.S. operations of Hong Kong-based logistics service provider GPS Logistics, for...

The battle for video and high-speed Internet access is here. Find out who is likely to win, who has the greatest challenges, and what opportunities that knowledge will open up...

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG] saw total revenues fall 10 percent in the first six months of 2003, dropping to 642 million euros ($725.5 million) from 712 million...

Intelsat has launched a new broadband network in West Africa, expanding its total number of operational broadband networks worldwide to six. The new West African Ku-band network, offered using the...

Harris Corp. [NYSE: HRS], a Melbourne, Fla.-based multiband satellite communications terminal supplier, has delivered 13 of 28 transit case-configured lightweight multiband satellite terminals (LMST) to the U.S. Marine Corps. The...

iDirect Technologies, a Vienna, Va.-based bi-directional satellite-based IP broadband access solution provider, and Italian infrastructure network provider Netdish have announced the successful launch of two virtual private networks in Italy...

Skycasters, an Akron, Ohio-based satellite Internet service provider, has announced the release of SatVox, a business quality telephone and fax communications technology for broadband satellite Internet users. The technology connects...