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by Gerry Oberst Part of the “fiction” in science fiction is the apparent ease with which advanced civilizations, or even the near future of our own civilization, can regulate the...

by Armand Musey As DBS subscriber growth slows, DirecTV’s dependence on retail distribution is becoming increasingly expensive. We estimate that cost inflation in the retail channel has caused DirecTV’s subscriber...

by Clayton Mowry A good friend of mine told me recently that in the interest of efficiency, she had actually developed an organizational chart to divide up her family’s chores...

Innovation in action: that’s the best way to describe today’s private business networks. Whether wholly-owned, or leased from space segment suppliers, these corporate-run systems are finding new ways not just...

In the week that Arianespace reported its first-ever loss in 20 years of operations, an industry report states that there is a capacity and manufacturing glut. “New satellites with transmission...

In line with our sister companies, Phillips Business Information and The Phillips Group, Phillips Global Media, publisher of Interspace, is rebranding as PBI Media. The name will be introduced across...

The future of horseracing consortium Go Racing is in serious doubt after the collapse of talks with the British Horseracing Board (BHB) over the supply of pre-race data. The Go...

California-based middleware company OpenTV has bought struggling interactive specialist Static, which amongst other assets owns TV entertainment service Playjam. The deal sees OpenTV acquire all of Static’s shares in a...

BSkyB will delay introducing its second-generation PVR digibox until a ‘hard launch’ now scheduled for Christmas this year. This is the second delay for the Pace Micro Technology-built XTV box....

Nobis TV, a new German teleshopping and product presentational channel, will launch in both analogue and digital on Astra (19.2 degrees East) on September 1. The service, which is based...