Author: Staff Writer

The U.S. Air Force just deployed technology designed to jam satellite transmissions from enemy satellites. According to reports, the ground-based technology can knock out transmissions using electromagnetic radio frequency energy...

A new portable Global Positioning System (GPS) unit with as much as 300 percent more battery power will be available commercially this month through Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Automotive Capital Group Inc....

Conax, a leading European-based Conditional Access (CA) supplier, announced two key appointments and it hopes to drive more revenues out of the Asia Pacific market. It has created a new...

Honeywell [HON] rolled out a 150-nanometer, 15-million-gate integrated circuit (IC) technology it says exponentially increases speed and bandwidth capabilities for processing and transmitting data in aerospace systems, including space satellites...

by Nick Mitsis As the global commercial satellite industry enters the final months of 2004, business executives are examining which of the undertaken ventures worked and what strategic objectives they...

BT Broadcast Services, the Americas, the media and satellite solutions arm of BT, said that Entravision Communications Corp.-owned WVEN-TV purchased a BT Satnet unit. Satnet is BT’s fully automated satellite...

Wall Street can be fickle in picking the financial performance measures it uses to evaluate publicly traded companies. For satellite radio companies, the focus right now is on notching subscriber...

by Gerry Oberst The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is in the midst of a multi year World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), with a major conference planned in Tunisia next...

The Netherlands-based New Skies Satellites NV [NSK], a global satellite operator, will be sold to affiliates of The Blackstone Group, a private investment firm, after receiving approval from the U.S....

By Nick Mitsis Today’s broadcaster is highly sophisticated, educated on satellite products and services and expects more from a contract than mere satellite space. Many content service providers within the...