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iSECUREtrac Signs Guadalupe County Contract

iSECUREtrac [ISRE], a provider of Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking services, announced the Guadalupe County Sheriff Office of New Mexico has become one of its newest customers. The agreement calls...

Navman Upgrades Pocket PC Guidance System

Navman unveiled its Navman GPS 4410, an upgrade to the company’s Navman GPS 4400 Pocket PC guidance system. The 4410 includes the latest version of Navman’s navigation software, SmartST V2...

Russian Express AM11 Launched

Alcatel Space announced the successful launch of the Express AM11 satellite on a Proton vehicle from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan last night. The satellites are operated by the...

NAB Shows Industry Responding To Hot Trends

By Paul Dykewicz, PBI Media LLC LAS VEGAS–The annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference is a good barometer of emerging hot trends and technological advances that will impact the...

Spotlight: Vatican Radio Goes Digital

Radio Vaticana, the voice of the Vatican, is the latest radio broadcaster to follow the ongoing trend to initiate a switch from analog to higher-quality digital transmissions. Radio Vaticana programs...

Multichannel TV Shows Stiff Competition

By Jimmy Schaeffler, The Carmel Group The North American multichannel market place has been a remarkably different place since DirecTV launched its first satellite on Dec. 17, 1993, and when...

The Satellite News Financial Ticker

Week of April 16 – 22, 2004 Percentage Change   Symbol April 22 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year toDate Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.67 (13.5) (20.5)...