Author: Staff Writer

Week of Feb. 27 – March 4, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol March 4 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.44 3.0...

Geographic Data Technology (GDT), a Lebanon, N.H.-based map database company, and Boston’s Teletype, a GPS technology provider, have teamed to turn GPS/Java- enabled wireless phones into tracking devices, giving both...

West Coast retail customers who shop at Good Guys have been enjoying in-car TV via the TracVision5, made by KVH Industries [KVHI], a Middletown, R.I.-based satellite company. KVH used a...

ISECUREtrac [ISRE], an Omaha, Neb.-based Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking service, signed a three-year agreement with Pennsylvania Adult Probation and Parole to supply the county with its tracNET24 criminal-justice tracking...

New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] and XM Satellite Radio [XMSR], two U.S. satellite radio service providers, announced their services will be available as factory-installed equipment or dealer-installed options beginning...

Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF] president and CEO Oren Most is gearing up the company for the launch of its SkyEdge family of products later in the year. Gilat claims this...

SBC Communications [SBC] and EchoStar Communications [DISH] launched a combined SBC/DISH Network satellite TV service across the SBC service area that spans 13 states and 55 million telephone lines. The...

ISECUREtrac [ISRE], an Omaha, Neb.-based provider of GPS tracking services, has received private placement funding of $5 million from an undisclosed investment group. Proceeds from the placement will be used...

Hughes Network Systems [GMH], a Germantown, Md.-based satellite broadband network services provider, will promote the implementation of the IPoS (Internet Protocol over Satellite) standard through a multi-tiered licensing program that...

Robust growth clearly is possible for satellite operators doing business in comparatively weak Latin America, according to a panel of speakers at Satellite 2004 this week in Washington, D.C. “Latin...