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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...

A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-built Titan IV B rocket lifted off Sept. 9 at 12:29 a.m. EDT carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance...

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...

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES Astra has signed five new contracts to expand the provision of Astra one-way satellite broadband service to additional territories in Europe and North Africa. The company...

Singapore-based InfoWave has won a contract to equip 5,000 Singapore taxis with in-vehicle touch screen devices that use GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) data and voice communications, coupled with GPS...

SkyFrames [OTC: SKYU] has signed an agreement with ComGuard CTS to provide high-end VSAT equipment and broadband Internet services to ComGuard’s operations in remote areas of Canada. Financial terms of...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble [Nasdaq: TRMB] has introduced its smallest embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for timing applications – – the Lassen PT module. The Lassen PT modules will add...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has selected Alcatel Space, a unit of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA] to supply a multi-million payload for a satellite Boeing is build for XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq:...

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...

Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has signed a three-year agreement with Canadian satellite operator Telesat to provide technical support for Telesat’s telecommunications and broadcasting services...