Author: Staff Writer

Marlink Signs Up Customers

By | June 9, 2003
Marlink, a unit of Norway’s Telenor [Nasdaq: TELN] Satellite Services, last week announced a number of deals to provide maritime satellite communications services to customers. Gas and oil company Royal...

Satellites Help With Earthquake

By | June 9, 2003
In response to the earthquake in Algiers last month, France Telecom [NYSE: FTE] Mobile Satellite Communications’ subsidiary TDCom has deployed a “telecom center” in Zemouri, a town affected by the...

EMS Signs Up Inmarsat Dealers

By | June 9, 2003
EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has signed distribution agreements with EMS SATCOM and an additional group of business partners for the sale of Inmarsat satellite terminals. The new business partners signed...

Lawrence Livermore Tasks SkyFrames

By | June 9, 2003
SkyFrames [OTC BB: SKYU], a Costa Mesa, Calif.-based provider of satellite broadband Internet services, has signed a contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to provide satellite broadband service for...

iDirect Software Boosts Efficiency

By | June 9, 2003
iDirect Technologies, a Reston, Va.-based company that develops broadband IP hardware and software, has unveiled its latest software – iDS v.3.2 – providing two-way Internet connections via satellite. The new...

Satellites Monitor Rain Forests

By | June 9, 2003
The European Space Agency is providing data from its Earth observation satellites to monitor the tropical forests in French Guiana and help the French government meet its obligations under the...