Top Executives at Gilat Step Down
Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF] last week announced the resignations of its co-founders, Chairman and CEO Yoel Gat and President Amiram Levinberg. The resignations will take effect at the April meeting...
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FCC Chairman Powell Leads Panel On Emergency Services
Leaders from the satellite, telecommunications, Internet service and cable industries are considering ways to safeguard services in the event of an attack on the U.S. communications infrastructure. Recommendations were offered...
Intelsat Forms Three New Business Units
Intelsat has formed three business units that report to President and COO Ramu Potarazu. A new business unit, Data, Carrier & Internet, will be led by John Stanton and concentrate...
Canal Digital CEO Looks For Interactive Progress
Nordic pay-TV operator Canal Digital expects to derive further revenues from interactive services in 2003 through a range of new service offerings. Canal Digital ended the year with just over...
Fusion To Buy $6M In iSecureTrac Stock
ISecureTrac [OTC: ISRE], a developer of Global Positioning Systems for tracking and monitoring, has signed a common stock purchase agreement with Fusion Capital Fund II, an institutional investor. The agreement...
Motorola, IBM Team On A-GPS Receiver
Motorola [NYSE: MOT] and IBM Microelectronics are teaming to develop Motorola Instant GPS, a single-chip, assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS) receiver. Due to its small stature, the device can add...
DirecTV Loses Yankees Advantage In Battle With Cablevision
DirecTV has lost a marketing advantage it held in 2002 in many parts of New York when a major cable TV operator could not reach an agreement with the Yes...
Sarantel Launches Surface Mount GPS Antenna
U.K. antenna supplier Sarantel announced a surface mount version of its GeoHelix miniature Global Positioning System antenna. Sarantel’s (Wellingborough, England) GeoHelix-S can be mounted directly onto GPS circuit boards, simplifying...
Canadian Weather Service Modernization Taps Into U.S. Satellites
The Canadian government is investing $75 million over five years that will allow the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) to improve the quality of its forecasts and its service to...
InterWAVE Gets $1.6M Satellite Services Contract From Vodacom
InterWAVE Communications International [Nasdaq:IWAV] has received a $1.6 million agreement with Vodacom Congo for a GSM network with an advanced satellite compression capabilities. InterWAVE said the network expects to provide...