E-letter: Briefs

CASBAA Re-elects Chairman; adds Disney Executive as Member The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has re-elected Marcel Fenez, global director of entertainment and media practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers,...

Arinc Integrates Broadband on Boeing Business Jet Arinc. Inc. has completed the first integration and testing of eXchange with Service by SKYLink on a Boeing Business Jet. The installation combines...

Boeing, U.S. Air Force Receive U.S. Military Excellence Award for WGS Boeing and the U.S. Air Force received a U.S. Department of Defense “Top 5” excellence award for systems engineering...

[Satellite TODAY 02-11-10] Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with French and Italian space agencies CNES and ASI, to develop, construct, test and deliver in orbit a broadband civil...

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded three indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for Commercial Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (COMSAR) imagery, data products, and direct downlink services, the...

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] Irdeto has linked-up with Humax to develop a secure HD set-top box for the Middle East region, the two companies announced Dec. 29.       The set-top box,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] SatMax Corp. signed a new agreement with Houston-based TLC Engineering, SatMax announced Dec. 30.     TLC will offer the SatMax line of satellite communications extenders to U.S....

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] There will be no Satellite TODAY Daily News Feed on Jan. 1, due to the New Year’s Day holiday. We will resume our normal publication schedule on...

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] Although the number of households with antennas in the U.S. fell slightly in the last year, about 11 percent of U.S. households, or about 13 million homes,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] CBS and Walt Disney are considering a deal with Apple to join forces in order to create an iTunes subscription-based service for online video, The Wall Street...