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Satellite Deals Fuel Pace Recovery

Pace Micro Technology [London: PIC: L] has signed a trio of deals with satellite pay-TV operators that could signal a reversal of fortunes for the UK set-top box (STB) manufacturer....

Transponder Monitor

72 degreesE: PAS 4 D Feed traffic from/to ART’s Beirut bureau uses 11532 MHz vertical, SR 5632, FEC 3/4, VPID 308, APID 256, ID:’ART-BEIRUT’ in encoded MPEG-2. 12727 MHz vertical,...

Inforetech, Asian GPS Deal

Inforetech Wireless Technology [OTCBB: WYRE], a Vancouver, British Columbia-based supplier of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology for the golf industry, has concluded a five-year distribution agreement with Asian GPS Golf...

New Launch Date for Rosetta

The Rosetta comet exploration spacecraft, the launch of which was delayed due to problems with the Ariane 5 rocket, will now be sent to rendezvous with Comet Churyumov- Gerasimenko instead...

GlobeCast Signs Abu Dhabi

GlobeCast, a satellite transmission unit of France Telecom [NYSE: FTE], has signed a long-term agreement with Abu Dhabi TV – the satellite channel of Emirates Media – to provide satellite...

To The Multimedia Victor Go The Spoils

By Jimmy Schaeffler There’s another battle brewing in the seven-year-old U.S. satellite TV war between Direct TV and EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH]. That battle is the threatened U.S. invasion by...