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Week of May 9 – 15, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol May 15 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.66 27.7 38.3...
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Smith Micro Supplies Kits
Smith Micro Software [Nasdaq: SMSI], a Aliso Viejo, Calif. -based developer of software and service communications for the wireless market, has agreed to supply data connectivity accessory kits to Thuraya...
Flight Explorer, Blue Sky Partner
Flight Explorer, Arlington, Va.- based provider of Internet-based flight tracking and information systems, and Blue Sky Network, a La Jolla, Calif.-based satellite communications company, are partnering to provide worldwide satellite-based...
AGS, JSAT Ink Regional Pact
Americom Government Services (AGS) and Japan’s JSAT Corp. (JSAT) have signed a business collaboration agreement to support each company’s pursuit and execution of U.S. government-related satellite-based communications services in the...
Delphi Signs Deal With Wal-Mart
Delphi Product & Service Solutions, a unit of Delphi Corp. [NYSE: DPH], has signed up mass retailer Wal-Mart [NYSE: WMT] to sell Delphi XM SKYFi radios and other products in...
EMS Delivers Part for DoD System
EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] said it has delivered ahead of schedule an engineering model of the beam-forming network (BFN) for the U.S. Department of Defense’s advanced EHF satellite system. The...
Global Radio Failure Leaves Void
While satellite radio is showing signs of taking off in the United States, it has so far sputtered in Europe. As unmistakable proof, Luxembourg-based satellite radio hopeful Global Radio recently...
Conexant Launches MPEG-2 Units
Conexant Systems [Nasdaq: CNXT], a Newport Beach, Calif.-based provider of semiconductor systems for communications applications, has introduced a family of MPEG-2 audio/ video decoders for cable, satellite and terrestrial set-top...
XM Builds Financial Momentum
Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio’s [Nasdaq: XMSR] first-quarter results were well received by Wall Street. XM Chairman Gary Parsons boasted during a May 8 conference call that his company’s streak...
MDA Signs RADARSAT Customer
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [TSX: MDA] announced May 5 that an unidentified customer will purchase satellite imagery from MDA’s RADARSAT International subsidiary for land use mapping and monitoring purposes. The...