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Challenger Accepts Skype Hype and Vonage Tonage With Own mVoIP

August 24, 2007 / Satellite Communications

Challenger Mobile has announced enhancements to the company’s platform to help mobile operators, wireless ISPs, and related service providers deliver their own branded Mobile VoIP services to subscribers, all the while enjoying a fast time-to-market and low cost of entry. Challenger's white-label Mobile VoIP (mVoIP) platform allows subscribers to place calls from their mobiles over the Internet, using a WiFi, GPRS or 3G connection.

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General Dynamics’ STT & UHST For JNN-N, Acronymically Speaking

August 24, 2007 / MILSATCOM

General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies is the recipient of a US$24 million contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J. The company will provide specialized satellite communications earth terminals and support services for the Joint Network Node-Network (JNN-N) program, now known as Increment One of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T).

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OmniGlobe Dives Into Expansion Waters With Financing

August 24, 2007 / Funding & Venture Capital

OmniGlobe Networks, Inc. has received $3 million in financing from the Bank of Montreal (BMO), the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), and FIER CPVC Montreal L.P. OmniGlobe is a global telecommunications company that provides affordable satellite and WiMAX broadband Internet and VoIP services to various geographic regions around the world where terrestrial telecommunications are unavailable, unreliable, or too expensive.

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Galileo Satellite Launch Is Delayed

August 23, 2007 / Launch Schedule & Calendars

Due to “conflicts” with the launch of a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Russia, the launch of the Galileo navigation satellite set for liftoff later this year has now been allegedly delayed. No hint of financial distresss, apparently, as a reason for such a halting decision.

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GMV Presents Payload Package

August 22, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

GMV, a privately-held satellite ground segment software company, has launched SmartRings 2.0. This is the company’s latest version of its telecommunications satellite payload reconfiguration tool, SmartRings, which offers reconfiguration management of telecommunication satellite payloads.

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Asset Acumen Via GE

August 22, 2007 / Data Processing & AI/ML

GE Equipment Services today introduced VeriWise RAIL and VeriWise INTERMODAL. These are remote asset management solutions that provide customers with on-demand visibility into the status of their fleet and the cargo it carries.

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