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TechStart, LLC has debuted their Rapid Deployment Communications (RDC) Flyaway Kit (TSL-100RDC). The kit is based on the ICG Core Iridium System (CIS-100) and offers a ready-to-go voice and data communications management system for use on the move, literally anywhere on the planet.
Read MoreStratos Global Corp. [TSX: SGB] has unveiled their commercial availability of Inmarsat's Satellite Phone Services in mobile, fixed-land and fixed-maritime packages. Customers using Inmarsat Satellite Phone Services from Stratos will benefit from the Stratos Advantage, a wide range of value-added services that ensure optimal communications performance and cost efficiency.
Read MoreJean-Robert Barallon is the new Vice-President of Sales at Newtec, and he brings his more than 30 years of experience to the firm to further consolidate its presence in the Americas. Jean-Robert has enjoyed success in sales, marketing operations, mergers and acquisitions as well as teleport management.
Read MoreAgilent Technologies Inc. [NYSE: A] is going to showcase their newest test and measurement solutions for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) at the upcoming 2007 European Microwave Conference, Pavilion 908. This event will take place during European Microwave Week in Munich, Germany, Oct. 8-12.
Read MoreThe news blurted out the information early yesterday morning during the business report — Nokia is going to acquire NAVTEQ for an aggregate purchase price of about $8.1 billion (€5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (€5.4 billion) of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. That works out to about $78 per each share of NATBEQ, including outstanding options.
Read MoreTV One has appointed Steven Mattingly as the company’s Managing Director of TV One Ltd after he successfully headed up TV One’s European Offices as their General Manager for more than two years.
Read MoreVerizon Business will provide a new custom satellite network to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The network will provide reliability and cost-effective delivery of voice and high-speed data to areas where wireline or wireless access is unavailable or too costly. Formerly known as a VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) satellite system, point-to-point communications for about 5,000 Postal Service sites in the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico, and backup connectivity for a number of larger USPS sites, will be available.
Read MoreFive members of the National Cosmic Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NCARK), led by their Chairman of the space agency Talghat Mussabayev, traveled to India to chat with the folk at the Indian Space Research Organization and their chairman, G. Madhavan Nair and other execs. Kazakhstan is the home of the Baikonur satellite launch facility.
Read MoreOctober has arrived and the first tastes of fall imbue our senses. And, on the last two days of the month, our editorial offices relished the first significant snowfall of the season…
Read MoreThe compatibility of the final Jules Verne Automatic Transfer Vehicle (ATV) flight software has been successfully tested for the first time in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA). Additionally, the remainders of the vast International Space Station (ISS) flight software by global teams at the NASA Software Verification Facility (SVF) in Houston were also completely tested.
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