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COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV] has secured a space flight opportunity to demonstrate an advanced AIS data detection capability from space. AIS, or Automatic Identification System, is a VHF broadcast system required aboard major marine vessels to locate and identify ships at sea.
Read MoreStagecoach Cartage and Distribution received approval from the Mexico Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) to operate in Mexico. This marks the start of a yearlong, cross-border demo project allowing U.S. trucking companies to operate in Mexico for the first time.
Read MoreFrom the Hindu Business Line online news service, we learn that VXL Technologies is now set to manufacture temrinals to be installed on fishing boats along the Indian coastline. The order for the terminals comes from the Space Application Center (SAC) in India after successful water trials.
Read MoreWavecom S.A.‘s wireless technology, complete with C-GPS companion chips, has been designed into the KENJI KJ 8800 watercraft tracking terminal. Perhaps you don’t think of mobile assets as benefiting from such devices for theft protection… but realize, any mobile asset has a higher-than-average risk of being ripped off.
Read MoreThe French Ministry of Defense has selected Vizada to provide mobile satellite communications over the next three years (2008-2010). The company has put in place an Inmarsat BGAN-based solution for the French military health department (Service de Santé des Armées).
Read MoreBlue Coat Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ: BCSI] has been selected by SeaMobile (global provider of at-sea communications, connectivity and content services) to implement the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to accelerate email traffic and Web access for passengers using Internet cafés on cruise ships. Blue Coat’s ProxySG appliances accelerate applications, email and Web content and optimize bandwidth usage over satellite links.
Read MoreSES NEW SKIES, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], is teaming with SeaMobile’s Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) product group for extensive field tests of new, miniaturized VSAT antennas. The companies will test two new 60cm VSAT antennas.
Read MoreStratos Global Corp. [TSX: SGB] has begun deployment of its AmosConnect Crew service on 34 vessels managed by Reederei Blue Star GmbH [Blue Star]. Blue Star is a subsidiary of Maersk, the world's largest shipping company. The service enables crew members at sea to stay in contact with home at low-cost rates via phone, SMS, and email.
Read MoreKVH Industries, Inc., [NASDAQ: KVHI) announced Mackay Communications, Inc., will begin offering the new KVH TracPhone V7 with mini-VSAT Broadband service as its exclusive maritime VSAT (very small aperture terminal) solution. The new mini-VSAT Broadband service uses sophisticated spread spectrum technology to provide vessels with data reception rates as fast as 2 Mbps and data transmission rates as fast as 512 Kbps via the 24" KVH TracPhone V7.
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