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From 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 MoreThe Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation WorldView-1 satellite, built for DigitalGlobe, launched yesterday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, at 11:35 a.m. PDT aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The launch of the WorldView-1 satellite is poised to make a major contribution towards the advancement of the commercial, remote-sensing industry by providing higher collection capabilities, more frequent revisit time, and greater imaging flexibility.
Read MoreThe newest radio station for the Sky platform is Insight Radio. Providing the satellite uplink, capacity and EPG services will be WRN, the United Kingdom-based TV and radio transmission company. Insight Radio is the radio station of the RNIB and Europe’s first radio station for blind and partially sighted people.
Read MoreAlaska Airlines has announced their plans to launch in-flight wireless Internet service next year based on the company Row 44's satellite-based broadband connectivity solution. The airline will test Row 44's system on a next-generation Boeing 737 aircraft in spring 2008 and, based on the trial's outcome, plans to equip its 114-aircraft fleet.
Read MoreIreland’s National broadcaster, RTE, is purchasing two Newswift satellite antennas from Advent Communications. They will be added to the broadcaster’s already-owned Newswift equipment to increase the size of the satellite communications fleet.
Read MoreEmerging Markets Communications (EMC) has launched a new IP Trunking DVB-S2 platform service for the entire African continent. Benefiting PTTs, ISPs, GSM operators and Carriers operating in Africa, this new service supports Internet and voice trunking, with a guaranteed CIR (Committed Information Rate) and an additional bursting capability over the whole shared outbound carrier.
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