COMSAT's Planet 1 brings the power of satellite communications down to a personal level. COMSAT'S portable technology provides users with the capability to communicate from anywhere in the world, such as from mountain tops and ships. American Institutes for Research worked with COMSAT and their industrial design consultant to design...
Practical Sailor says it concisely: "Today, the life raft's primary mission is no longer to serve as means of navigating to safety, but rather a platform from which to signal for help." Used to be that, if your sailboat sunk, you wanted a life raft...
A Provo company that sells Dish Network Corp.'s satellite TV services has agreed to pay a $75,000 fine for hanging up on customers, federal regulators said Tuesday. Provo-based Star Satellite LLC will pay $75,000 after the company was accused of making telemarketing calls that failed to connect...
OREM -- A 34-year-old Bountiful woman was lifted out of American Fork Canyon Friday by helicopter after she was stabbed in the stomach by a tree branch. The woman had been a passenger in a two-person all-terrain vehicle when she and the driver hit a dead tree...
ANALYSIS Details of the new iPhone's improvements upon its wildly successful predecessor have long been circulating online: it connects to the internet at 3G speeds, it comes with satellite navigation built in and no longer has a recessed headphone socket. Some people will note that this is...
- Protect Your Vehicle from "Smash and Grab Crimes" with the AS-1 - ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- SentryRSafe, the world leader in residential and small office security-storage containers, today announced its newest product, the AS-1 autosafeR, to protect valuables inside a vehicle from "smash and...
Delivers HeliSAT3 Repeater System to NAVAIR HOUSTON -- Echo Satellite Communications, Inc. (Other OTC:ECSC), a leading global provider of wireless satellite communications products and services, announced today that it has shipped its first order to Naval Air Systems Command NAVAIR for a HeliSAT3 customized Iridium repeater system. HeliSAT3...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not just to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors' ability to communicate. Known as "Alliance," it began with a satellite phone call in...
WCC Provides 20 Percent Discount to AAA Members for Iridium Satellite Communication Rentals CHANDLER, Ariz. -- It's 115 degrees under the glaring sun and your car has stalled on a dirt road in a remote Arizona desert. You try to call for help, but your cell phone doesn't...
WorldcueR Global Control Center enhancement allows two-way SMS, voice and e-mail communication and conference bridge capabilities ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, a leading provider of global intelligence and business resiliency services, today announced the launch of WorldcueR Critical ContactSM, an enhancement to...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD TAP Portugal, the Portuguese national air carrier, and OnAir, a telecomms company owned by Airbus and SITA which was created to provide telecomms services aboard passenger aircraft, announced on 2 July that commercial trials of the OnAir inflight passenger communications system will...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-2 July 2008-TAP and OnAir start trials of airborne mobile phone serviceC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com TAP Portugal, the Portuguese national air carrier, and OnAir, a telecomms company owned by Airbus and SITA which was created to provide telecomms services aboard passenger aircraft, announced on 2 July that...
BEIJING, July 2 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd. the leading provider of conditional access CA systems to mainland China's growing digital television market today announced that the Company has been designated as a mobile TV solution developer by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television...
New agreement between KVH and ViaSat will expand geographic coverage of popular maritime service and compact TracPhone antennas MIDDLETOWN, R.I., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a move to offer faster, more affordable broadband connections to a growing market of leisure, commercial, and government vessels worldwide, KVH Industries,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Several months ago, NSWNA member Kathryn Halley felt a need to leave Westmead Hospital and take her nursing skills to those in dire need in Asia. She joined Australian aid organisation Partners Relief and Development Australia PRDA and headed to Thailand--arriving just as Cyclone...
LOS ANGELES -- Mojix today announced the receipt of distinguished engineering honors for two members of the Mojix Technical Advisory Board. The Board is comprised of a group of experts in pioneering communications technologies including coding and information theory, antenna and array design, and RFIC design, who work closely with...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-20 June 2008-New Tiger Power introduced by Link MicrotekC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com On 20 June, Link Microtek, a supplier of RF and microwave components, introduced the Tiger TGP-A series of power dividers. The TGP-A series provides models for a broad range of commercial and military...
States around the nation are quickly passing a law requiring people to use hands-free phones behind the wheel. California's law will take effect on July 1 and will require drivers to use hands-free devices when dialing and driving. The new law also bans anyone under 18 from using a cell...
:: ATLANTIC CROSSING Four British rowers were rescued after their boat capsized as they attempted to cross the Atlantic for charity. Chris Jenkins, 43, Tim Garrent, 26, Wayne Davey, 30, and Joby Newton, 19, were two weeks and 650 miles into their journey from New York to...
When "E.T." wants to phone home, it's endearing. When a family member wants to do the same, it's a whole other story. That story was told in a staged reading here of "Satellite Parking," presented by the Administrative Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association on...
