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KVH's "Move Down To Mini-VSAT Broadband" Upgrade Promotion
Middletown RI (SPX) May 05, 2009KVH Industries has announced a major new promotion designed to make it even easier for vessel owners to move from old "big dish" VSAT systems to KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband service and TracPhone V7 hardware. The "Move Down to mini-VSAT Broadband" Upgrade Promotion brings KVH's complete, ultra-reliable maritime satellite communications solution to current VSAT users at special rates, offering ... more imov Messenger Adds Skyhook For Location 
Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2009Skyhook Wireless and mov Software, creators of the imov Messenger application, have announced integration of Skyhook for location-aware instant messaging. imov Messenger is an easy to use IM aggregator application for Windows Mobile. The application brings together GoogleTalk, AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and Jabber/XMPP instant messaging applications. With the addition of location from Skyh ... more Garmin Provides Navigation To Fairline 
Southampton, UK (SPX) May 05, 2009Garmin is delighted to announce that it is providing marine electronic equipment to international luxury performance motor yacht manufacturer Fairline Boats. Fairline, a leading force in the luxury motor yacht market, has been designing and manufacturing boats for more than forty years. Today, the Fairline range includes three distinct marques; the sociable Targa, the Phantom flybridge ser ... more Boeing Completes PDR For Tracking And Data Relay Satellite Series K-L 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 05, 2009Boeing has successfully completed the system-level Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) K-L program, an important design milestone as the program moves toward integration of the TDRS K satellite for NASA. The comprehensive five-day review was held in El Segundo in March and attended by NASA project, program and Headquarters officials. ... more ArcGIS 9.3.1 Unlocks the Potential Of Your GIS 
Redlands CA (SPX) May 05, 2009ArcGIS 9.3.1 helps you create and share modern Web maps that are relevant to your entire organization. This release of ESRI's integrated collection of geographic information system (GIS) software products focuses on improving the performance of dynamic map publishing and increasing the visibility of geographic information. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) May 4, 2009The United States should study a Russian proposal that it share a radio installation in the Central Asian state of Azerbaijan, US envoy Rose Gottemoeller said Monday in an interview with the Interfax agency. "I understood from talking to Russian counterparts that the offer is still on the table," said Gottemoeller, the assistant secretary of state for verification and compliance. "I thin ... more Walker's World: China's growth puzzle 
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2009 The official figures say the Chinese economy, bolstered by the announcement last November of a massive $586 billion stimulus package by the Beijing government, grew in the first quarter of this year at an annual rate of 6.1 percent. The question remains how far those figures can be trusted because some official Chinese statistics have proved questionable in the past and because some cru ... more US, Japan press China on computer rules 
Washington (AFP) May 4, 2009Top US and Japanese trade negotiators pressed China on Monday to scrap rules on foreign computers and appealed against protectionism amid the global slowdown. Toshihiro Nikai, Japan's trade minister, and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said after a meeting in Washington that China should drop its plans to require certification of IT products to be used by the government. Such rules "are ... more Green Star To Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle 
Frankfort KY (SPX) May 04, 2009Green Star Products has announced that within the next four weeks it plans to publicly test its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). The demonstration will take place in Corbin, Kentucky, where the vehicle will be test driven and evaluated by industry representatives. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle will be driven on a simulated city driving test route. The company expects to ... more |
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Kolkata, India (PTI) May 04, 2009The all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT), launched on April 20, has begun sending images, a top official of Indian Space Research Organisation said here on Friday. "The RISAT has begun taking images since two days ago," ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said on the sidelines of an interactive session with members of the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce. He said that the RISAT would ta ... more Swedish Space Completes Acquisition Of Universal Space Network 
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) May 04, 2009The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has received all necessary approvals from the U.S. Government and has completed the acquisition of U.S.-based Universal Space Network (USN), a leader in space operations for telemetry, tracking and control (TT and C) services. USN will operate as a U.S. Corporation and subsidiary of SSC with no change to its operation or organization. With the comp ... more NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 50 Years Of Scientific Excellence 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2009On a clear March day in 1926, in the middle of a snow-covered field in Auburn, Mass., Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard changed exploration forever. Launching from a modified music stand, Goddard's liquid fuel rocket lifted itself 41 feet into the winter sky, flew for two and a half seconds, and landed in the space age. Goddard's dream had become reality. To honor Goddard's achievement an ... more Northern Ice Front Of Wilkins Ice Shelf Is Becoming Unstable 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 04, 2009Following the loss of an ice bridge on the Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf, the northern ice front is now becoming unstable. The first icebergs broke off at this point on 20 April 2009. This was observed by scientists using the TerraSAR-X Earth observation satellite operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). "We anticipate that, over the nex ... more
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