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Neural Technologies, a United Kingdom-based technology vendor, is helping U.S. pay-TV operator DirecTV combat fraud. Neural announced June 11 that it had completed the installation of its latest fraud-management system...

CIP Canada Investment Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Communications Investment Partners Ltd., increased its cash offer for Stratos Global Corp. to 7 Canadian dollars ($6.60) per share, increasing the...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a June 8 public notice seeking comment on the proposed merger of licensees Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. The...

The U.S. Air Force has exercised an option on its Alternate Infrared Satellite System (AIRSS) contract with Northrop Grumman Corp. to accelerate the program to a System Design Review (SDR),...

ViaSat Inc. has received a $3.7 million award from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to develop and implement a new enhanced Military UHF satellite communications waveform called the Integrated...

Raytheon Co. has delivered a hyper-spectral imaging sensor developed to demonstrate and assess military applications from satellites launched on demand, the company announced June 11. The ARTEMIS (Advanced Responsive Tactically...

DirecTV Latin America (DTVLA) president Bruce Churchill believes telcos will find it tough in terms of developing IPTV strategies in Latin America, but hopes it can work with telcos the...

The Modern Times Group (MTG), owners of direct-to-home (DTH) platforms in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe, has outlined a number of strategic objectives as it looks to consolidate...

The first of four satellites for Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed constellation was delivered in a June 8 launch aboard a Boeing Delta 2 booster from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Thales...

Sea Launch has concluded its failure investigation and expects its return to flight in October with delivery of Thuraya-3 aboard a Zenit 3SL booster, company spokeswoman Paula Korn said June...