Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? [holds up one finger]
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit.
- City Slicker
LG and Samsung have joined forces to develop a single standard for mobile digital television using broadcaster’s DTV signals. The two companies [...]
The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a new effort that could deliver a key building block for wireless sensor networks, says EE Times. The Routing Over Low-power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) group aims to define a standard for Internet Protocol as early as next summer.
Sensor networks may be the next big thing. Companies [...]
A digital satellite television service from broadcasters ITV and the BBC, called Freesat, launched across Britain on Tuesday. It offers high definition programming and more than 80 channels for no monthly fee.
Freesat will be available in 98 percent of households. It requires a satellite receiver and settop box. Set-top box prices will start from 49 [...]
A $20 million, 28-mile prototype ‘virtual’ fence built by Boeing, and developed to thwart illegal immigration along the Mexico-U.S. border hasn’t met border control agents’ needs, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported.
However, the federal government has no plans to scrap the program as recently reported by the mainstream press, said Department of Homeland Security [...]
ICO G1, the largest commercial satellite launched to date, today announced the successful deployment of the ICO G1 satellite’s large antenna reflector.
ICO G1 will deliver mobile interactive media services, like mobile video, interactive navigation and emergency communications services to consumers. The Harris antenna reflector enables the ICO satellite to focus 2 GHz S-band signals on [...]
The fate of geo stationary satellite AMC-14 is still in limbo for the Luxembourg-based SES group and its underwriters.
SpaceDaily has learned that SES has backtracked on their original plan to ditch the Lockheed Martin built A2100 satellite, and is trying to offload the spacecraft to the DOD before an SES competitor or even one of [...]
DISH Network (Echostar) and Alcatel-Lucent today announced that DISH Network will test the DVB-SH mobile broadcast technology in the United States. The ultimate objective is to validate the performance and cost-efficiency of the DVB-SH standard.
The DVB-SH standard (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds), is an evolution of DVB-H mobile television standard, and has [...]
Vietnam launched its first satellite over the weekend to provide telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet links across the country.
Vinasat-1 was carried into space aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana Friday evening.
Also launched from the rocket, was Star One C2 with a payload of 28 C-band transponders, 16 Ku-band transponders [...]
The heaviest payload ever launched by an Atlas rocket, Craig McCaw’s ICO G-1 (pdf), achieved successful separation today (video), one of the biggest gambles yet for the telecom entrepreneur, as Telephony Online reports. Ground controllers have acquired the first signals from the ICO G1 spacecraft and delivered the ICO G1 within one nautical mile of [...]
Yuri’s Night, an organization dedicated to forwarding the cause of space exploration is celebrating the anniversaries of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned spaceflight this Saturday night. Yuri’s Night 2008 registered 189 events in 49 countries.
“Yuri’s Night is about enabling everyone on the planet connect with space,” said Loretta Whitesides, Yuri’s Night Co-founder. “It is [...]
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