American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband.
The world’s largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New [...]
Inmarsat-4 (F3) - one of the biggest commercial satellites ever built - was successfully launched by a Russian Proton Breeze M rocket today. The F3 satellite, operated by Inmarsat, will complete the firm’s globe-spanning, 3-satellite broadband network. Each I-4 satellite can generate 19 wide beams and more than 200 spot beams using its giant unfurlable [...]
NASA plans to bomb the moon to find water, explains Popular Mechanics.
A team of NASA and Northrop-Grumman engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in February or March of 2009, by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater. The LCROSS spacecraft, (for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite), would remain attached [...]
TMF Associates, a Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) consulting firm, today released its analysis of the proposed Skyterra/Inmarsat merger, and an updated profile of Iridium.
Tim Farrar, author of the research, commented, “Doubts have grown over the last year about whether the re-use of MSS spectrum in terrestrial networks, referred to as Ancillary Terrestrial Components or ATC, [...]
China Mobile, one of the Olympic sponsors, has built TD-SCDMA networks in six key Olympic host cites, notes Market Watch.
The Olympic handsets feature dual mode GSM/TD-SCDMA standards and come with chips for satellite TV, using China’s Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting. It’s similar to Europe’s DVB-SH standard for digital video broadcast. It uses both satellites and [...]
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The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing Tuesday, August 5. The last torchbearer lit the fire cauldron at the historic Temple of Heaven in Beijing, marking the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (NBC Olympics, NY Times Event Tracker, Sound Slides, Gigapixel images and Olympic Theme, MP-3).
The Opening Ceremony of the [...]
Now that the satellite radio merger between Sirius and XM is nearly a done deal, satellite tv competitors Dish Network (13 million customers) and DirectTV (16.32 million subscribers), are weighing another attempt to merge, says The Wall Street Journal (on-line edition).
No formal proposal has been made, notes Reuters, but Dish executives and DirecTV representatives have [...]
Guido: Could you choose one single thing, and be faithful to it? Could you make it the one thing that gives your life meaning… just because you believe in it? Could you do that?”
Claudia: I don’t know… could you?”
Guido: No, the character I’m thinking of couldn’t. He wants to possess and devour everything. He can’t [...]
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is developing a pilot project to broadcast CNN at Long Island Rail Road or subway stations. The service should be available as early as next year.
CNN has agreed to outfit six stations systemwide with the screens, and to foot the bill, over the next 12 to 18 months. It’s similar [...]
Harbinger Capital today offered to front Skyterra $500 million to launch two satellites, says GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham. The private equity firm is also planning to push for a deal to acquire Inmarsat, according to Higginbotham. Harbinger already owns 28.8 percent of Inmarsat’s stock.
Harbinger is apparently confident that the FCC will look favorably on [...]
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