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Satellite Radio Is Dead (IT Management)
I hate to say it, but somebody has to: Satellite radio will come crashing down to Earth within the next two years. The newly merged Sirius XM Radio is already living on borrowed time -- and borrowed money -- and simply will not and cannot survive.
Move Networks, PermissionTV Team On Web Video (Broadcasting and Cable)
Will target mid-tier media companies, new video players.
South Africa: Whatever Happened to Satellite TV Competition? (AllAfrica.com)
A YEAR after new satellite TV licences were awarded, MultiChoice's DStv is still the sole operator, and competition seems a distant dream. This raises the question: is the market regulated effectively?
Yemeni territorial waters under satellite (Yemen Times Online)
An official at the Fish Wealth Ministry announced on Tuesday 10 June that the ministry would start soon applying a new surveillance system for monitoring local and foreign boats and ships fishing in Yemen’s territorial waters.
Paper: Oi eyes Sky unit to complement satellite portfolio - Brazil (Business News Americas)
Brazilian telecoms operator Oi (NYSE: TNE) is considering acquiring the local unit of satellite TV firm Sky, newspaper Folha de S Paulo reported. Folha quoted an insider at Brazilian broadcaster Globo, holder of 26% of Sky Brasil shares, as saying that the deal is only a matter of time.
Intelsat Honors Africas Leading Satellite Video, Voice and Data Companies (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa----Intelsat, Ltd., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced the recipients of its 2008 Intelsat Excellence Awards for the Africa Region.
Virtual immortality (Baltimore Sun)
Martine Rothblatt envisions you uploading a digital version of yourself that could live forever online. It's not her first far-out idea. Martine Rothblatt, a millionaire entrepreneur who launched both Sirius Satellite Radio and one of Maryland's largest biotech companies, envisions you uploading a digital version of yourself that could live forever online. It's not her first far-out idea. ...
Nigeria: Africa's First Communications Satellite Fails (AllAfrica.com)
Africa's first communications satellite has suffered an energy failure just 18 months after its launch.
Africa's first communications satellite fails (SciDev.net)
[ABUJA] Africa's first communications satellite has suffered an energy failure just 18 months after its launch. The solar panels have malfunctioned on the Chinese-manufactured satellite according to Alhassan Zaku, Nigeria's minister of state for science and technology.
Mexican companies join race for Chinese market (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Armed with tortillas and telenovelas, Mexican companies that have relied on trade ties to the U.S. are heading to China, challenging old images of a country that many Mexicans consider a rival for foreign investment and jobs.