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MSOs Respond To FCC Rate Investigation - Multichannel Online
Washington—The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing two years of cable rate information submitted Thursday by 13 companies threatened with monetary fines for noncompliance. The agency, at the direction of chairman Kevin Martin, is ...

Mark Cuban charged with insider trading - Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators today charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading for allegedly using confidential information on a stock sale to avoid more than $750,000 in losses. Cuban disputed the Securities and Exchange ...

Nigerian satellite launched by China loses power - Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) -- A Nigerian communications satellite built and launched by China has been knocked out of service due to a power failure, a spokeswoman for China's launch services provider said Thursday. The Nigerian Communication Satellite, or ...

Nigeria's Chinese-built satellite goes dark - Asia Times
In May 2007, the Nigerian government rejoiced as the Chinese-built Nigeria Communications Satellite - 1 (NIGCOMSAT-1), was sent into orbit by a Chinese rocket at the Xichang launch facility. Nigeria was upbeat and looking forward to 15 years of ...

DataPath(R) to Deploy Satellite Communications on-the-Move Solution ... - Earthtimes
Author : DataPath, Inc. DULUTH, Ga. , Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world, has been awarded a delivery order to manufacture and deploy a satellite ...

To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite - PhysOrg
It's not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the "pico satellite" being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer space — one where ...

Satellite Successfully Observes Polar Mesospheric Clouds - Redorbit.com
The Naval Research Laboratory's Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER) has successfully observed a second northern season of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), which are the Earth's highest clouds. This successful observation ...

Nigeria’s Communications Satellite -staying up or coming down? - Businessday Online
A burst of high level queries and debates will be  kicked up in government and other circles this week regarding the fate, causes and consequences of a now faulty communications satellite which Nigeria launched into orbit last year, at the cost of ...

Nigerian satellite fails in space - BBC News
But on Wednesday Minister of State for Science and Technology Alhassan Zaku told journalists it had lost power and had to be "parked, like you would park a car". "If it wasn't parked and it lost all its power there would be no energy to even move it ...

Iran blocks access to over five million websites - Daily Times
TEHRAN: Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. “The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by ...