Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning two rocket launches over the next few days. The first, likely on August 28th, is an Earth observation satellite for Argentina, SAOCOM 1B. What will be unusual is that Musk’s team is hoping to bring the rocket’s first stage directly back to Earth and land the booster stage at Cape […]
Smart Home Services specialist Plume and the Connected Home Division of media and entertainment technologist Technicolor are collaborating to expand rapidly the availability of advanced Smart Home Services to broadband providers and their subscribers. The partnership will enable Technicolor Connected Home to enrich its broadband Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) portfolio with Plume’s Consumer Experience Management […]
It will cost almost $500 million to refurbish the Sea Launch floating rocket launch platform according to reports. Russia’s deputy prime minister, Yuri Borisov, recalled that before the floating spaceport left its port at Long Beach, California, the US – in accordance with its laws – removed all equipment from the command ship and the […]
Researchers from Avast’s IoT Labs have discovered serious security flaws in two popular TV set-top boxes which could allow cybercriminals to store malware on the devices for the purposes of launching botnet attacks or ransomware using a weather forecast service. The boxes under the microscope are manufactured by consumer electronics companies Thomson and Philips. The […]
Virgin Media has has announced a new broadband service targeted specifically at customers facing financial difficulty and uncertainty in these challenging times. The broadband-only plan, called ‘Virgin Media Essential Broadband’, will be available to those receiving Universal Credit and will come with a speed of 15 Mbps and a fixed price of £15 per month, […]
Further to the announcement that Sky Arts, the UK’s only channel dedicated to arts and culture, will be made available to everyone, Sky has confirmed a launch date, as well as programming and EPG details. Sky Arts will join DTT platform Freeview on September 17th on channel number 11. According to Sky, the prominent channel […]
The Jeff Bezos-backed Project Kuiper will see investment topping $10 billion, says Chris Quilty, senior researcher at Florida-based Quilty Analytics, in the firm’s latest Satcom Quarterly Briefing. The end result, for broadband consumers, could be impressive. Quilty is blunt, saying that Amazon’s involvement in the plan to launch 3236 satellites to Low Earth orbit (LEO) […]
Virgin Media Ireland has launched a significant integrated marketing campaign to coincide with the arrival of their 1Gb broadband speed offering across their entire network. The campaign, entitled ‘Speed Obsessed’ was created by Publicis and will run for seven weeks up across all national radio broadcasters including 2FM, Today FM, Newstalk, FM104, Red FM, KFM, […]
The official Committee of OneWeb’s unsecured creditors is objecting to the current Chapter 11 exit reorganisation plan for OneWeb. In a filing to the US Bankruptcy Court they argue that the disclosure statement from OneWeb “lacks adequate information of particular importance to the unsecured creditors.” The submission to the Court stresses that they are in […]
Scotland’s ‘Space hub Sutherland’ has gained planning approval to build the rocket launch facility. Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) intends to create Space Hub Sutherland on land owned by Melness Crofters Estate on the A’ Mhòine peninsula, south of Tongue. HIE had submitted plans in February this year, including an extensive environmental impact […]