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Mumbai Attacks Show India's Technology ShortcomingsOpen in New Window
"Indian police are grappling with GPS, satellite phones and Google Earth images on the trail of the Mumbai attackers and finding themselves hobbled by technological inadequacy." read more »
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Ariane 5 greenlights fat pipe net satelliteOpen in New Window
"A California broadcast satellite provider has inked a deal with Arianespace to launch the highest-ever-capacity commercial internet satellite into orbit over North America." read more »
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US satellite returns first hi-res snapOpen in New Window
GeoEye has released the first picture from GeoEye-1. GeoEye's CEO, Bill Schuster, states that the satellite is "an excellent fit to meet the US Government's important requirements for mapping and read more »
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Google-focused satellite enters orbitOpen in New Window
"The GeoEye-1 satellite that launched into orbit Saturday is on a mission from Google.The GeoEye-1 is part of the NextView program of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a dot-mil orga read more »
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Google Earth to license new satellite imageryOpen in New Window
"Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one..." read more »
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Spectra Logic enters de-dupe VTL marketOpen in New Window
Kevin Komiega reports, "There's a new player in the world of de-duplicating virtual tape libraries (VTLs). Spectra Logic has inked a deal with FalconStor Software to add VTL and data de-duplication capabilities to the Spectra Logic family of disk-based storage appliances." read more »
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