Thuraya, provider of handheld mobile satellite services, is preparing to operate commercially in Asia-Pacific markets when the Thuraya-3 satellite becomes fully operational.

Thuraya’s expansion towards East Asia will allow it to provide its proven and highly affordable voice, IP and rural telephony services to thousands of private, public and business customers in the densely populated Asian region.
Lift-off took place at the equatorial launch site at 154o West Longitude, making it Sea Launch’s 25th mission. A 72-hour countdown took place for the launch of the 5,180 kg (11,420 lb) Thuraya-3 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit, on its way to a final orbital location of 98.5 degrees East Longitude.

We congratulate Thuraya on the successful launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite!
More information: http://www.thuraya.com/content/thuraya3.html

2007-10-17
IDG Europe AB satcom seminar 2007 >>

2007-08-14
T-20F Soft Case for protecting your T-20F panel >>

2007-04-12
New job vacancies at IDG Europe (Swedish) >>


2007-03-15
GSMK CryptoPhone 300 with encrypted SMS and Voice.
The all-new GSMK CryptoPhone 300, to be unveiled tomorrow at CeBIT 2007 in Hannover, is the first secure telephone that features encrypted voice, encrypted SMS, and an encrypted storage subsystem for contacts, messages, and keys.

THE NEW PRODUCT: The CryptoPhone 300 is a quad-band PDA phone with an auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard, thus allowing for easy and comfortable message entry. The CryptoPhone 300 features a large 2.8" screen and an elegant black color scheme. Its quad-band GSM engine makes the CryptoPhone 300 suitable for truly global use with all of the world's GSM networks.

NEW MESSAGE ENCRYPTION FEATURE: Starting with the new GSMK CryptoPhone 300, GSMK is making short message service (SMS) encryption available for its new products, in addition to encrypted voice. Based on the same strong encryption algorithms used for GSMK CryptoPhone voice encryption (4096-bit Diffie-Hellman mechanism for the initial key exchange, and the hallmark 256-bit AES256 and Twofish message encryption), the CryptoPhone 300 features SMS encryption (regular and long SMS, including self-destructing "eyes only"
short messages) and a fully encrypted storage subsystem for contacts, messages, and keys.

VOICE ENCRYPTION IMPROVEMENTS: On the encrypted voice side, the CryptoPhone 300 also features the new "fast mode" that was introduced with the CryptoPhone G10i. In case of transmission errors caused by poor connections, "fast mode" eliminates delay build-up in bad network coverage conditions and greatly improves overall performance especially on a number of South American and Eastern European GSM networks.

Shipping of the new product will start on May 15.


2007-02-27
IDG Panels on the Moon?
"As part of NASA’s effort to return to the Moon and establish a permanent human presence, the Aerospace Corporation has been asked to collect data on Earth-based systems that are similar or analogous to possible surface systems to be used in a Moon colony. Your Portable Daylight Panels (Manpacks) system was identified as a good candidate for analogy to some of the systems that will enable a lunar colony"

2007-02-23
Thuraya SG-2520 satellite smart phone now available. >>

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