Opera Mini crosses 35 million users, processes 2 petabytes of data per month according to newest State of the Mobile Web report
No need to fear the monthly mobile bill anymore: consumers in the top ten countries save approximately 8.1 billion USD per year using Opera Mini, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report [...]

International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong. This was the fourth commercial mission of the year for ILS and the sixth [...]

Modern Times Group MTG AB (publ.) (‘MTG’ or ‘the Group’) (STO:MTGA) (STO:MTGB), the international entertainment broadcasting group, today announced that Viasat Broadcasting will launch Sweden’s only dedicated ice hockey channel at the start of the new season in the Autumn. Viasat Hockey will be available on the Viasat satellite platform as part of Viasat’s premium [...]

THE COMPANY ALSO ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT STEPS FORWARD IN ITS PLAN TO DEVELOP A COMPLETE RANGE OF “SURF” PRODUCTS FOR THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY: FIRST PROTOTYPES OF FLEXIBLE PIPES MANUFACTURED IN THE BRAZILIAN PLANT OF VILA VELHA.
Milan – Houston 5 May 2009. Prysmian Cables & Systems, a leading worldwide player in the energy and telecom [...]

GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that it has been awarded UIC certificates E-001/2009-02 for its Evolution® V12 diesel locomotive engines that power its Evolution Series locomotives. The Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer (UIC – International Union of Railways) inspection procedure, which includes an endurance run as [...]

txtNation, leading mobile billing and messaging specialists, have today announced soon to be live SMS Short Code connectivity, available within the next several weeks across the CIS, Asian and Middle Eastern regions. The countries listed on this roll out schedule include a massive eleven new untapped markets; Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, [...]

A satellite carrying Europe’s first S-band payload – operated by Solaris Mobile – was successfully launched at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch took place at 22:24 local time – 16:24 GMT, 18:24 CET – on April 3.
Dublin based Solaris Mobile, a joint venture between two of the world’s leading satellite operators, Eutelsat Communications [...]

GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that its customer Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) has taken delivery of the 3,000th Evolution Series® locomotive produced at GE Transportation’s Erie, Pennsylvania manufacturing site. The Evolution is the most technologically advanced diesel electric, heavy-haul locomotive to-date. One Evolution Series locomotive can pull [...]

Modern Times Group MTG AB (publ.) (‘MTG’ or ‘the Group’) (STO:MTGA) (STO:MTGB) , the international entertainment-broadcasting group, today announced the launch of Viasat’s TV1000 Russian Kino premium movie channel for the Russian speaking population of the United States. The movie channel will initially be available through DISH Network® (NASDAQ: DISH), the nation’s third largest pay-TV [...]

SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today that the launch of its new satellite ASTRA 1M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 31 October 2008. ASTRA 1M will be launched on a Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS) and is the 7th ASTRA satellite to [...]