Category: communications

US-China Relations: Sometimes Silence Is Golden

Commentary President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have agreed on much when they met in Bali this week. But they did agree that both sides would start talking again. A U.S. military officer serving in the Pacific asked if this at least was a good thing. Yes, it is better than…


House Republicans Accuse SEC of ‘Hypocrisy’ and Violating Record-Keeping and Transparency Laws

House Republicans accused Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and his agency of hypocritically failing to comply with federal record-keeping and transparency laws that they impose on others. A letter signed by Republican congressmen Jim Jordan of Ohio, Patrick Henry of North Carolina, James Comer of Kentucky, and Tom Emmer of Minnesota, was sent to the…


Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)

A strange signal arrives on Earth, disturbing all communications, while a UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to space outside the solar system to find the origin of that signal. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature…


How to Improve Internal Team Communication

The quality and consistency of your internal team communications have the power to change your business for the better or the worse. With more fluid, clearer forms of interaction, your team members will collaborate more effectively and improve overall productivity. With lapses in timing, phrasing, and clarity, your entire operation could collapse. So what steps can you…


SpaceX Appeals US FCC Rejection of Rural Broadband Subsidies

WASHINGTON—SpaceX on Friday challenged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to deny the space company’s satellite internet unit $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies, calling the move “flawed” and “grossly unfair,” in a regulatory filing. The FCC last month turned down applications from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX and LTD Broadband for funds that had…


NASA Launches Laser Communication Experiment

The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission successfully launched Tuesday before sunrise at 5:19 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. LCRD is a technology demonstration that will pave the way for future optical communications missions. Future missions that decide to use optical communications could potentially use LCRD as their relay. One of…


10 Keys to Teamwork

By Belén Gómez Pereira If it takes one hour for a person to complete a task, how long would it take two? The mathematical answer would be: “30 minutes.” But when working as a team, the efforts of the members are enhanced, reducing the time of action and increasing the effectiveness of the results. This…


Nasdaq, S&P 500 End Lower, Dragged Down by Communications Services

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower on Friday as disappointing quarterly reports from Snap Inc. and Intel Corp. put pressure on the communications and technology sectors and investors turned skittish as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell discussed stimulus tapering. The Dow managed to end the day with a record closing high for the first…


Telstra Fined $1.5 Million From Regulator

Telstra has paid a $1.5 million penalty for failing to allow consumers to keep existing local phone numbers when changing telephone companies. From March to July 2020, Telstra suspended the majority of its local number porting operations, saying the COVID-19 pandemic impacted offshore operations. More than 42,000 services could not be moved from Telstra to…


Satellite Phones Come to the Rescue Where Cell Phones Fail

When a hurricane in Florida knocked out the power where Eric Talman’s mother lived for 13 days, she was able to call him on her satellite phone to keep in touch and let him know she was safe. As vice president of the Satellite Phone Store, Talman is no stranger to the benefits of having…