SeaSpace Wins Contract For Station in Australia
Oracle, the Redwood Shores-based software giant, will soon have more of a presence in San Diego. It is working with locally based Wingcast Inc. to develop and test telematics services, then put them into place.
Telematics is the marriage of the automobile with computers and wireless phones. Voice activation will be a key part of such systems. Wingcast plans to launch such systems in the middle of 2002 (or, from the automotive point of view, at the start of the 2003 model year) in Ford and Nissan vehicles.
The Oracle/Wingcast work will take place in a special engineering center.
Wingcast itself is a joint project , a venture of San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. and Ford Motor Co.
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Satellites And Seven Continents:
Poway-based SeaSpace Corp. is meeting its self-imposed goal of putting its satellite ground stations on each of Earth’s seven continents. And as things turned out, Antarctica was not the last in line.
A contract awarded in Australia is the last thing to help the company reach its goal.
The Western Australia Technology and Applications Consortium in Perth has bought SeaSpace’s TeraScan SX-EOS Direct Broadcast Ground Station. The $400,000 unit should be delivered in about three months, said company President Linda S. Bernstein.
The newest SeaSpace product, the TeraScan SX-EOS, is a ground station that receives and processes data from NASA’s newly launched EOS satellite series.
SeaSpace calls its TeraScan systems affordable products for customers with mission-critical data needs. The Australian contract is the 10th SeaSpace has received for an SX-EOS in the one year it has been available.
DoD Dollars:
Quantum Magnetics of San Diego is among a group of 15 businesses and academic institutions that will share a pair of Army Research Laboratory contracts worth a total of $121 million.
The Army has asked for work in developing advanced sensors to detect people, vehicles and more. The contracts cover eight years of work. BAE Systems of Nashua, N.H., is leading the alliance. Quantum Magnetics will lead the group’s development of magnetic sensors.
Several other military contracts support work at Quantum Magnetics, which is based in the Miramar area.
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Columnar Components:
San Diego-based Jabra Corp. is indeed working on an advertising campaign for the New York market, now that state lawmakers there have banned drivers from using handheld telephones. Jabra makes a line of earpieces that turn wireless handsets into “hands-free” devices. Jennifer Cauble, Jabra’s vice president for marketing, confirmed the existence of the campaign but said early last week that it was keeping it under wraps for now. The New York ban goes into effect Nov. 1. San Diego-based EyeCues Education Systems, Inc. officially unveils Learning-Together , an Internet-based testing tool for schoolchildren , this week at Claremont Graduate University. Students can take EyeCues’ Web-based tests in English or Spanish. Among other things, the Old Town software maker says the tests can determine the way students learn.
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