A high-speed satellite Internet service provided Hughes Network Systems was selected as a winner at the Consumer World Awards, an annual consumer industry awards program. The HughesNet Gen4 High-Speed Satellite Internet Service won the award for its work to deliver up to 15 Mbps of internet access and a greater download capacity, Hughes announced Monday. Close to […] More

Daryl Woodard, CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based business and managed services provider SageNet, will also serve as chief executive of the recently-acquired Spacenet, a Washington-headquartered network services contractor. The transaction completed in December 2013 and both companies aim to complete their full integration in mid- to late- 2014, Spacenet announced Monday. Glenn Katz, outgoing Spacenet CEO, […] More

Tim Zuber has been appointed U.S. partner-in-charge of knowledge and collaboration management at KPMG. In his new role, Zuber will lead efforts to adopt best practices throughout the firm and will serve on the U.S. strategic investments committee, KPMG said Tuesday. Steven Hill, U.S. vice chair of strategic investments, said Zuber brings experience in team building […] More

Ian Dix has been named vice president for business marketing at CenturyLink where he is responsible for the business solutions group’s product, program and field marketing. Prior to CenturyLink, the more than 25-year marketing veteran served as senior vice president of marketing and market development at Trilogy Software. Dix was chief marketing officer at Xtendwave, SafeNet […] More

Craig Olson, formerly a group senior director at Rockwell Collins, has been named vice president and general manager of business and regional systems at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics manufacturer. He will report directly to Kent Statler, executive VP and chief operating officer of Rockwell Collins’ commercial systems business and succeeds Jeff Standerski, who is […] More

Alex Fox serves as vice president of defense and intelligence at DigitalGlobe, where the 25-year GovCon sector veteran helps lead business development and sales in the U.S. government market. Prior to joining DigitalGlobe in 2011, he worked to hone his skills in operations, engineering and development functions in leadership roles at TASC, Northrop Grumman, GeoEye, Orbital […] More

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has unveiled a rebranding of the company’s McAfee Antivirus software as part of efforts to gain a larger share of the mobile security market, CNet.com reported Monday. Seth Rosenblatt writes that Krzanich told an audience at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show on Monday the product will now trade under the name Intel Security. […] More

Autonomic Resources has earned FedRAMP reauthorization for its ARC-P cloud offering, the first company to pass the federal agency’s ongoing assessment process. The ARC-P Community and ARC-P Private infrastructure-as-a-service platforms received initial accreditation in December 2012, the company said Monday. The re-inspection performed by a third-party assessment organization was checked against more than 100 NIST […] More

Boeing Co. has finished the first of two high power satellites for Mexico’s communications system. The Centenario geomobile satellite is built to enhance Mexico’s Mexsat social communications for public, military, civil and humanitarian needs, Boeing said Tuesday. Craig Cooning, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems and CEO of Boeing Satellite […] More

Oracle has updated its electronic health records and omics data platform in an effort to help healthcare clients further efforts to identify medicines. The new version of Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center is built to feature more than 70 tables and new attributes such as medical encounters, treatment results and medical histories of patients, Oracle […] More

A U.K. fighter jet equipped with metal components made with BAE Systems‘ 3D printing technology has taken its maiden flight. The Tornado aircraft flew from the UK Ministry of Defence’s airfield at Warton, Lancashire late last month, BAE announced Monday. 3D printing has the potential to yield approximately $2 million in maintenance and service savings for […] More

Synergy Research Group has released a new report on market performance of colocation providers in the U.S., Fierce Telecom reported Friday. Sean Buckley writes Equinix and CenturyLink‘s Savvis subsidiary are among the dominant players U.S. colocation market through continued surges in colocation and managed service earnings. Equinix generated $517 million in recurring revenues for colocation, […] More