Hands-on with Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite, rolling out now: the feature works well, texting via satellite takes a while, and users should try the demo (Victoria Song/The Verge)

November 15, 2022

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Hands-on with Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite, rolling out now: the feature works well, texting via satellite takes a while, and users should try the demo — You don’t have to hold your arm up to get a signal, though there is a lot of turning around and waiting when trying to connect to satellites.

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Apple plans to launch Emergency SOS with Satellite in November and invest $450M in US companies to support the infrastructure, with most going to Globalstar (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple plans to launch Emergency SOS with Satellite in November and invest $450M in US companies to support the infrastructure, with most going to Globalstar — – Apple said Thursday that it will spend $450 million with U.S. companies including Globalstar to enable its new emergency satellite texting feature.

November 10, 2022

SpaceX gets FCC approval to deploy up to 7,500 next-generation Starlink internet satellites in low Earth orbit; SpaceX had applied for nearly 30K satellites (Michael Sheetz/CNBC)

Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
SpaceX gets FCC approval to deploy up to 7,500 next-generation Starlink internet satellites in low Earth orbit; SpaceX had applied for nearly 30K satellites — – The FCC issued a key authorization to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, granting approval to launch up to 7,500 of its next-generation Starlink internet satellites.

December 2, 2022

Apple plans to expand Emergency SOS via Satellite to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December, after launching the service in the US and Canada (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple plans to expand Emergency SOS via Satellite to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December, after launching the service in the US and Canada — Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox.

November 15, 2022

Apple partners with satellite company Globalstar on Emergency SOS, agreeing to pay 95% of the approved capital expenditure to deploy new Globalstar satellites (Reuters)

Reuters:
Apple partners with satellite company Globalstar on Emergency SOS, agreeing to pay 95% of the approved capital expenditure to deploy new Globalstar satellites — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday selected Globalstar Inc (GSAT.A) as its partner for a feature that would allow iPhone 14 users …

September 8, 2022

Amazon plans to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype internet satellites in early 2023 on the new Vulcan rocket developed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin (Christian Davenport/Washington Post)

Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Amazon plans to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype internet satellites in early 2023 on the new Vulcan rocket developed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin — Two prototypes would launch early next year as Amazon seeks to build a constellation that would eventually grow to 3,236 satellites …

October 12, 2022

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS; users’ Stories will automatically expire after 24 hours (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS; users’ Stories will automatically expire after 24 hours — End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.

November 8, 2022

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