The prospect of a solar sailing satellite system in an Artificial Lagrange Orbit (ALO, also known as "pole sitters") offers the opportunity for polar environmental remote sensing, communications, forecasting and space weather monitoring.
And most of the services that lobbyists provide to clients these days fall under the broad title of "public affairs" or "political communications"—forecasting trends, advising on policy and teaching them to "speak the language of government".Nor are profit-seeking businessmen the only folk who lobby.
Optical communications market forecast.
It is the first time the company has revised an annual communications industry forecast.
In its 15th annual communications industry forecast, released today, the firm, which specializes in the media, predicted that advertising spending in the United States would increase 6.9percentt next year.
Veronis Suhler's 14th annual communications industry forecast, released yesterday, found that total advertiser spending grew 9.1percentto to $165 billion, last year; it expects spending to grow 8.6percentt annually, climbing to $249.1 billion in 2004.
In its 16th annual communications industry forecast, the bank, which specializes in the media, communications and information industries, said the last recovery had been fueled by the growth of the high-technology category, when the Internet was still in its infancy as a consumer medium.
Zarlink Semiconductor, a Canadian manufacturer of electronic components for the communications industry, forecast a fourth-quarter loss yesterday and said it would cut 150 jobs and halt development of a chip for digital-video recorders in a bid to become profitable.
The market for Mobile Internet Devices – the new class of Internet-connected products offering "always-on" Web browsing, photography and video, navigation, games, social networking and voice communications – is forecast to grow at a spectacular compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 167% over the next five years.
Modern satellite communications, weather forecasting and GPS simply would not exist without space exploration (some of it military-focused, admittedly).
