Tech Bytes: Globe Tracker and BSA

Globe Tracker partners with satellite communications firm GIT, while software executive group BSA calls on Congress to pass Trade Promotion Authority.    GIT Satellite Communications and Globe Tracker International have formed a strategic partnership to integrate satellite connectivity into Globe Tracker’s asset tracking and cargo monitoring solutions.
   The tie-up is a response to increasing customer demand for continuous global visibility of intermodal containers and real-time cargo alarms outside the scope of cellular communications coverage in remote areas.
   “Globe Tracker and GIT Satellite Communications are aiming to have the technologies integrated within the next 60 days,” says Jim Davis, chief executive officer of Globe Tracker.

   Earlier this month, software executive group BSA, “The Software Alliance,” called on Congress to pass an updated Trade Promotion Authority to foster “rules protecting the movement of data across borders and the increase in policies around the world that would hinder market access for digital products and services.”
   In a letter sent to Congress, BSA members cited the increase in unilateral moves by individual nations to restrict the movement of cross-border data.
   BSA member companies that signed the letter include Adobe, Altium, ANSYS, Apple, Autodesk, CA Technologies, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Minitab, Oracle, salesforce.com, Siemens PLM Software, Symantec.