ENTERPRISE — WildBlue Enterprise Solutions said Wednesday it will begin providing an optional, larger satellite dish for use exclusively by business customers subscribing to its enterprise products, beginning late October. The new .98 meter dish is designed to provide greater network availability for WildBlue Enterprise Solution’s broadband internet service for business and government customers.

PROGRAMMING — DIRECTV added four high-definition channels to its HD lineup Wednesday bringing the company’s total to 45. The total includes DIRECTV’s four local networks. The new HD channels being offered are MGM HD (channel 255); Food Network HD (channel 231); National Geographic HD (channel 276) and CNBC HD (channel 355).

TECHNOLOGY — Off-air DBS/HD accessory distributor Centronics introduced its HDTE-200 HDMI cable tester - the newest addition to its Elite HD product line. The tester will test any HDMI cable up to 1.3 specifications by checking all 19 pins to ensure the cable is defect free. Centronics said the HDTE-200 can be used with both standard and mini HDMI heads, with a MSRP of $69.95.

CONFERENCES — Peter Diamandis of the X PRIZE Foundation, Paypal founder Elon Musk, who now heads Space Exploration Technologies, Virgin Galactic’s Alex Tai and t/Space’s Lon Levin are among the speakers announced for the International Symposium of Personal Spaceflight. Scheduled for Oct. 24-25 in Las Cruces, NM, the Symposium focuses on the new Wild West of entrepreneurial space ventures, including space tourism, low-cost space cargo and passenger vehicle technologies, rocket racing and the like. For more information on the event, go to: http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/isps/.