Having agreed to buy Slingbox maker Sling Media, Dish Network parent company EchoStar Communications now is considering splitting itself into two distinct companies. The Colorado-based satellite TV company wants to separate its consumer-based and wholesale businesses, a move it says will allow both ...
Internet search engine leader Google reported massive quarterly financial gains Thursday, posting a net income of $1 billion in the first quarter of 2007, up from $592 million in the first quarter of 2006, and blowing past Wall Street's expectations. Google's 69 percent growth far surpassed Yahoo's ...
Continuing its drive to expand its reach beyond the Web, Google reached a deal to partner with satellite TV provider EchoStar to deliver television spots for its advertising clients. Together, the companies will create what they called the first automated system for buying, selling, distributing and...
Time-shifting device maker Sling Media on Thursday launched three new versions of its Slingbox remote TV appliances. The new models boast speeds up to 400 percent faster than older versions, with support for high-definition TV as well as a variety of other TV setups. Sling Media peddles consumer ele...
AT&T and MobiTV are now offering a mobile television service to broadband users. Called AT&T Broadband TV, it is available to subscribers of any broadband service. AT&T and MobiTV have already partnered to offer MobiTV's content to users of AT&T's WiFi hot spots; this new offering is...
In a move that speaks to online video's momentum, TiVo and Internet TV startup Brightcove on Wednesday announced a deal that will allow TiVo subscribers to receive Brightcove's broadband video programming. About 400,000 TiVo subscribers who have their set-top boxes connected to the Internet with a b...
Digital video recorder maker TiVo has won a jury verdict finding that rival EchoStar has been infringing on a "time warping" patent that is at the core of the DVR technology. A jury in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas found EchoStar has "willfully" infringed on TiVo's patent, set...
The TiVo v. EchoStar Communications patent trial officially began on Wednesday. Now it's up to a Texas jury to decide whether the satellite TV giant stole TiVo's technology that allows viewers to skip commercials. In a case that could have stock market and cable television industry repercussions, Ti...
Convergence has been an ongoing goal for telecommunications suppliers in recent years. Today, cable companies sell not only video but also Internet access and telecommunications services. Recently, they have begun to get ready to deliver wireless services, which would enable them to deliver a quadru...
TiVo announced today it has been awarded eight new patents in the U.S. and abroad, with five awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that, the company said, cover important aspects of DVD software and hardware design. TiVo also received three grants from the Chinese and Japanese pat...
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