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• Tech Law: Tech Exec Sentenced, EchoStar Gets Stay, Psystar Back, More

  BNET - 2009-07-06

  Ex-AMX exec sentenced for corporate espionage; FCC gets tough on line sharing rules for telecoms; laptop vendors may face class-action suit for battery life; Usenet.com loses copyright infringement case; EchoStar gets stay of contempt of court order; Psystar to come out of bankruptcy with a new Mac clone; and an...

  Tags: Psystar, EchoStar Communications Corp., Exec, Federal Government, Litigation, Telephony, Engineering, Government, Business Operations, Networking, Erik Sherman

• She's a TV anchor, not a lobbyist.(Barbara Harrison denys working with The America Channel)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-08-08

  In its noisy quest to gain carriage from Comcast Corp., The America Channel has assembled a few political, legal and financial advisers with Beltway connections. Kathleen Wallman, a former top lawyer in the Clinton White House, is handling official communications with the...

  Tags: Cable, counsel, EchoStar Communications Corp., Government, INTERNET, lobbyist, MARKETING, Steptoe & Johnson, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TV, Web, White House

• WallStreetGrapevine.com "Spotlight" Alert -SCXC, GORX, DISH.

  - 2004-12-01

  M2 PRESSWIRE-1 December 2004-WallStreetGrapevine: WallStreetGrapevine.com "Spotlight" Alert -SCXC, GORX, DISHC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12012004 WallStreetGrapevine.com "Heard on the Street" Alert - SCXC, GORX, DISH Sciax Corp. (Pink Sheets:SCXC) recently reported another sale to BP Canada, a large...

  Tags: EchoStar Communications Corp., Government, network, TVs, U.S. Congress

• Bidders plunk down $119 million for new terrestrial TV service: MSO, DBS company back the top buyers of the spectrum.(Washington)

  - 2004-02-09

  Cynics may predict that a new pay service to compete with cable and DBS will never happen. The $119 million in hard cash offered by 10 winning bidders in last month's FCC auction indicates otherwise. "I don't think the government would have pulled...

  Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., EchoStar Communications Corp., FCC, Government, satellite, spectrum, TV

• BRIEFS

  - 2003-03-31

  POWELL SEEKS 'REALISTIC' DIVERSITY PUSH FCC Chairman Michael Powell announced that he wants the agency and government to create a new ownership diversity initiative. In his Media Institute speech last week, Powell said, "We need a substantive policy" to look at the links between diversity of ownership, minority ownership...

  Tags: Adelphia Communications Corp., broadband, EchoStar Communications Corp., FCC, Government, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Satellite Television Providers Try to Salver Merger.

  - 2002-11-28

  Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 28--EchoStar Communications and Hughes Electronics have said they are trying to salvage their $19.3 billion (UKpound 12.4 billion) merger and will file a new proposal with US regulators. The two satellite television...

  Tags: EchoStar Communications Corp., Government, Hughes Electronics, NETWORKING, News Corp., satellite, TVs

• EchoStar reclaims Ka-band. (Capital Watch).(Brief Article)

  - 2002-11-25

  EchoStar will get a chance to launch its new Ka-band satellite after all. The FCC last week reinstated the company's license to launch and operate EchoStar 9, a hybrid Ku/Ka-band satellite under construction by Loral. In July, the FCC ruled that EchoStar...

  Tags: EchoStar Communications Corp., FCC, Government, Loral Space & Communications Ltd., NETWORKING, satellite

• FCC Reinstates EchoStar License

  - 2002-11-22

  The Federal Communications Commission reversed field and reinstated EchoStar Communications' [DISH] license to launch a satellite with high-speed Internet capabilities. In June, the FCC revoked the company's license for using the high-speed Ka-band frequency because it said the company missed construction milestones. The FCC said this week that EchoStar should...

  Tags: EchoStar Communications Corp., FCC, Government, satellite

• Hit or bust.

  - 2002-11-05

  Nov 04, 2002 (The Economist - ABIX via COMTEX) US regulators have blocked a major merger, but the game is not over yet. On 10 October 2002, the US Federal Communications Commission FCC blocked the merger of EchoStar and Hughes, two giant satellite TV ...

  Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., EchoStar Communications Corp., FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, merger, satellite, TVs

• Issue rumours put brake on News Corp shares.

  - 2002-10-29

  Oct 29, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The price of News Corporation's stock ceased to rise after a rumour that the company is considering a rights issue. Merrill Lynch observed that News Corporation's subsidiary, Fox, has filed a shelf statement with the...

  Tags: DirecTV, EchoStar Communications Corp., Government, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., News Corp., rumour, TVs