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• Broadband Stimulus Attracting A Great Deal Of Attention As Echostar Sets Record

  BNET - 2009-09-28

  As part of the "Stimulus" bill or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA signed by President Obama in March was a provision to set aside about $4 billion to aid in expanding broadband coverage. Part of this is also to be used in especially low served rural areas....

  Tags: Broadband, Stimulus, Satellite, EchoStar Communications Corp., Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, Matthew Potter

• Tech Law: Germany Strikes Google TOS, TiVO Gets More from EchoStar, More

  BNET - 2009-09-08

  German consumer group successfully sues Google over terms of service; U.S. court finds terms of service violation to be no crime; TiVO gets more from EchoStar for patent infringement; Amazon objects to Google Books settlement; and Take-Two settles class action lawsuit over hidden sex scenes in Grand Theft Auto for...

  Tags: Google Inc., TiVo Inc., Terms Of Service, EchoStar Communications Corp., Erik Sherman

• TiVo Targets Verizon, AT&T for DVR Suits

  BNET - 2009-08-27

  After scoring a patent victory in its battle against DISH Network and EchoStar earlier this summer, TiVO on Wednesday announced that it would also go after AT&T and Verizon for similar violations. TiVO filed suit in a Texas District Court, accusing Verizon and AT&T of infringing on patents related to...

  Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., EchoStar Communications Corp.

• TiVo Inc. F2Q10 (Qtr End 7/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-08-27

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Alan Gould - Natexis Bleichroeder. Alan Gould - Natexis Bleichroeder Two litigation-related questions: Tom, what's the benefit of announcing the lawsuit now against AT&T and Verizon as opposed to waiting for the next step of the...

  Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Call Transcript, AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., Earnings, EchoStar Communications Corp., Question, Litigation, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha

• Earnings: TiVo Q2 Loss Edges Slightly Higher; Fires Lawsuit At AT&T and Verizon

  PaidContent - 2009-08-26

  TiVo’s net income loss was slightly higher in Q2, widening to $2.93 million ($0.03 per share) from $2.91 last year. Revenues also dipped, falling to $57.3 million from $65.2 million in Q208. Not great news by any stretch, but the DVR company did beat analysts estimates who expected a...

  Tags: Lawsuit, Net Income, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, Earnings, EchoStar Communications Corp., DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Legal, Patents, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Money, Companies, AT&T, Verizon, David Kaplan

• DISH Q2: Major Miss on EPS, But Shares Rise on Subscriber Growth

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-08-10

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: DISH Network DISH shares are trading higher on stronger than expected Q2 subscriber growth. For the quarter, the satellite TV service provider posted revenue of $2.904 billion, just below the Street consensus of $2.91 billion, and down 0.4% from a year ago. EPS...

  Tags: Media, Eric Savitz, EchoStar Communications Corp.

• 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

• TiVo: Court Ruling Could Mean Trouble

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-02

  Julia Boorstin submits: It's been a tumultuous summer for DVR service TiVo TIVO, with a handful of court rulings that have sent the stock bouncing all over the place. The latest news is sending the stock down. Following a major victory for TiVo in early June, now there's a...

  Tags: Media, Julia Boorstin, EchoStar Communications Corp., TiVo Inc.

• Dish Networks Loses Satellite TV Subscribers but Grows Profits

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-12

  Julia Boorstin submits: Satellite TV provider Dish Network DISH traded up more than 20 percent in Monday's trading on better than expected profits and the loss of fewer subscribers than analysts forecast. The stock had fallen by nearly half over the past year as the company loses customers to...

  Tags: Media, Julia Boorstin, EchoStar Communications Corp., DirecTV Group Inc.

• Dish Network Corp. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-11

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Benjamin Swinburne from Morgan Stanley. Benjamin Swinburne - Morgan Stanley Hey guys, its Ben Swinburne, good morning. A couple of questions, I wondered if you would comment on over the air transition benefited gross ads in the quarter. I don’t know if...

  Tags: Dish Network Corp., Call Transcript, Quarter, Agreement, Earnings, Morgan Stanley, Marketing Research, Marketing, Seeking Alpha, EchoStar Communications Corp.