33 posts and columns on EchoStar
Blake Krikorian Joins FreeWheel Board
The video tech start-up adds video start-up guy.News Byte
Dish, EchoStar Settle TiVo Patent Fight For $500 Million
Dish and EchoStar are paying TiVo half a billion dollars to settle a long-running patent fight over DVR technology. The two satellite TV companies will pay TiVo $300 million up front, and the remainder over 6 years, to settle suits that started in 2004. The settlement follows an April 20 legal victory for TiVo.Voices
TiVo Soars on Ruling in Dish Network Case
TiVo Inc. stock was up 35 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that would force satellite broadcaster Dish Network to shut down millions of digital video recorders because they were found to have infringed upon TiVo Inc. patents.Microsoft TV? Join the Club! Just Don't Disrupt the Cable Guys
The TV guys are happy to let Microsoft deliver shows to your living room — as long as they pay up, and as long as they don’t disrupt the party.Voices
TerreStar Units File Chapter 11
TerreStar said its majority-owned Terrestar Networks unit and certain other affiliates have filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Chapter 11 filing likely was imminent.Voices
Patent Office Backs TiVo's DVR Claims
TiVo Inc. said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reaffirmed the validity of all its patent claims for its “time-warp” digital video recorder technology in the second re-examination of the patent at EchoStar Corp.’s request. TiVo’s shares jumped 9.7 percent to $10.08 in 4 p.m. Nasdaq trading, while EchoStar slid 1.1 percent to $19.30 and sister company Dish Network Corp. fell 2.7 percent to $19.10.Voices
Sun Valley Update: Is the Internet TV Market Up for Grabs?
Despite serious interest from Apple and Google, the market of Internet-connected televisions is still up for grabs, said former chief executive of Sling Media Blake Krikorian in an interview Wednesday.Voices
TiVo: Appeals Court Upholds Contempt Finding In DISH Case
TiVo shares are rocketing higher after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling which found found DISH Network and Echostar in contempt of a previous ruling which found infringement of TiVo’s DVR patents.TiVo to DISH: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
It’s not the $974.5 million TiVo had been looking for, but the $200 million in sanctions against EchoStar’s Dish Network the company has been awarded isn’t exactly petty cash, either. On Friday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the satellite broadcaster to cough up that sum for its continued infringement of TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system” patent.Voices