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TiVo Soars on Ruling in Dish Network Case

David B. Wilkerson, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on April 20, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT

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.

French Watchdog Warns Google

John Paczkowski in News on December 14, 2010 at 2:32 pm PT

Autorite de la Concurrence, France’s antitrust watchdog, spent the better part of the past year studying competition in the French Internet search advertising market and you’ll never guess who it determined to be the dominant player.

No One Is Happy With the FCC Chairman's Speech, Except Broadband Investors

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 1, 2010 at 12:52 pm PT

Everyone has something to say about today’s speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality. Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users of BitTorrent, the commission has been spinning its wheels trying to find a way to nudge the broadband industry in a direction toward treating all Internet content fairly.

Court Rules Against FCC in Comcastic Net Neutrality Decision

John Paczkowski in News on April 6, 2010 at 8:34 am PT

In the end, the federal appeals court reviewing the Federal Communications Commission’s sanctions against Comcast was as skeptical of the FCC’s authority to issue them as Comcast itself. This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the agency overstepped its bounds when it censured Comcast for interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its network.

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Intel, After Email Miscues, Accuses AMD of the Same

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 16, 2009 at 11:21 am PT

Intel has admitted to some major gaffes in handling documents in an antitrust suit filed by Advanced Micro Devices, which is moving toward a trial next March. Now the chip giant says the shoe is on AMD’s foot. Intel this week filed a motion seeking sanctions against AMD, alleging that its smaller rival failed to adequately retain and produce documents in the case and tried to hide its lapses.

TiVo to DISH: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

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.

TiVo to DISH: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

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.