Going to 60 hockey games a year might sound like fun, but for Gary Bettman it's just another day at the office. In 15 years as NHL chief, he has more than quadrupled revenues to $2.6 billion, added four teams and, more recently, signed TV deals with NBC and Versus, and led the league to record attendance levels even after the 2004-05 lockout season.
Software giant Microsoft unveiled some of its future technology at its fourth annual Innovation Day in Brussels on December 4.
In some ways, you've got to feel a little sympathetic for Sony. The company effectively invented the placeshifting concept -- the ability to stream TV programming from your living room to another device via the Internet -- in 2004, only to see it co-opted by smaller upstart Sling Media a year later. The latter company's Slingbox series of products have become the industry leader, popular enough for the start-up to be purchased by Dish Network parent EchoStar for a cool $380 million.
In some ways, you've got to feel a little sympathetic for Sony. The company effectively invented the placeshifting concept -- the ability to stream TV programming from your living room to another device via the Internet -- in 2004, only to see it co-opted by smaller upstart Sling Media a year later.
I had just finished speaking to a high school journalism class the other day -- clearly the guy who covers the local utilities commission was otherwise engaged -- when I was given the one question I can always count on being asked in these situations:
Satellite television provider EchoStar Communications Corp. has agreed to acquire Sling Media Inc. in a deal that values the maker of the Slingbox device at $380 million.
Most people searching for the must-have device on the Web either want it, want it for free or want help fixing problems
"If you've been disrupted, it means your business model is broken."
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Ask most people what qualifies as good design and they're likely to name a line of couture, a groundbreaking skyscraper, or a sleek piece of modern furniture. But why not a pill bottle, a bag of M&...
Drinking from a fire hose. Holding back the tide. Herding fish. Whatever your metaphor of choice, it's easy to get washed away amongst the thousands of gadgets at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, or CES.
TiVo won't go down in history for its business plan. But it will be remembered as the company that perfected "time-shifting"—the idea that you can watch what you want, when you want, without being ...
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