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It got its start as the annoying DRM for VCRs and expanded into all kinds of DRM over the years. In 2008, it bought GemStar-TV Guide and was then in the TV Guide producing business as well. While it eventually sold off the DRM/software parts of its
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Apparently Rovi is having so much fun suing people for doing totally obvious things that it's expanded the effort and is now suing Hulu as well . It's interesting to see that it's actually using different patents in this case, compared to in the
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Last year, Rovi's bold bet on a corporate makeover -- some three years in the making -- finally started paying off. The Santa Clara company, which provides the software and technology that lets consumers see program listings on their TVs, reversed
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If this sounds ridiculous to you, welcome to today's patent system. The specific patents are listed here: The thing is, most of these seem pretty questionable. You could put any halfway decent programmer in front of a computer and say "I want to
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That's what I said when I saw this name show up on one of my screens. I'm quite familiar with probably 1000+ stocks but Rovi? As a stock researcher at heart (although that art has been made obsolete by HAL9000) I wondered how a $4B+ market cap
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LiveMatrix, a search engine for what's happening now on the web May 25, 2010 Kim-Mai Cutler LiveMatrix, a search engine for events on the web, has opened today to make sure people don't miss shows and sales happening online...It covers livestreamed
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President of the cabler is moving to Gotham to begin another venture for a new capacity, but in what capacity is unclear...O'Hara was tabbed prexy of the net in 2005 when it was owned by Gemstar-TV Guide...TV Guide and TVGuide.com was bought by
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