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U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano, D-MA, has a new legislative priority: preventing telecommunications companies from recording American families' daily household activities.

TiVo is tipped to be among the potential suitors for Hulu , with the DVR company said to be a rival to DirecTV who, in reports late last week, was described as in " very advanced stages " to acquire the on-demand service.

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TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers earned $11.5 million in the latest fiscal year, up from $6.7 million a year ago and $1.7 million a year before that, the DVR pioneer said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

The shares of the video-recorder trailblazer tumbled about 20% after the company said it would receive $490 million as a settlement for a patent lawsuit against Google 's Motorola Mobility and other entities.

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U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano is pushing legislation he says will require television watchers be given a warning before their television set starts to watch them back.

Streaming media device/service startup Boxee is expected to announce that its been acquired sometime next week, VentureBeat has learned from sources familiar with the matter.

Atlantic Broadband is the first U.S. MSO to leverage TiVo's complete product suite which delivers a unified experience that spans whole home DVR, HD Set tops for non DVR households, access to Internet delivered video and applications, and multi-screen viewing experiences delivered through a smart online portal and an Atlantic Broadband customized ... (more)

Xbox One Achievements will be split into two types - achievements and challenges - and offer new kinds of rewards, including extra game content such as maps, characters and stat boosts.

Worried about filling up your DVR? Comcast Corp., which provides service to many Bay Area homes and is the nation's largest cable TV provider, is rolling out a new TV platform that does away with the hard drive and saves your TV shows online.

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"We are thrilled at the speed and ease with which we were able to prepare for the launch of TiVo in our markets," said John Pascarelli, Executive Vice President of Operations at Mediacom Communications Corporation.

Comcast's XI3 cable box that will run on the X2 TV guide platform is show at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association Cable Show on Tuesday.

Worried about filling up your DVR? The nation's largest cable TV provider, Comcast Corp., is unveiling a new, compact set-top box that does away with the hard drive and saves your TV shows online.

The box, called the X2, was revealed at the annual gathering of cable TV companies called The Cable Show on Tuesday.

MUMBAI: Tivo which develops digital video recorders in the US has settled its pending patent litigation with Motorola , Cisco and Time Warner Cable.

Tom Claps headed to Texas to scope out developments as TiVo Inc. 's trial against Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility unit neared, with as much as $1 billion at stake over rights to digital-video-recorder technology.

Editor's Note: Related tickers: Cisco Systems, Inc. , iRobot Corporation , Google Inc , TiVo Inc. Cisco Shifts from Supply to Demand in Cloud In the two years since Cisco Systems, Inc. introduced a three-pronged, cloud-centric partners program at Partner Summit 2011, it focused heavily on programs for those that build private clouds for their ... (more)