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The Press-Enterprise | November 15, 2005

Albuquerque Journal | November 12, 2005

An advisory committee to the State Investment Council has recommended lending another $15 million to the producers of the ABC Family television program "Wildfire."
"Wildfire" has been the cable channel's most popular program, said State Investment Council spokesman Charles Wollmann.
Last year, the state lent "Wildfire's" producers, Lions Gate Films, $4.1 million to shoot a pilot in and around Algodones and Rio Rancho.

Business Wire | November 07, 2005

Operating Highlights for the Quarter
Crown Media's net revenue in the third quarter of 2005 increased 62% to $50.7 million, from $31.3 million in the prior year's third quarter.
Hallmark Channel U.S. subscribers increased 9% to 69.2 million as of September 30, 2005, from 63.4 million subscribers as of September 30, 2004.

Buffalo News | November 10, 2005

Shares of iRobot Corp. closed up more than 11 percent in Wednesday's trading debut for the world's largest maker of mobile robots for the consumer market, from the floor-cleaning Roomba to the soldier-accompanying Packbot.
Burlington-based iRobot is now one of the few robotics companies with publicly traded stock.
IRobot granted the stock offering's underwriters -- a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. -- the right to buy another 645,000 shares at the initial price.

Long Island Business News | November 11, 2005

iRobot Corp., the maker of robots that do everything from scrub a floor to dispose of bombs, is coming to Long Island in search of parts suppliers, a Long Island Forum for Technology executive said.
LIFT President C. Kenneth Morrelly said his meetings with iRobot executives at a homeland security event in Atlanta and at the company's offices in suburban Boston had led to the planned excursion by executives to Long Island early next month.
In general, there's a role for Long Island suppliers to provide parts and subsystems.

Business Wire | November 16, 2005

iPhone2, Inc. (Pink Sheets:IPHN), a publicly-traded company which has created proprietary video/voice Internet software called ImagePhone2(TM), today announced they have retained an accounting firm to comply with SEC regulations on becoming a fully reporting company.
The Company's product, called ImagePhone2, is the Next Generation of Internet Video/Voice communications; iPhone2's customers can place unlimited peer-to-peer video/voice calls, as well as originate or receive video/voice calls from anywhere in the world using their desktop or laptop computer and a broadband connection.
"We're extremely excited to announce our plans to become a fully reporting and audited company", said Chip Greenberg, iPhone2's President and CEO.

Business Wire | November 16, 2005

Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMST), the leading provider of television information and guidance, announced today it has promoted Richard Cusick to the newly created position of senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media.
Mr. Cusick, who has been senior vice president, Business Development and Strategic Planning for Gemstar-TV Guide since February 2004, will be responsible for the digital media development for the company, including the oversight of the TVGuide.com and TV Guide Mobile businesses.
As senior vice president, Business Development and Strategic Planning, Mr. Cusick has been responsible for development activities across the company, and has played a key role in strategic planning and corporate transactions.

Oakland Tribune | November 11, 2005

But today, consumers have a dizzying array of choices in size, screen type and image quality.
Although not quite bargain prices, the cost of high- definition, LCD and plasma TVs has dropped enough that more people are at least considering them.
The most popular choice lately has become high-definition televisions, or HDTVs, which can be bought in a wide range of types from plasma to LCD to picture-tube televisions.

Boston Herald | November 15, 2005

Investors love stocks with the potential to become brand names and are willing to overlook a lot of performance issues in hopes of catching the next household giant.
For the average investor, overlooking that trouble and wading into those waters is asking to get blown up, which is precisely why Overstock.com has become a Stupid Investment of the Week.
That's enough to entice average investors, but it's not enough to keep Overstock out of the danger zone.

Columbian | November 14, 2005

NEW YORK -- "Desperate Housewives" on your iPod.
The autumn of 2005 will doubtless be remembered as the time when all assumptions about the rules of TV were thrown into the air and scattered, with no certainty about what happens when they land.
At the very least, the preliminary results show the idea of portable TV has some appeal.

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