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Blake Krikorian’s Next Act Is Live: $99 Home Automation App For Android

May 17, 2011 3:20 AM

Since he left EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), Slingbox inventor Blake Krikorian has been working on a home automation app, meshing his experiments with renovations on his own Bay Area home. After seven months in full beta, the first public result is live now in the Android Market. The $99 R2 Control…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Apple, iPad, Google, Android, blake krikorian, crestron

Digital Home: Sling Co-Founder Krikorian on Android And Innovation

Nov 8, 2010 8:53 PM

Selling his company in 2007, when the U.S. stock market was at an all-time high, has put Sling Media co-founder Blake Krikorian in a pretty comfortable position to pontificate about the state of innovation in digital media since then. But—apart from Google’s Android operating system—he isn’t too impressed by what…

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Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Events, ContentNext Events, paidContent Entertainment, Companies, Google, Android, blake krikorian, sling media

CTIA Audio Interview: Blake Krikorian, CEO, Sling Media

Nov 5, 2007 11:15 AM

I caught up with Blake Krikorian at CTIA, just a few days after the official closing of EchoStar’s acquisition of Sling Media. (No, it won’t be called EchoSling or SlingStar.) (Sling Media finally owns the Sling.com domain and will be using it for new service Clip+Sling.) We talked about Sling’s…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Gadgets, Research & Metrics, Social Media, Video, blake krikorian, sling media

@ CTIA: Billboard: SlingMedia CEO Says Carriers Sell Data Services ‘Like Gym Memberships’

Oct 22, 2007 12:57 PM

Sling Media co-founder and CEO Blake Krikorian says his company made the decision to sell its product independently and without a service plan because there was “no way in hell” the company would survive if it had licensed its technology to cable companies or other providers and had to wait…

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