Author Archives: MegaZone

About MegaZone

MegaZone is the Editor of Gizmo Lovers and the chief contributor. He's been online since 1989 and active in several generations of 'social media' - mailing lists, USENet groups, web forums, and since 2003, blogging.    MegaZone has a presence on several social platforms: Google+ / Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / LiveJournal / Web.    You can also follow Gizmo Lovers on other sites: Blog / Google+ / Facebook / Twitter.

Sony is ramping up PS3 marketing

Posted on Friday, November 2, 2007 by MegaZone

Is this meta-marketing? Sony dropped a press release today to announce their new marketing effort for the PS3. Unsurprisingly the campaign is based on the triad of the new $400 40GB PS3, Blu-ray support, and the new PS3 game titles … Continue reading →

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Thank you Stephen and William

Posted on Friday, November 2, 2007 by MegaZone

A thank you to both Stephen and William for their donations of TiVo Reward Referral points.

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This week’s Amazon Unbox 99-cent sale

Posted on Friday, November 2, 2007 by MegaZone

This week Amazon Unbox offers up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Reaping, We Are Marshall, License to Wed, The Bourne Identity, and The Bourne Supremacy as 99-cent rentals. There are also Sony Family Film Specials with special … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray & HD DVD news round-up

Posted on Friday, November 2, 2007 by MegaZone

Home Media Magazine reports that Kmart is going HD DVD exclusive – kind of. Kmart stores are only stocking Toshiba HD DVD players and are not selling standalone Blu-ray players, but they are selling the PS3 – which plays Blu-ray, … Continue reading →

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BusyBox settles GPL lawsuit against Monsoon over Hava

Posted on Friday, November 2, 2007 by MegaZone

In September I reported on a lawsuit against Monsoon for violating the GPL with their Hava products. They used GPL’d code from BusyBox in the Hava but didn’t make the source code available to users, as required by the GPL. … Continue reading →

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