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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.

“We Just Got Samsunged” – Samsung Is Still Needling iPhone Users With Android Ads

Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2012 by MegaZone

Samsung is still at it, with yet another ad touting their Android phones at the expense of the iPhone and its users. They never explicitly name the iPhone in the ads, but it is pretty clear from the content which … Continue reading →

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Woot! – Acer ICONIA Tab 10.1” 32GB Android Tablet Just $299.99

Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2012 by MegaZone

Today’s Woot! deal is a nice one, a refurbished Acer ICONIA Tab 10.1” 32GB Android Tablet for only $299.99 + $5 S&H. It has similar specs to most of the other first generation Android tablets: 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 … Continue reading →

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The TiVo Android App Gets A Shout Out in AppJudgment

Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 by MegaZone

The recently released official TiVo app for Android got a nice shout out on the most recent episode of Revision3′s AppJudgment. The guest, Lamarr Wilson, included it in his list of favorite apps and gave a little praise starting at … Continue reading →

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TiVo Teases The TiVo Platform SDK

Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 by MegaZone

No, I don’t mean the old HME SDK. Or the network remote control protocol. Part of the new TiVo Premiere software platform is support for apps written in Adobe Air as well as additional hooks for 3rd party apps for … Continue reading →

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Virgin Media Releases A Series Of How To Videos For Their TiVo Service

Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 by MegaZone

Virgin Media just published a slew of new ‘how to’ videos for their TiVo service. I’d really love to see TiVo do more of this kind of thing in the US as well. Though most of these do apply pretty … Continue reading →

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