Category Archives: General Tech

Sony to brand LocationFree as VAIO

Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 by MegaZone

While Sling Media is the king of place-shifting with the Slingbox and SlingPlayer, they’re not the only player. HAVA is probably the next best known brand, but Sony is a player in the market too with their ‘LocationFree’ products. Now … Continue reading →

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Monsoon Multimedia Announces Retail Availability of HAVA Gold and HAVA Platinum HD

Posted on Monday, July 2, 2007 by MegaZone

Sling Media dominates the nascent place-shifting market with the Slingbox, and rightfully so IMHO. However, they do have competition, mainly Sony’s Location Free Television and Snappy Multimedia’s Hava products. The Hava products are also now sold under the Monsoon brand. … Continue reading →

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The GPLv3 was released today – is TiVo doomed?

Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 by MegaZone

Yep, the GNU General Public License, version 3, was released today. The GPL is the license that governs a large proportion of open source projects, under its (until today) current v2 form. This includes the Linux kernel. Of course, one … Continue reading →

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Steve Sordello lands at LinkedIn

Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 by MegaZone

Steve Sordello left his position as TiVo’s CFO last week to join an unnamed ‘late stage venture funded company. Well, it looks like that company is LinkedIn. If you’re not familiar with LinkedIn, think of it as MySpace or Facebook … Continue reading →

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Congress wants to play nanny, again

Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 by MegaZone

Congress is talking about making satellite and cable more ‘family friendly’ again, CNET reports. I’m all for parents controlling what their kids watch. Your kids, raise them your way. But it bugs me when efforts extend to limiting content and … Continue reading →

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