Tag archive: HAVA

Fresh off being sued for violating the GPL license of a software package embedded in its Hava devices, Monsoon Multimedia has announced Havasoft, a new software package that can bring TiVo-like DVR capability to any PC wth a television tuner. In addition, Havasoft can take advantage of in-house Wi-Fi so the computer can act as wireless network TV tuner for several Media Center PCs in a household. "We developed HavaSoft for our OEM… Read More

In what may turn out to be an important legal precedent for the open software movement, the Software Freedom Law Center has filed the first U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit over violation of the terms of the GNU General Public License, or GPL. The SFLC's clients? Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, the developers of BusyBox, an application which implements several Unix-like utilities for use in embedded systems. The lawsuit's… Read More

Announced back in January, Monsoon Multimedia's Hava video streaming and placeshifting devices aimed to take on Sling Media by enabling users to stream their home video content—including DVDs, recording programming, and even live television—anywhere in the world they could get a broadband Internet connection. Now, Monsoon Multimedia has announced that its Hava Gold and Hava Platinum HD units are available at U.S.… Read More

Monsoon Multimedia is taking aim at the Slingbox and the increasing number of solutions offering to let users stream video around the home and over the Internet with its Monsoon HAVA Gold HD “The HAVA Gold HD is a great addition to our HAVA line of video time- and place-shifting solutions,” said Vadim Dagman, CTO at Monsoon. “Our engineers worked hard to deliver best-of-breed features including HD support, PVR… Read More