[opendtv] Reports: Google's Android Is Getting Into TVs
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:06:22 -0500
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/97282
Reports: Google's Android Is Getting Into TVs
03.26.2010.
Google, Intel and Sony are creating a custom TV browser, so say emerging
reports about the triad. The New York Times said last week the three are
developing Google TV, an Internet-connected television platform based on its
Android operating system. As the Times notes, several TV makers have integrated
various 'Net connectivity into their sets, but most are limited to specific
services like NetFlix or YouTube or Amazon or some combination thereof. The
Google TV system aims to be reach farther into applications like Twitter and
Google's photo site, Picasa.
The Google platform would also reportedly be opened to software developers for
further egalitarian tweaking. The geek squad is supposed to be getting the
toolkit within the next two months. Logitech is said to be making the
peripheral devices. None of the companies confirmed the Google TV initiative,
though The Wall Street Journal reported similar leakage from the Silicon Valley
giant last week, saying Google and Dish Network were working on an
Android-powered set-top box. (See "Google Tests TV Search on Dish Network.")
The alliance builds on one Dish and Google struck up in 2007 for an automated
TV ad-buying platform.
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