Google, Intel, Sony Hope to Turn On Google TV
Google wants to take over your television: The search-engine giant teamed up with Intel and Sony on a platform based on Google’s Android operating system to bring the Internet onto TV sets, and Logitech will produce peripheral devices for Google TV, including a remote with a small keyboard, The New York Times reported.
Google TV is entering an already-crowded market, as the Times pointed out that similar Web-to-TV set-top boxes are being produced by Cisco Systems, Motorola, Microsoft, Apple, TiVo, Roku, and Boxee, and search-engine rival Yahoo! offers a TV platform that uses widgets to bring certain Web services to the television.
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