Can Google TV Be Saved?

Sales of partner Logitech's device miss target by 70%

Google may do a lot of things right, but its miserable exceptions (Google Buzz, anyone?) can be pretty miserable—and Google TV looks right now like a candidate for the latter category. According to reports today, the system called Revue Google TV, produced with Logitech, is seriously underperforming its targets.

Logitech said in a quarterly earnings release yesterday that the set-top Web TV box is performing far below expectations, bringing in only $5 million in sales. That's compared to the $22 million Logitech had reported in sales for the previous quarter and $18 million expected for this quarter.

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