Google and partners looking to get into your television set next
Not content with just ruling the Internet, and trying to get a slice of the lucrative mobile market, Google appears to now be aiming to coming into your living room via your television set.
The television market has seen a lot of attempts at integrating the Internet into your life, but the largest problem has been the fact that the number of applications that have been offered is limited in scope. According to The New York Times, Google is partnering up with Intel, Logitech and Sony to change all of that.
Google is partnering with Intel on micro-processors for televisions, and a possible set top box, that will run a version of its Android operating system. The plan is that through a customized version of the Chrome Web browser, you will be able to access a variety of Web services directly from your television set. Apparently Sony has joined in as it is looking to add Web tools to future TV sets, and Logitech is working on a remote control with a mini-keyboard so that you can easily enter information into the system.
The difference between this plan and others have come before it is that Google wants to use Android and Chrome so that third-parties can easily build applications for the system, just like they currently do for Android-based phones. This will allow for a pretty much unlimited number of tools to be built, and could bring just about any current Web service with an API (application programming interface) to the sets. As an example, this could finally mean that Hulu would be streamed to televisions.
There is no current launch date known, but apparently all of the involved companies have been working on the project for several months now. How far this means we are from a formal announcement is unknown at this time.
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