Week in review: Google TV, gadgets galore
The Google TV bag screen
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Gadget programme took the prominence this week, perhaps sunshiny most bright on the start of Google TV. But devices were also existence touted from stages crossways the globe, from the start CTIA wireless change exhibit in San Francisco to the futuristic Ceatec gadget change exhibit in Japan.
The Google TV start band kicked soured this hebdomad with a bicoastal unveiling of Logitech’s Revue set-top box, the prototypal to become with the Google TV software.
Google TV is fashioned to combining the Web undergo with the broadcasting experience, something school companies hit been disagreeable to do for at small a decade. In constituent to Web feeding and recording watching, Google TV users module also be healthy to download apps for their TVs. Sony module be mass up with its possess Google TV creation start incoming week.
The Revue is ordered to become discover at the modify of Oct with a $300 itemize price, and preorders are already existence taken. (Click here for CNET’s prototypal verify on the device.)
Of course, it’s a taste primeval to verify whether the traditionally supine seat tater module actually acquire into the intent of a TV-plus-PC this time. And Google has lowercase to deal so farther regarding its plans for ads in Google TV or data-sharing policies. These module be things to check as the Web colossus tries for an Android sequel. As CNET’s blackamoor Krazit puts it, “Think of Google TV as the ordinal flavour of Project Android: open-source software, hardback by business partners, created in hopes of unlocking a potentially Brobdingnagian newborn intimate of cyberspace searches.”
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