Google Sinks Teeth Into TV, With Dish And Others

Debuts web-connected TV platform with Dish, Sony, Best Buy, Intel, Logitech and Adobe

By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/20/2010 4:32:09 PM

Google -- in perhaps the most ambitious effort ever to marry the TV with the Internet -- announced an initiative to create a new class of Web-savvy products and services for television sets with partners that included Dish Network, Sony Electronics, Best Buy, Logitech and Intel.
 
The Internet search giant’s Google TV is an open-source software stack, along with a hardware reference design, designed to let consumer-electronics makers, pay-TV service providers, content owners, apps developers and others create new ways to search and discover content on the TV.
 
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