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Google TV Announced With Intel, Sony, and Logitech

Posted by timothy on from the you-like-dexter-and-barney dept.

MojoKid writes "Google's own I/O conference in California is wrapping up today, but not before the company goes out with a serious bang. Google just announced something that has been rumored for a while now: Google TV. Basically, Google is taking the Apple TV concept, but going way overboard by introducing apps, screen customization, and channel searching. Following Google's own announcement, Intel stepped in to provide some backbone to the story. Google is obviously using the big players to move Google TV forward, with Intel, DISH Network, Best Buy, and Adobe firmly on board. Google TV itself is based on Android, runs the Google Chrome browser, and will allow users to access all of their usual TV channels as well as a world of Internet and cloud-based information and applications, including Adobe Flash-based content."

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  1. no thanks by spidercoz · · Score: 0, Troll

    you lost me at "Adobe"

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    1. Re:no thanks by spidercoz · · Score: 0, Troll

      so you're "funny" and I'm a "troll" for saying the same thing about different subjects...

      you don't HAVE to be brain-damaged to be a mod on slashdot...BUT IT SURE FUCKING HELPS!!!

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  2. Re:Google TV by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is Google - remember?

    Like the famous "In Soviet Russia" meme, On Google TV, Advertising watches You!

    I said before - and will insist at every turn - that Google is a BAD IDEA and a WORSE REALITY. They are in everything from the "smart grid" to mobile phones and television. Do you remember "Brazil"? Google == Central Services.

    And with the TV we are one step closer to the 1984 Telescreen. Don't be evil, my arse. They feed right into this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core

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