Google, Intel and Sony are working on a new project that will bring the Internet to your living room TV. The platform will be powered by Android with the Chrome browser as the front-end.
Some predict that the Google TV set-top box could launch as early as this week at Google IO conference.
The Google TV set-top box is said to run Android and be powered by Intel chips, and will make Sony televisions and even Blu-ray DVD players function like computers, running Google search, the Chrome Web browser, and YouTube and other programs. EWeek.
The partners are developing technology that will make it as easy for television users to search the web as for computer users, with access to social networks such as Twitter or Facebook and to movies and TV shows on web video sites such as YouTube or Hulu.com. TimesOnline.
Google TV is both a platform (for other developers to create new applications just like the Android Market) as well as a service that will run Web applications on televisions through the set-top boxes.