Everyone agrees TV is broken. And some of today's biggest companies aim to fix that, from Intel to Apple, and now Google. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the search giant has allegedly approached media companies about licensing content for an upcoming Internet TV service; it'll reportedly resemble the traditional programming model, but give viewers more flexibility in what...
LG will introduce multiple new Google TV-enabled television sets at CES 2013. Google’s streaming media platform has been getting a bit more powerful as of late, and now LG thinks it may be time to give folks a few more options at trying it out. Announced this week, LG will be introducing 42, 47, 50, 55 and 60-inch sets with the platform built-in at CES 2013 next month in Las Vegas....
Hisense on Monday announced the Pulse with Google TV, a $99 machine that promises to bring apps, Web, search and live TV to your living room. Available in mid-November, the Hisense Pulse will further stoke your love for Google by bringing you "true plug-and-play versatility, easy set up and connectivity right out of the box." The device, which was rumored just the other day, will have...
Google just announced that today, Google Play will now offer TV shows, the option to buy movies and the option to subscribe to magazines. Google partnered with Disney, ABC, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures and Paramount for its Google Movie purchases and TV shows. It also partnered with Hearst, Conde Nast and others for Magazine subscriptions. The content will all be available today.
Last November I reviewed Google TV 2.0, a software update pushed out to owners of Logitech and Sony GTV devices. The folks at Sony lent me a 46-inch SIT for testing purposes, and while I found the update to be a marked improvement over the GTV 1.0 software it replaced, I didn’t think it would do too much to reverse Google’s television fortunes all on its own. More recently, Google...
In Part 1 of my tech travel journal, I explained how I was traveling recently without a laptop. Well, actually, I did have one on my trip to San Francisco, but it was emergency backup only. Otherwise, with one tablet, three smartphones and a mobile hotspot, I presumably had more than enough to get some work done. After all, this is the promise of mobile technology, isn’t it? To liberate...
Timely, isn't it, to post this review hot on the heels of Logitech's CEO calling his company's foray into Google TV "a mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature"? As Adriana reported, company chief Guerrino De Luca said the GTV-powered Revue set-top box cost his business, "well over $100M in operating profits," and that he currently has no plans for any follow-up products. Ouch....
The Logitech Revue hasn’t exactly had a stellar year since it debuted last holiday season. Admittedly, says CEO Guerrino De Luca, the product launched with what amounted to beta-level Google TV software — meaning customers would’ve been coughing up $300 for what was a fairly unfinished product. This was the essence of what De Luca said at yesterday’s Analyst and Investor Day at...
Since Walter Isaacson’s “60 minutes” interview, and since the release of his biography of Steve Jobs hit shelves, the talk around Apple has generated buzz on multiple fronts. The one that proves most interesting to me is Steve Jobs’ apparent desire to make an integrated TV set. He said that he had “cracked it,” and I’m inclined to believe him. However, the real question to be asking (if...
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Great Googley moogley! Looks like my Google TV will be all shiny and new soon. I’ve had this Logitech Revue since January and, sad to say, it has been sitting in my entertainment unit, collecting dust since then. But I’ve been waiting in serious anticipation since Google announced plans to finally update the software, imbuing it with UI and search enhancements, as well as the Android...