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Google TV switches to new chip, tries again

Jan 5, 2012
Google TV is rapidly becoming the David Bowie of home entertainment technologies, constantly reinventing itself, coming up with new personae and new collaborators. Hasn’t really achieved a breakout hit, though. No Ziggy Stardust equivalent. Or even Let’s Dance, really. Now it’s teamed up with Marvell and will use Marvell’s chip to try to achieve faster […]

Aaaaand we have the first casualty in the smart TV war

Nov 11, 2011
It's the Logitech Revue, which Logitech will stop making and stop supporting and will no longer invite to Sunday dinner and will change the subject...

Shoe 1: New Google TV

Oct 31, 2011
When Google TV launched last year, it was the equivalent of a potentially delicious loaf of bread that had not yet been baked. The ingredients were...

Google spending half a billion dollars for YouTube content?

Sep 16, 2011
We know that Google pretty much biffed it with last year's launch of Google TV because it couldn't get content partners to play along and provide...

Wait, what was Schmidt doing at a TV conference?

Aug 29, 2011
It's because Google TV is not dead, it was merely resting and now feels much better and thinks it will go for a walk. At that conference, Eric...

For public good, not for profit.

Miramax launches Facebook app for watching movies

Aug 22, 2011
Which...okay. I guess I could watch Good Will Hunting on Facebook. Seems a little weird. Maybe I want to Like it or quote favorite lines to my...

Google TV is a flop, chapter 487

Apr 29, 2011
Seems like we've talked about this since Google TV launched and instantly got blocked by all sorts of TV outlets. The latest indication is numbers...

Logitech suspends Google TV enabled Revue box?

Dec 27, 2010
That's the rumor coming out of China, as reported by DigiTimes (they seem to be serving up an awful lot of rumors lately, especially about the iPad...