More partners for Google TV by Zuzana Zelenakova

In May, Google announced the plans for Google TV. The most dominant entity on the web clearly wants to dominate also the television sphere. Google TV based on the Android operating system was developed in cooperation with technology industry giants such as Intel, Sony and Logitech. One of the truly interesting features about the whole TV platform is that you can for example use your Android-based phone as a remote and also to speak the commands. When you connect to Google TV over Wi-Fi you can talk to the phone and the results will appear on the screen. There is also a translation possibility while watching any program on live TV. The service is set to be launched in the U! S this month, while European users will have to wait till the next year. The exact date is yet to be confirmed by Google. Now the company has announced some more partners that will help with the TV´s content and applications. These include for example Vevo, Pandora, and Napster. Ambarish Kenghe, developer product manager of Google TV announced Monday that the company has also started a cooperation with “some leading technology and media companies to optimise their content for Google TV, including news sites like The New York Times and USA today…., information networks like Twitter and online networks like blip.tv.”. “In addition, we’ve partnered with some of the leading premium content providers to bring thousands of movie and TV titles, on-demand, directly to your television. Amazon Video On Demand offers access to over 75,000 titles for rental or purchase, and Netflix will offer the ability to instantly watch unlimited movies and TV show! s, anytime, streaming directly to the TV," he added. Google is! not the only one among Internet and electronics companies to come up with the idea of television. Yahoo and Apple did that some time ago.

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by Zuzana Zelenakova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with f! ree phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.