Google TV announced, Sony and Google in collaboration.

[joeorc]

czecherychestnut said:

Legend11 said:

maximus22 said:
Everything Google touches turns to gold so this is probably a good move for Sony.

Speaking of that here's an interesting article:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html

This one will probably make it to the top of that list since they couldn't even get Google Player off the ground and this will be orders of magnitude harder to pull off.

That has been Google's strategy though, throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks. They have the money to do it that way, I mean last year they made a yearly profit of around $US10 billion, and they have a pretty big kitty saved up for a rainy day. Not to mention many of these products are the pet projects of individual employees at Google which get Google's blessing to turn into an actual product.

I don't know if this will work either, but having TV's with built in Android or ChromeOS would be great.

for over the past 6 month's Google has been buying an indie company or even more of those little companies a month...

recent:

Google to buy VoIP, videoconferencing company

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005225-264.html

another from feb 2010

Google snapped up Remail on Wednesday, and the first thing it did was to cut Remail's ties with Apple's App Store.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10455446-265.html

an another one in FEB 2010

Google buys social media site Aardvark

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/02/google-buys-social-media-site-aardvark.htm

call it an obsession, or a internet communication's kick, the fact that Google is doing this is quite an eye opener.