Financial Express: Google and LG Electronics may unveil a television using the search giant’s software at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to sources. The product would be LG’s first model with Google TV, the sources added. Support from the world’s second-largest TV manufacturer may boost Google’s attempt to bring its dominance
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in Internet search to living rooms with the Google TV software. Last month, Google introduced a redesigned television service after sales of its initial version didn’t meet some expectations. Claire Jang, a spokeswoman for Seoul-based LG, and Robin Moroney, a Tokyo-based spokesman for Google, declined to comment on the discussions between the two companies. Google, pushing into areas that boost competition with rivals Apple and Microsoft , unveiled the TV service last year with partners Sony,
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Logitech International SA and Dish Network. LG and Samsung Electronics are embracing the Internet and 3-D images to revive TV demand amid a plunge in set prices. Sony has forecast an eighth straight year of losses at its TV business. The revamped version of the TV service Google unveiled last month has a simpler interface. The upgrade was designed to show the YouTube video-sharing service better and opens up the platform for Android developers to build applications for TV. Source: Financial Express
