Google’s not saying much about it, but one can’t help but think the company’s late-week acquisition of open-source home theatre and DVR software developer SageTV is related to its struggling Google TV offering.
Google didn’t spend a whole ton of time talking about Google TV today, but here’s what’s up in a nutshell, after it’s updated to be Honeycomb-based later this winter. Three biggies:
The latest Samsung announcement out of CES is that they’re going to be releasing two new Google TV products: a Blu-ray player and a set-top box, complete with a specialised QWERTY remote.
Next month is CES – you could call it the highlight of the tech industry’s calendar, but I prefer calling it “hell”. You’d think we’d be seeing heaps of new Google TV hardware there. But no – Google isn’t ready.
