What Google and Microsoft Been Up to Lately?

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Internet search giant Google has recently team up with huge TV producer Sony and largest silicon producer..........................Intel to make Google I/O.
"What's that?"

"Oh nothing much really, except it could make you access to Internet via your TV."

"Wow.... thats lame. I could have done that with my Xbox 360...pfffft...."

"Now now, its not what you think it is, your Xbox only allows you to play games online.... This allows you to watch movie online."

"So what? I could do that on my laptop as well... "

"Yup, except your laptop don't have a 42' screen and to sync it takes up time..."

A model phone of Intel's MID

While Sony has less to gain directly, but hey the 3 big names (along with Logitech) lend a lot of credibility to Jason Perlow’s idea of “The Screen.” Who needs a desktop when you can access all of your cloud-based apps and multi-task watching Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and cable content on a 42″ LCD? Who needs a laptop when your smartphone gives you all the communication and connectivity you need? Who needs an e-reader when that same smartphone displays EPUBs so nicely? (Let’s not forget the partnership that brought Google’s countless free scanned books to Sony’s Reader.) Who needs an iPod dock when all of your music is also stored in this entertainment hub and accessible in your home, on your smartphone, or on your terminal at work, since the technology to share your home media collection (sitting in an Atom/Android-powered, Sony-branded set-top box in your living room) over the Internet is so mature?


Moving on to Microsoft.... They recently revealed a computer that doesn't require any mouse or keyboard. Cool huh? Sadly it cost about US$5,000 to 10,000 for one heck of a computer and it's gonna be available this November and its gonna be 2 years before we manage to see one in our house. Check out the cool demo.



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