John Paczkowski in News on December 8, 2011 at 2:55 pm PT
Google chairman struck by bizarre Google TV vision at Le Web conference.
Google TV or a child of Google TV or the grandchild of Google TV will happen. The integration of television in Internet is inevitable. But the idea that it would happen overnight in Christmas 2010 was very misguided and that also cost us dearly.
Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca during his company’s analyst day this week, describing his company’s failed Google TV/“Revue” boxes as a “mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature”
Ina Fried in Media on October 28, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
The software update will bring Android Market and Honeycomb to existing devices, with an overhaul of the user interface.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 17, 2011 at 6:04 pm PT
Walt tests four combination keyboard cases and a full-size keyboard accessory designed to make the iPad 2 more typing-friendly.
Sales of Logitech Revue were slightly negative during the quarter, as returns of the product were higher than the very modest sales.
— Logitech explaining the nonperformance of its Google TV box during the company’s second quarter (from SplatF via GigaOm). Logitech has now slashed the price on the box from $249 to $99, and Logitech CEO Gerald Quindlen has resigned.
John Paczkowski in News on July 12, 2011 at 10:44 am PT
Intellectual Ventures sues Hynix, Dell, HP and a slew of other companies for patent infringement.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 4, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Google TV may not have gotten much in the way of ratings in its first season, but the pilot has been renewed. This year, though, Google will attempt to reposition the device as more of a companion to a traditional TV provider than as its replacement. Sources say the next version will be detailed in the coming months and is expected to debut in time to land on devices that sell this holiday season.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 3, 2011 at 5:38 pm PT
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there will be more than 35 exhibitors from the gaming industry, ranging from Nintendo, which hasn’t attended in 16 years, to Microsoft, which will hopefully provide a sales update for the Kinect, its popular hands-free Xbox accessory.
Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 27, 2010 at 8:20 pm PT
It’s been far from smooth sailing in the early days of Google TV. But partner Logitech International insists the winds are beginning to blow its direction.
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Peter Kafka in Media on December 24, 2010 at 8:11 am PT
Google has reportedly told some of its partners to
hold off introducing new versions of Google TV. So this one at least
sounds right: Google has supposedly told Logitech to stop shipping its version of the Google TV box while Google upgrades the software. The catch: This report comes from
DigiTimes, which is sometimes quite accurate about the Chinese supply chain for consumer electronics, but also misses the mark with some frequency
