Google is working with Intel, Sony, and other partners to develop Google TV, a service to offer Web search services on the Internet giant to make people’s living rooms, the New York Times reports Wednesday.

Google TV will incorporate the operating system Android, and mobile applications with television equipment, including set-top boxes, paper says.

Television technology will run on Intel Atom and the Google Chrome browser will develop a new version for television projects.

In a similar report, Wall Street Journal also has some information like that. Both articles are quoted from sources not name Google was not immediately meet the requirements review.

Use Android for TV can put applications and other software to develop the operating system on TV. How TV users can switch easily web applications like Twitter and social networking sites Picasa photos, just by changing the channel. “The New York Times to believe Google will open television platform initiative is part of the Android developers with software development tools.

Some companies have started to use Android in equipment for TV, including set-top boxes and 2D/3D graphics, designed the architecture MIPS chip technology. MIPS and its partners have done development on Android, refine it suitable for use in devices like that.

Android is designed to work with Arm processor core, the core of the most popular smart phones, but some companies have transferred Android architecture processor chips, including the MIPS architecture and processor Management of the Intel x86.

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