By Aldo Cugnini DisplayCentral Google has announced that it is investing more in their two popular platforms — Android and Chrome — with the goal of making it easier to move content and functions between one’s phone, tablet, laptop, TV, car or bodyware. Two weeks ago, Google welcomed 6,000 developers to their 7th annual Google […]

VIZIO announced today the launch of something called Co-Star – a streaming video player that uses the latest version of Google TV. With VIZIO’s Co-Star, users get instant access to thousands of apps, full-screen web browsing capabilities-via Google Chrome with Adobe Flash Player and HTML 5 support-and the best in streaming entertainment. Unique to the stream player market, […]

It was supposed to save TV makers all the trouble of launching and maintaining their own Internet web sites and, in theory, Google’s long history of delivering search data online could be leveraged to finally conquer the television programming guide, with a catch-all guide that would allow users never to miss another episode of Psych […]

Google plans to acquire VoIP codec developer Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for approximately 421 million Norwegian kronor (US$68.2 million). GIPS develops codecs for encoding real-time video and voice signals into a digital format for transport over IP networks. Its portfolio of products includes software that can be integrated into voice and video apps for mobile […]