Taken from PCWorld Magazine, August 2010

Google has entered a partnership with Intel and Sony to create Google TV, the company recently announced.  As explained at its unveiling, Google TV is an ambitious attempt to bake Google’s Android software into TVs, Blu-ray players and a Google set-top box called Buddy Box.

The plan is clearly a challenge to devices and services like Apple TV, the Boxee Box, and TiVo – and to some extent, to cable itself.  The goal is to fuse the Web with TV sets in a way that other Internet-connected televisions have not.  That is, Google TV is an open platform free of the restructions on other Internet TV sets and powered by hardware that can handle Flash.

Google TV will be available in set-top boxes and televisions this fall, according to the announcement, with Sony and Logitech as hardware partners.