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Google Glass: Running with Screens—Or Not
Michael Antonoff  |  Aug 09, 2013
A home theater display is more riveting and safer to operate than any mobile screen, yet tech pundits are abuzz over Glass, Google’s high-tech eyewear. Indeed, the spectacles’ first-generation specifications are compelling.
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Google Home Edges Up on Amazon Echo in Smart Speaker Wars
SV Staff  |  May 04, 2018
Source: eMarketer. Note: Individuals of any age who use a smart speaker at least once per month; smart speaker users are not mutually exclusive; there is overlap between groups.

Amazon is still the runaway leader in the voice-controlled smart speaker category it created in 2014 but Google and other players are slowly catching up, according to the latest research from eMarketer.

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Google May Take on iTunes Store
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 16, 2010
Look out, iTunes. You may be about to get your most formidable competition yet with the persistent rumors that Google is preparing to launch a music download and streaming service in October.
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Google Steps Up its Smart Speaker Game
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2017
Google announced a more powerful smart speaker last week along with along with an Echo Dot-like device designed to make its Google Assistant more accessible throughout the home.
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Google Super Charges Song Identification Tool
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2018
Google has introduced a “faster, more accurate” version of its Sound Search music identification tool and integrated it into the Now Playing feature introduced last year on its Pixel 2 smartphone.
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Google Tests TV Search
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 25, 2010
Google makes life easier in so many ways. Soon it may become useful in a new way: searching TV content.
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Google TV brings the internet, apps to your home theater
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010
  You have to go out of your way these days to find a TV maker that isn't already cramming proprietary web apps into their displays and devices, but Google has changed the game a bit with today's announcement of their new 10-foot...
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Google TV Coming This Fall
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 21, 2010
Sony and Logitech will be the first manufacturers to produce Google TV devices, it was announced yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. And the Dish Network will be the first video provider to feature Google TV.
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Google TV gets a new website, app preview video
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2010
  We're curious to say the least about what will happen when Google TV  finally lands in the hands of the general public, but today Google unleashed a video preview of their new applications and it's looking very promising. The...
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Google TV Hits
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 13, 2010
The long awaited Google TV products from Sony and Logitech were officially announced yesterday. They'll offer a seamless blend of broadcast/satellite TV and internet video programming with Google search capability. But is it worth the asking price?
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Google TV Juggernaut Slows
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 21, 2010
Google has requested that TV makers not make Google TV related product announcements at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

According to The New York Times, which broke the story last week, Google wants to "refine the software, which has received a lukewarm reception." The newspaper cited similar delays in Android-related tablets whose debuts have been pushed into the future, adding: "Industry analysts also say Google's sudden change of plans reflects a weakness in the company's business culture around managing relationships with partners."

In addition to current Google TV products from Sony and Logitech, Samsung will show a Google TV at CES. But the Times says LG, Sharp, and Toshiba will not. No others were raising their heads above the parapet at presstime.

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Google TV Launch Nears
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 06, 2010
The launch of Google TV is drawing nigh. So far we know that the technology will be built into products including Sony TVs and Blu-ray players, a Dish Network DVR, and a Logitech set-top box. Now some other details are falling into place.
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Google working on set-top TV boxes
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2010
Google is gearing up to take on television, according to a New York Times report. The project seems to be a joint venture between Google, Intel, Sony, and Logitech. The Times says it will result in a Google TV set-top box running on Google's...
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Google’s Answer to Amazon’s Echo
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2016
Amazon created a whole new product category with Echo, the immensely popular voice-controlled speaker/personal assistant. Its success has Sonos scrambling to stay relevant and prompted Denon to accelerate the development of a voice interface for its products.
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GooTube to Go Legit
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 03, 2007
When last we checked on YouTube, the Google-owned site was having trouble keeping its promises to the entertainment industry. Users were illicitly posting copyrighted material and the legal bills mounted. By September, the YouTubers hope, all that will change.
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