TELEVISION : INTERNET: Intel Unites the Internet with TV

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Intel Unites the Internet with TV

Intel Unites the Internet with TV
Maggie Shiels,
Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco
Intel has signed a deal with Yahoo to enhance the way people use their TVs by adding internet applications.
BBC News
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7573331.stm>

The collaboration will produce a Widget Channel that lets viewers e-mail friends, trade shares or check the weather while watching programmes.

The internet-based services will run on a new set of Intel chips designed specifically for web-connected devices.

"This is not a copy of a PC on TV," said Eric Kim, head of Intel's digital home group.

"We are setting a new bar and delivering a richer internet experience to TV like never before," he said.

Unveiling the alliance at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Mr Kim said previous efforts to unite the net and TV had failed because the internet stopped people using their set for its prime function – watching programmes.

'Beam me up Scotty'

With TV available in more than 1.3 billion households worldwide there was no doubt, he said, about its ubiquity.

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