Google Introduces Google TV, New Android OS

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft and Apple have been trying to get into your living room for years, with a variety of television-oriented products. Google TV, which is based on Google's Android operating system, will have access to Flickr, gaming sites such as Club Penguin, and music sites such as Pandora and Rhapsody. "There are three big limitations with the streaming media devices that exist today," said Rishi Chandra, senior product manager at Google, speaking at the company's developer conference, Google I/O. Google has formed partnerships with Sony, Logitech and Intel to create hardware that will run this "smart TV" Android platform. Three years after Google introduced Android as an open source mobile operating system, it has become one of the fastest-growing mobile platforms.