Google to Push Android OS in India and China

Do not even think that Android-based smartphones have always been expensive mobile devices. As a matter of fact, your notions can be changed. It turns out that Google is going to push the Android OS on low-cost mobile devices in the markets of China and India. 
 

Vice president of Engineering at Google, Andy Rubin revealed in his recent interview that the down-market opportunity can happen. It can be regarded as a revolution. In order to reach this dream, Google facilitates the way for app developers to accept payments from apps and offer subscriptions so as to make more money from Android. Such handset manufacturers as LG and Huawei are planning to take advantage of the Android OS.

Actually, such a move comes after it was revealed that Android is ready to pip iOS of Apple sometime in 2012 in order to become the second most popular mobile operating system in the world being behind Symbin OS of Nokia.

Source:  Freshnews.in

Google Introduces Web Software for TV

Google found new way to generate revenue through their new software which enables web content on television to encourage viewers to use internet in their living room and view advertisements to generate revenue.

Google TV empowered with Intel Corp, Sony Corp and Logitech International.

The companies are trying to benefit from growing demand for Web-based programming and information on large screens, in more rooms of the house. Google, with the largest share of online advertising, wants a slice of the $175-billion TV-ad market. Intel aims to land its chips, already in about 80 percent of the world’s personal computers, into a wider range of electronics.

“Television is becoming the true third window, with the computer and the phone, allowing you to access what you want when you want it,” Eric Kim, who heads Intel’s digital home division, said in an interview. “The dumb tube is turning into an intelligent device, a smart TV.”

Google TV serves as an “entertainment hub” that lets viewers search channels, recorded shows and web sites, Google said in a video on its YouTube entertainment site.

The company isn’t currently selling ads specifically designed for the new platform, said Rishi Chandra, a product manager at Google. Users could see Google’s ads as they browse web sites when accessing the Internet on the new TV service.

“We want to get the product experience right first,” Chandra said. “Over time, there will be opportunities to really rethink how ads can actually work better on this TV experience.”

The service will include video-on-demand products from Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Hulu, a video site partly owned by Walt Disney Co., Google said at the conference.

“There is still no better medium to reach a wider and broader audience than the television,” Rishi said during the company’s developers’ conference in San Francisco. “Video should be consumed on the biggest and brightest screen in the house.”

Google has adapted a version of its Android software and Chrome Internet browser to display television programming from cable and satellite sources and video from the Web. Applications that have been written for existing versions of Android, used in mobile phones, will now work on television screens.
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