Choosing to launch at a four-day ‘Internet Week New York’ event in New York City (USA), South Korean electronics company LG (through their American subdivision LG Electronics USA) have unveiled the concept of their much-anticipated new ’Google TV’ sets, confirming the physical result of their project partnership with the search engine provider in creating the basis of a smart [...]

Google are taking on Nielsen and releasing new audience measurement data for online advertisers as more money heads online and away from traditional TV. The new ad metric is called Active GRP, and announced in a blog post by vice president of Google, Neal Mohan. He said, “In the 1950s, brands slowly moved to TV, [...]

Google were once again the undeniable leader of online TV in terms of rankings, as the monthly Comscore ratings were revealed to show that it has taken in the most online viewers, cumulative viewing time, and average minutes in the USA online market, with over double the audiences produced by rival services. From a total of 37 billion ‘hits’ viewed by [...]

Google have made further hints that they are planning to enter the tablet computer market as their own brand (with a ’Google’ product name as opposed to ‘Android’), as company CEO Larry Page suggests that it will be designed with competition against the low-priced Amazon Kindle Fire in mind. Talking to financial analysts, he suggested that the [...]

Google’s planned high-profile augmented reality product rumoured to be called ‘Google Goggles’ have recently revealed the product in action, although at a cost of also unveiling a much less catchy name for the product, in the form of current working title ‘Google Project Glass’. The news was revealed at the end of last week via [...]

YouTube have agreed a deal with Paramount Pictures, one which sees a selection of 500 films from the studio’s archive made available for rental on the video streaming website (as well as Google Play), despite the fact that Google and Viacom (owners of Paramount) are currently involved in a $1b lawsuit against each other over piracy concerns. Announced yesterday, the agreement sees Paramount become [...]