Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google, Sony, and Intel have teamed up to develop a new platform called Google TV. The internet-enabled televisions and set-top boxes will allow users to navigate Web applications such as Picasa, and social networking sites like Twitter with their remote control. Several sites report that the new system will be based on [...]

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google plans to add status-updates similar to Twitter to its Gmail, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing "people familiar with the matter." The new feature could go live as early as this week and comes at a time of hyper-competitive activity among social networking, media and search sites as they [...]

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Social Search service, which includes public content from users' social networks such as blogs and tweets in search results, is moving to Google.com from the company's Labs site. Google will let English-language users of its search engine see relevant links to items their social-networking contacts have posted publicly on the Web. [...]