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Google TV adds gaming with OnLive

2012-01-12
it's Thursday January 12 2012 day 3 the consumer electronics show at the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Bridget Carey and we're nearing the final stretch of the show but there's still much cool tech to buzz about so it's time to get loaded google TV just got a little sweeter as it announced it would support the onlive gaming service on live is a cloud gaming service that lets users play console quality games on PCs tablets and now that includes anyone with a google TV timing hasn't been announced yet the on live all you can play game you package is ten dollars a month and right now includes about 40 games every verizon smartphone tablet and hotspot device going forward will be 4g LTE yes that even includes BlackBerry's and windows phones the only exception will be verizon's push-to-talk phones they have to stay on 3g for the time being verizon said its LTE infrastructure will be completed by the end of 2013 the 4G network currently covers 190 US markets we see quite a few prototype devices at the show and sony has been teasing the crowd with a couple sleek prototype tablets the first is a rounded tablet with quite an unusually thick frame it comes with a separate light up keyboard sony also displayed a tablet with a thin bronze keyboard at a speaker docking station sony also made another surprising announcement yesterday it's music unlimited service a cloud-based streaming music service will be available on iOS devices through a free app sony is allowing its content to be accessed outside the typical sony product line like the playstation it's also coming to Google TV so Music Unlimited now sits among competing music streaming services like Spotify your kindle books are going to get more snazzy soon amazon just released tools for creating books using the website formatting tools like HTML and CSS that means publishers can have books with rich formatting and design like cookbooks kids books or graphic novels kindle fire tablets will be the first to take advantage of the new programming formats and it will be later rolled out to the other kindle ink devices it's a good day for Microsoft Bing just became the number two search engine behind Google surpassing Yahoo is the first time ever Bing has surpassed Yahoo being carved out fifteen percent of the market share just a sliver more than yahoo in december according to market researcher comscore and the first android watch is a hit here at the show because well it actually looks attractive to where it's called the imma watch from a company in italy and it's about the size of an ipod nano but with curved glass and comes in any material you want even gold it comes with a music player twitter facebook weather and a bluetooth connection means it can display the caller ID from your smartphone when someone calls those are your headlines for today and be sure to stay tuned to see net for more live CES coverage and to find the winners of our best of CES awards I'm Bridget Carey and thanks for watching
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