Russian company starts Android based TV service

A Russian company known as NetUP has started a novel and latest TV set that works on Android 2.2. This TV permits users to access IPTV features such as surfing, social networking, gaming, YouTube, Skype, Google Maps and such other applications exclusive of using the normal set top box.

The TV set has been by now tested and its incorporated Android based IP STB supports the following technical distinctiveness:

• CPU: 1 GHz SAMSUNG S5PV210
• Flash memory: 1 GB
• RAM: 512MB DDR-2 RAM
• Interfaces: 2 x USB, SD/MMC Card Reader, HDMI In, Ethernet 10/100 Mbps
• Video formats: H.264/MPEG2 up to 1080p 30fps
• Supported containers: RAW/UDP/TS multicast, RTP/RTSP, MP4, AVI
• Audio formats: MPEG2 audio, AAC, AC-3, MP3
• Supported devices: Wi-Fi USB adapter, GPS USB module
• OS: Android 2.2

An Android based TV may immediately churn out to be an excellent solution for hotels and residences. In case of using normal IP STB, two devices such as TV and IP STB that are controlled by two different remotes are required in most cases. An Android based IP TV contradicts the requirement of having detached remotes; it offers a much enhanced interface at the same time as appropriate lucrative for the owners.

Google Street View Begins from Bengaluru in India

Google Street View cars as well as a Street View auto rickshaws have started shooting in Bengaluru also previously known as Bangalore, India. This is now the foremost juncture and it will be an even as before Google incarcerates the entire of the desirable images and developments of them. Only after that, they will be posted online.

"Just think that anyone is proficient enough to take a tour of the streets of Bangalore (Bengaluru) from whichever location in the world. Beginning from today, we are going to drive our Street View cars in Bengaluru," Nishant Nair, Program Manager and Manik Gupta, Product Manager, Google Maps, declared.



"Formerly the gathering procedure is comprehensive, Street View will be accessible in Bangalore on Google Maps, permitting users from World to right to use street-level imagery and virtually explore diverse streets in Bangalore. It will be as excellent as walking down the street from the console of your desktop or mobile device," they explicated.

Street View is at the present accessible in roughly 30 countries, after launching in the US in 2007. In a number of countries, it was congregated with confrontation from privacy officials and part of the public.

For instance, in Germany Google allowed citizens to choose to have their houses detached from the web site, before it go live online. It's the just place that Google has done this procedure to date, but it's been having problems in other countries as well.

This was made shoddier by the actuality that Google gathered payload WiFi data in the entire of the countries it functioned the service, by error it pronounces and impressive that it unveiled about a year ago.