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Yahoo! and Intel have announced a plan to bring computer-style widgets to TV screens. The idea behind the Widget Channel is to take familiar software technologies to an emerging platform. The two companies have teamed up because Intel's Media Processor CE 3100 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed for use in consumer electronics products including Internet-connected set-top boxes and digital TVs, while Yahoo! already has the software that actually runs widgets, including the software libraries that support them.
Quoting:Widget Channel widgets will be written using JavaScript, XML. HTML and Flash, so the technical barriers to entry will be low, yet skilled developers will be able to create sophisticated functions.
Great. Yet another device I need to worry about with JavaScript exploits, popups and flash vulnerabilities. A TV should only do what it does best: be a big-ass display.
Quoting:A TV should only do what it does best: be a big-ass display.
Hmm, when it comes to Yahoo!, what a TV does best is being an add-platform.
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Great. Yet another device I need to worry about with JavaScript exploits, popups and flash vulnerabilities. A TV should only do what it does best: be a big-ass display.