ISB Corp assimilates Android into STB

Netbooks and digital picture frames aren't the only new territory Google's Android can be found exploring. ISB Corp is tinkering with the platform as a way of powering a set-top box. A reference board powered by TI's OMAP 3530 processor was on display last week, strutting its video playback and web browsing capabilities at the 12th Embedded Systems Expo in Tokyo, and there the company said it was in the process of optimizing the software for a smooth HD video experience. It's also reportedly demonstrating support for wireless keyboards and Bluetooth. Frankly, we haven't been 100 percent sold on a lot of these Android implementations, but there's definitely potential here. Hopefully we can get some more glimpses of it in the not too distant future.

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 9:55PM]

I demand an Android OS update for my PCH A-110!!!

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2009 4:36PM]

Pay very close attention to this. This is the future and it will be for goodwill first (assistve and educational), which is SO NOT the microsoft approach. This will change the game all together unless apple can flank them. MSFT is still infighting on this front with Xbox, i mean pocket pc, i mean media center, i mean vista, or home server or zune or whatever! And that is just the product set collision/conflict, that does not reflect all the ISV's, pundits/experts and CI that are p'n on each other as to what is going to win in the msft stack. IT's like a big, diconnected, angry and dysfuntional family of EGO Maniacs.. What a cluster fudge. Microsoft so reminds me of DEC circa 1990 ;) Let's see VMS? DecNet? Alpha Unix variation? How about windows? DOS? IT's so confusing. "let's just crumble..." LOL