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Logitech Revue with Google TV turns any tv into a smart tv. It brings together tv, the full web, apps, movies and more and puts control of it all at your fingertips.

Highlights of Logitech revue

- Seamless Search: Now it's easy to find, watch and share something

# on your HDTV, regardless of where it comes from. Just type what you want in the search bar. Search the Web for your favorite YouTube video

# Find a classic TV re-run or your latest prime time network programs

# Watch the latest blockbuster movie

# Tune in to the big game and check your fantasy league standings at the same time

- Endless Entertainment: Logitech Revue with Google TV brings together all of your entertainment

# Compatible DVR recordings

# Your photos, music and videos

# One simple-to-use interface, instead of switching devices or locations

# No extra monthly fees

# in one place...your HDTV. Now you can enjoy: Your cable or satellite programming

# The full Web

# Apps designed especially for your TV

- Full Web: Finally you can go anywhere and do anything on the Web on your HDTV. We're talking full access—not just a small number of web sites

# Seamlessly access the Web while watching TV, switching with a click

# See both simultaneously with the Dual View feature

- Expandable: Logitech Revue makes your HDTV a whole lot smarter in minutes with accessories and apps that let you do what TVs have never done before including: HD video calling
# Online gaming
# Access to Android Market coming soon

- Intuitive Control: Your Logitech Keyboard Controller is way more than a remote. It's a wireless remote control, keyboard, and touch pad in one

# Works with all your entertainment devices so you can put the other remotes away

# Use it to turn on the TV, type, search, rewind, and more

# Comes with a free app that lets you control Google TV from your smartphone

- Apps, Photos & More: There's a whole world of Android apps made for your TV room that let you do much more than watch.

#Get started with pre-installed apps like Netflix, so you can access your queue

# Stay tuned for an explosion of apps coming soon

Accessories & Apps

Logitech TV Cam:

Want to make and receive high-definition video calls, right from your television? Connect a Logitech TV Cam and say hello in HD.

Logitech Mini Controller:

Looking for the perfect small companion to your Logitech Revue or other Google TV system? Add a thumb-sized keyboard, touch pad and remote combo that looks cool and saves space on the coffee table.

Logitech Keyboard Controller:
Want great control for your other Google TV-powered systems still to come? You got it—remote control, keyboard, and touch pad in one.

Logitech Harmony app for Android, iPhone, iPod touch & iPad:

Want to control Google TV right from your pocket? Simply choose your smartphone and take control.

Logitech declared a new HD webcam which it claims perfects the video conferencing experience at its Google TV press conference.

The Logitech TV Cam will be released alongside the new Revue Google TV set-top box at the end of October.

It can capture video at 720p and boasts a Carl Zeiss autofocus, low-light optimised lens, capable of zooming and panning around the living room.

The camera will work with a new calling client called "Logitech Vid HD" which will be featured as a channel on the new Revue set-top box, but will work with any Mac and PC running the program and also it takes on Skype.

The camera, judging from pictures shot at the event, appears to be much larger than your average webcam and also has a neat little LED light which will inform users when they have missed a call.

The New York media event, Logitech announced the first Google TV products to hit the market; the $299 Logitech revue set-top box and a full QWERTY keyboard remote control.

Microsoft will launch its latest mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone 7, in New York on October 11, according to an announcement on its website, although Microsoft has given no further details about its.

The event invitation says the operating system will be unveiled next Monday at 3pm in the New York City Microsoft Technology Center.

Windows Phone 7 is an attempt by Microsoft to regain ground in the mobile phone sector. Apple's iPhone, Research In Motion's BlackBerry and Google's Android have all taken market share from Microsoft mobile operating system over the past few years.

Microsoft has high hopes for Windows Phone 7, the successor to the company’s popular but much-maligned Windows Mobile platform.