Android on your phone can send texts, perform searches, set alarms and execute plenty of other tasks with little more than a simple voice command. Google TV is, for all intents and purposes, just Android blown up to fill your 42-inch TV — so it would only make sense that Voice Actions might one day come to the Mountain View-branded set top solution. Well, a patent application filed back in September hints that just such a thing is on its way
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Patent application hints at Voice Actions for Google TV
If you’ve been relying on a satellite modem for your daily dose of the Internet, you’re probably all too familiar with sub-1Mbps download speeds and an overall painful experience. That’s exactly why we’ve been so impressed with ViaSat and its new 12Mbps down, 3Mbps up Exede residential satellite broadband product . Yesterday, we journeyed deep into Camp Pendleton near San Diego to test out those 12/3Mbps speeds on the go-anywhere SurfBeam 2 Pro Portable , and now we’re back to play around with the enterprise setup’s more stationary sibling, the SurfBeam 2 Pro. 
Logitech’s Q3 earnings for the 2012 fiscal year don’t have many surprises since the company already revealed it was dropping out of the Google TV team . In prepared remarks, company management confirmed it is completely sold out of new units, closing the door on any users still trying to nab a $99 Revue (who shouldn’t be too heartbroken, since Vizio is promising a second gen unit is on the way at the same price). There is promise however, if you’re looking for a new Harmony remote model, while interim CEO Guerrino De Luca says the company is late in providing a successor to the best selling Harmony One and other models, resulting in a 30 percent drop in sales, it plans to strengthen the lineup “in the coming months.” In other segments, it’s seeing growth in those iPad accessory keyboards , for more details check the press release embedded after the break or in the PDFs linked below
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After Vizio gave the world a preview of its PC and tablet plans it also announced plans for new HDTVs and a couple of set-top boxes, so we couldn’t resist traveling back over to its Wynn-based lounge to view the beasts in their natural habitat. We won’t make too much of it, but if you read last year’s hands-on preview , unfortunately much of this is similar, as we mentioned when they were announced — much of this tech was originally planned to ship in 2011
About six months after we first heard Comcast would release a Skype webcam built for its cable boxes Wireless Goodness has uncovered the FCC filing for just such a unit. 
If all those TV shows haven’t completely eroded your short term memory, you may recall the time we spent with Dijit’s remote control app , way back in early December. The company tells us that it’s finally ready for prime time, taking advantage of the extra screen real estate the Apple tablet has to offer. The app lets you use the iPad to control your Roku and Griffin Beacon
