If staying abreast of a thousand happenings in your world, be it what’s happening on Flickr, how many friend requests you got on Facebook, what’s the temperature in the city your long-distance girlfriend lives is your forte, then you might be happy to know that in the near future all that might be possible, without having to glare into the computer all day. Well, you will be glaring into something for sure, but that’s the TV set, yeah the same thing that is supposedly expected to allow you to kick back and relax.
I don’t see much of a problem with relaxation there, considering it’s easier to be relaxed when you’re able to keep a tab on everything that concerns you and your loved ones right? Intel and Yahoo have announced plans for a new Widget Channel this week during IDF, a widget platform for consumer electronic devices running on Intel’s hardware. The platform will support a number of current technologies, including JavaScript, HTML, XML, and mostly notably Adobe Flash, which many current platforms on CE devices don’t support just yet.
The bad news is that you may not be able to lay your hands in on this great discovery anytime soon, worse still if you have an idiot box that doesn’t have Intel Inside it, and need to wait until you can get your hands on a device with the Media Processor CE 3100, which was also announced Thursday. Interesting to say the least, and if you’re asking for my take on this, I am definitely all for it.
