TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants - NYTimes.com

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"The rise of Apple and Google in the smartphone market has pushed Nokia and Research In Motion to the brink of irrelevance. Now, television makers are scrambling to make sure the same does not happen to them.
At the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, Toshiba, LG Electronics and Philips Electronics said they were banding together to develop a common system that would let people listen to music, watch videos and play games via the Internet on television sets."

TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants - NYTimes.com