On the heels of rumors that Google TV will be unveiled at Google's I/O conference in San Francisco in May comes a report by The Financial Times that gives a name to the project: Smart TV.
Few new details are revealed in the report; Google's hardware partners are still Intel and Sony. The hardware will likely consist of a set-top box based on Intel's Atom CPU and Google's Android OS, while Sony is slated to reveal the plan to integrate web services into its televisions.
The Financial Times also claims that Google will call on its Android community to start working on apps for TVs. This would give Android a whole new dimension and a certain advantage over its main rival, the iPhone OS, which is confined to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
According to a report out this morning, revenues from apps on TVs should increase from $10 million in 2010 to $1.9 billion by 2015. With Apple focusing (quite unsuccessfully) on Apple TV, could Google's Android TV be the first to corner a significant emerging market?