Google is working with Intel, Sony and other partners to build up Google TV, a service aimed at placating the Internet search giant's Web offerings in people's living rooms, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Google TV will join the company's Android mobile OS and applications with television devices made for the Operating System, as well as set-top boxes, the paper says.
The TV technology will run on Intel's Atom chips, the report says, and Google will develop a new version of its Chrome browser for the TV project.

Google did not instantly react to requests for comment.

The use of Android for TV could place applications and further software developed for the Operating System on TVs in addition to smartphones, the devices the Operating System was designed for. The companies working on the project, which also reportedly incorporate Logitech, "envision technology that will make it simple for TV users to browse Web applications, like the Twitter social network and the Picasa photo site, as it is to change the channel," the New York Times says.

Some corporations have previously on track using Android in devices prepared for TVs, as well as set-top boxes and 2D/3D graphics accelerators, designed around MIPS Technologies' chip design. MIPS and its partners have work on completed the development Android to twist it for use in such devices.

Android was designed to work with Arm processing cores, the most famous cores in smartphones, but a few companies have ported Android to other chip dealing out architectures, as well as MIPS and Intel's x86 processing architecture.