If you think that being able to watch shows on the web is fascinating then brace yourselves for this news outbreak. Thanks to the joint efforts of Yahoo and Intel, widgets will be inserted into Internet TV, allowing users to be able to customize their Internet TV as they wish. Pretty cool huh?

Well technology will always find a way to surprise you. Apparently this new use of widgets have only made the pot a lot sweeter. With such an option and privilege given to you, what else has technology failed to impress us with? And this is just the beginning meaning there will be more advancements to be offered along the way as this initial offering should be seen more of as a basic step towards helping technology make the Internet a better and flexible place to work on.

Intel and internet major Yahoo! is bring Internet to television screens in Widget Channel. The channel will allow viewers to customise their TV screens with a swathe of internet services including eBay listings, weather, financial news and Twitter updates.

A further move towards the convergence between television and the internet, The Widget Channel is the result of a collaboration between Yahoo and technology manufacturer Intel.

Intel is building the hardware for the service to work in a series of digital televisions and set-top boxes.

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Once this is settled, expect a wide demand for these TV boxes as most users are expected to check out the benefits that this partnership will eventually vent out. It only gets sweeter so in the coming months, expect more improvements as we go along.

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