In today’s Remainders: the next step. For John Grisham, it’s e-books. For the television-viewing public, it’s viewing television while surfing the web. For Google, it’s controlling the internet. And for NVIDIA, it’s releasing GeForce drivers that don’t melt your rig. More

We knew vaguely that Google was looking toward the living room , but the NYTimes has the details on Google TV, an ambitious platform to deliver web content to Android-based set-top boxes and TVs through partnerships with Sony, Intel, and Logitech. More

One of the more interesting things you can do with the iPhone is use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two years ago, developers have created hundreds of remote control applications. More

Fake Steve Jobs (Newsweek’s Dan Lyons) is teaming up with director Larry Charles ( Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat ) to produce a “TV” show on streaming service EPIX . More

Problem: Nvidia’s GeForce GPU can display 3D, but in a different standard than the HDMI 1.4 plug that the upcoming crop of 3D TVs are going to use. Solution: Nvidia’s 3DTV Play software, which reconciles the difference. That was easy! More

Problem: Nvidia’s GeForce GPU can display 3D, but in a different standard than the HDMI 1.4 plug that the upcoming crop of 3D TVs are going to use. Solution: Nvidia’s 3DTV Play software, which reconciles the difference. That was easy! More

I’ve always maintained Titanic was James Cameron’s career acme, and it seems even he can’t face doing another 3D movie from scratch, after spending 15 years and over $200m making Avatar. More

Battlestar Galactica is one of the best TV shows of the last decade. And the Beastie Boys ‘ Sabotage video is one of the best music videos, well, ever. What happens when you combine the two? Sweet, sweet perfection. More

We thought that Google’s Reader Play is perfect for tablet computers , but the New York Times ‘ Nick Bilton has other ideas. He thinks that the feature is perfect for TVs and other larger screens. [ NYT ] More

Both Samsung and Panasonic will be flogging 3DTVs in the US by the end of the month, but don’t expect to see anything from Sony until June at least. Details on the LX900, HX900 and HX800 do sound tantalizing however. Japan will start selling the sets on June 10th, with the rest of the world expected to follow suit sometime soon after. Already Sony’s making the bold claim that they’ll be much cheaper than Panasonic’s 3DTV sets—in Japan, anyway. Akihabara News attended the press launch of of the LX900, HX900 and HX800 3D sets in Japan, which are all of the “monolithic” design, and came back blushing with the news that the LX900 series is the one to aim for.