Google, Sony and Intel as a system is going to develop a close partnership in launching with "Google TV" to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. The partners envision technology that will make it as easy for TV users to navigate Web applications, like the Twitter social network and the Picasa photo site, as it is to change the channel. Google intends to open the Google TV platform, which is based on its Android operating system for cellphones, to software developers in the hopes of spurring the same creativity that the consumers have seen in phone apps. According to The Wall Street Journal , Google (Google) will unveil the Android (Android)-based television platform at its annual developer event in San Francisco on May 19 and 20.