Samsung Electronics is diving into connected TVs just like the other big companies that have made presentations today at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Samsung said it will team up with Yahoo to deliver TV Widgets and other web applications that run on TVs. (Notice that nobody is teaming up with Google on this front.) The widgets are compact apps that let you interact with your favorite web sites via remote control. They deliver things like local weather or communication with your friends.

Yahoo vice president Patrick Barry demoed the user interface of the Yahoo Widget Engine, which Samsung is using. He said it lets TV viewers access the best of the web. It looks pretty cool as long as it works as quickly as advertised on stage. Samsung also has alliances with Pandora and Netflix.

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