Intel has teamed with Yahoo! to create a television application framework which could bring a range of Internet-like services to the TV.

Dubbed the Widget Channel, it will use Yahoo’s fifth-generation applications platform optimised for traditional TVs. It will allow developers to use JAVASCRIPT, XML, HTML and Adobe Flash technology to write TV applications for the platform.

“TV will fundamentally change how we talk about, imagine and experience the Internet,”" said Eric Kim, Intel senior v-p and general manager of the company's digital home group.

It is one of the first CE-optimised system-on-chip platforms to use the Intel architecture.

"Our work has produced an exciting application framework upon which the industry can collaborate, innovate and differentiate,” said Kim.

“We plan to combine the Internet benefits of open user choice, community, and personalisation with the performance and scale embodied in the Intel Architecture to transform traditional TV into something bigger, better and more exciting than ever before,” said Marco Boerries, executive v-p, Connected Life at Yahoo!