Yahoo has announced partnerships with consumer electronics manufacturers Samsung, Sony, LG Electronics and Vizo to provide TV widgets to a new line of Internet connected television sets.

LG Electronics has announced it will start selling a new Blu-ray DVD player that will allow Netflix customers to watch movies and TV shows streamed directly from the Internet to their TV sets.

Engadget Mobile often has some intriguing glimpses of what may be in our future.

Online movie rental service Netflix and LG Electronics are partnering to develop a set-top box for people to watch video content from the Internet to high-definition TVs.

There’s fresh news about the YouTube phone, and I’ve got to admit, it sounds pretty cool.  Everything but the name, anyway: “Viewty”?  But the LG KU990, as it’s also known, should have a lot of interesting features.

LG’s recent Google phone (the KU580) received a small amount of buzz – perhaps proportional to the area in which it was launched.  Now there’s word that a YouTube phone is on the way, yet it may be a while before the device reaches American shores.

CrunchGear blogger Seth Porges thinks the iPhone will bomb, and he makes a good case for it, even if it seems counterintuitive at first.

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone last month – you remember, when the Internet went into a collective paroxysm, speaking in tongues and falling into ecstatic prostration at Steve Jobs feet – many of us observers said, "hey, wait a minute. Didn’t LG just win a prize for a phone just like that?"

LG Electronics has 64,082 employees, a chairman and CEO who goes by the name “S.S. Kim,” and almost 50 years of corporate history. It also has a new “strategic mobile partnership” with Yahoo to distribute the company’s services on some phones.

Seoul, Korea-based LG Electronics was noticeably quiet last week when Apple revealed iPhone to the world. Bloggers had noted a mystery touch-screen phone produced by LG that was strikingly similar a month ago. LG announced the KE850 Prada today, but don’t expect to see it in the US.

The LG C1 Tablet PC has not hit the market yet, but its design and Samsung LCD screen have gadget bloggers drooling into their Star Wars cereal bowls.