Wall Street Journal :: U.S. broadcasters asked a federal appeals court to reject new Federal Communications Commission rules that would require online disclosure of political-ad rates. The National Association of Broadcasters filed suit late Monday, just days after the agency published the rules in the Federal Register.

(CNN) – The inventor of the TV remote, Eugene Polley, died on Sunday at 96.

After his death was announced on Tuesday, the Internet paused — get it? — to remember the man and the wireless television remote control, which ushered in the era of channel surfing and couch potatoes.

Some tributes were humorous. Others were fawning.

“Gush all you want about Facebook, Twitter and other recent tech innovations. I’d stack Polley and his TV remote against all of them,” wrote David Lazarus at LATimes.com. “After all, which would you be more willing to give up — Facebook or your remote? … Thought so.”

Polley, who died of “natural causes,” according to a news release, invented Zenith’s “Flash-Matic” wireless remote control, which was introduced in 1955 and was heralded as the first of its kind. “It used a flashlight-like device to activate photocells on the television set to change channels,” the Zenith news release says.

Motorola may not make television sets but they believe they know what the future interface of connected devices should look like. During a cable television convention in Boston, the company demonstrated a new concept for connected sets called DreamGallery.

At its core, DreamGallery is described as a cross-platform media hub that controls content between a wide range of devices including computers and web browsers, tablets and smartphones. Furthermore it is said to aggregate content from the Internet, video-on-demand services like Netflix and Hulu and cable television services into one location.

Seoul: LG Electronics, the world’s number two TV maker, plans to launch internet-enabled TV based on Google’s platform in the US this week, as the South Korean firm seeks to gain a larger share of the emerging internet TV market.

The move reflects an aggressive push by the duo to defend against a potential threat from Apple, which reshaped the handset market with its iPhone smartphone and is widely expected to unveil a full-fledged TV product later this year or early next year.

“Production of Google TVs will start from May 17 from our factory in Mexico and US consumers will be able to buy the product from the week of May 21,” Ro Seogho, executive vice-president of LG’s TV business unit, said.