Hampering its home entertainment ambitions, Google is pushing back the official launch of the Nexus Q. Unveiled this summer, the spherical black media device plays music and video from Android
devices. “The Q is Google’s maiden attempt at making its own hardware (and, unusually, is manufactured in the United States),” notes The New York Times’ Bits blog. “But
curiously, it is the software, which is Google’s typical area of expertise, that needs the work.”