The rumors are now confirmed, as Google announced during the Friday keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show it is launching a video and television Internet service, but also a basic survival software kit meant to help newbies get by online. This basic software pack will be called Google Pack.

This suite will include in-house designed applications as well as third-party ones, which the users will be able to download and install on their systems. The pack includes the Firefox browser, Symantec's Norton AntiVirus, Adobe Reader and a RealPlayer media player.

The download service, which was called Google VideoStore, will enable users to buy and download video content from providers such as CBS Broadcasting and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from its Web site. The service will present itself as a marketplace and let the content providers decide on what capacity and for how much they want to sell their content. This means the provider decides what are the options the user will have in order to get the desired content: rent it, download it or any other procedure.

Google also announced a video player which was so cleverly called "Google Video Player" and according to the information provided at CES, Google will soon offer content provided by Independent Television News, The Charlie Rose Show, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Classic Media, HDNet, and PorchLight Entertainment.