“Canadian telecoms company Rogers and Bell [sic] already has Apple’s hotly anticipated iTV device in its labs, a report in Canada’s Globe and Mail has claimed,” Rob Waugh reports for The Mail Online.

“Two unnamed sources speaking to the paper report that the flatscreen device will be voice controlled, using software similar to the Siri voice control on iPhone 4S, and will offer iPad-style apps,” Waugh reports. “It will also offer gesture control, with users able to manipulate apps from the sofa using hand gestures to type on an on-screen virtual keyboard.”

Waugh reports, “Apple is widely rumoured to be introducing such a device this year. The details tally broadly with details leaked from a survey from U.S retailer Best Buy – asking customers what they might think of an ‘all-new Apple HDTV.’”

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MacDailyNews Note: This report is a compendium of many of the current rumors and reports floating around about “iTV.” Note also, that Canadian carriers Rogers and Bell are separate companies, not one entity as the article states.