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Android use in business gained ground during the latest quarter as some workers sat on the sidelines, waiting for Apple to announce a new iPhone. As a result, Android phones in business saw a slight uptick with iPhone use falling a near equal amount. The old adage seems to apply: Snooze, you lose.

At an event in Hong Kong last night night, Google and Samsung finally put months of speculation to rest by unveiling the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone alongside the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. And as you’d expect from a Samsung smartphone, this baby does not disappoint.

The question many people were asking before Apple unveiled its fifth-generation iPhone earlier this month was “Can it compete with the Samsung Galaxy S II?” However, the Galaxy S II might not be the new iPhone 4S’ biggest worry, because it looks like a third is on the way.

Google recently unveiled its first retail store in London called the “Chromezone.” This “store within a store” resides in PC World on Tottenham Court Road.

This 30 square foot ‘pop-up’ store is meant to promote Google’s relatively new Chromebook, a cheap, web-based netbook that runs the Google Chrome OS.

We’ve got an internal document from this Chromezone store in London that details how many Chromebooks Google has been selling in-store.

Following this morning’s news that Google and Samsung have postponed the launch of the new Nexus Prime and Android Ice Cream Sandwich next week, Android fans are itching to find out when the announcements will take place. According to The Next Web, it’ll happen later this month.

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