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One of the few disappointments with the HTC One is that it still runs Android 4.1, however, a new report suggests the latest Android 4.2.2 update isn’t far away. And for existing users, it’ll be well worth the wait, because it brings a whole host of new features.

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Two live-stream video feeds recently appeared on the Google Developers website, counting down to June 7 and June 13. You may be wondering what they’re all about — maybe Google will finally announce that Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update?

Maybe not. Instead, it appears both are dedicated to the mobile version of Chrome.

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Every successful company has one massively great idea upon which all their success is based.

Google’s massively great idea is that amazing algorithms plus overwhelming compute power can solve just about any problem.

Apple’s massively great idea is that horrible content-consumption experiences can be fixed with blank-slate thinking and well-designed hardware-software-service combinations.

And Microsoft’s massively great idea, which preceded Google’s by decades, is that software does not want to be free. Software wants to be profitable and hardware wants to be a zero-margin commodity. The “secret sauce” for this approach, which enabled Microsoft to dominate for years, is that making more money on software lets you spend more on new software products, which gives you an advantage in emerging software markets.

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Android-based computers haven’t really taken off yet, but Acer is the latest computer manufacturer trying to make that happen. The company has today unveiled its new $400 all-in-one (AIO) PC powered by Android Jelly Bean.

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Android rules the worldwide smartphone market when it comes to market share, and its dominance in China could have a lot to do with that. At the end of the first quarter of 2013, Google’s platform claimed a whopping 51.4% share of all smartphones owned in China.

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