Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Google, Apple hoping 7 will be their lucky number in 2013

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Whereas the race between smartphone manufacturers like Apple, HTC, 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Lenovo, and HP are also in talks with Google to create new Chromebooks, and along with Acer and Asus, the five are all working on Androidbooks as well.

Just how much pressure all of these Chrome- and Androidbooks will put on Microsoft when it comes to licensing its software out remains to be seen, but Google and its manufacturing partners are certainly taking an aggressive tact on affordable portable computing.

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