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Android set to take over the world

Android set to take over the world

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Smart phones running Google's Android operating system will soon dominate the world market according to research carried out by Digitimes. The Taiwanese tech news site reckons global smartphone shipments will reach 280 million units by the end of 2010, and more than 55 million of those will feature the increasingly-popular open source OS. Android's market share has rocketed from less than five per cent in 2009 to nearly 14 per cent this year. And, as the OS matures...



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