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You can get a phone with Android. You can get a tablet with Android. But why stop there? Today at the Taipei Computer Applications show, Acer showed off its new Aspire One AOD255 netbook, which duals boots Android and Windows XP. The notebook comes with pretty standard hardware you’d expect of a 10-inch netbook these days: 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data.Learn Morehard drive, and a 1.66-GHz Atom N450 CPU.

The netbook will carry a list price of NT $11,900 or approximately $375 U.S. For that price, you get only a 3-cell battery, but a 6-cell option will be available for another $95, a salesman told PC World.  

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AOL has struggled to reinvent itself in the image of Google, but the company’s latest announcement about its new mobile portal and Android applications shows that the company is at least heading in the right direction.

A new smartphone portal, located at http://m.aol.com, has been designed to work on any mobile browser. The portal will even provide a touch-driven interface for smartphones which support HTML5, which includes iPhone and Android devices. Contents on the portal include location-based services for local weather, movie and traffic. S

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Where to start? Google aired new initiatives left and right at its Google I/O developer conference, such as Google TV and the Android 2.2 OS, but also made plenty of other headlines good and bad.

Let’s be charitable and start with the good, since it outweighed the bad.

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Android on a roll

Google continued to ride the Android wave by previewing Android 2.2 OS,  which boasts enterprise-oriented features including integration with Microsoft Exchange. The software, which had gone by the code name Froyo, will also be faster and support Flash, Google said.

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Google’s Android has certainly gained a lot of ground in a short period of time, which is amazing, and we’ve seen Android popped into almost every device imaginable, including washing machines. Now the question that the folks at Asus are tackling is whether it should be using Android or Chrome OS for devices? Of course, it would depend on what you want from your device; whether you want it to be something like a media device, ebook or something you can do some simple work on like a netbook. Do you think that Google will be its own worst enemy when it comes to competition for Android and also Chrome OS? It

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