Google has announced Jelly Bean - the latest version of its Android system software.
On Motorola's popular Xoom units, only videos of the new Android system are shown, not usable software.
The service will initially be limited to Apple's iPhones, with a version to follow for Google's Android system.
The Chinese search engine just launched the Changhong H5018, a customized smartphone also based on the Android system.
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If those mobile-device owners aren't using Apple products, they probably use Google's Android system, or Microsoft's or BlackBerry's.
During the event, Zuckerberg repeatedly talked about how Google's open Android system was the perfect place to build Home.
The Android system also lets apps from outside stores be loaded onto the phones and tablets that use it.
Motoblur enables Motorola to simply add features on top of Android system and customize its smartphones to the market requirements.
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Google has been able to tie Google Now into the Android system, but it's more limited on the iPhone and iPad.
The Android system and Windows 8 now allow these juggernauts to create their own ecosystems, making it harder to draw new Apple groupies.
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The question is whether there's time for the once-pioneering BlackBerry to catch up to Apple's trend-setting iPhone and devices running Google's Android system.
It's Microsoft's way of addressing a challenge to PCs brought about by the popularity of the iPad and tablets running Google's Android system.
Its concern focused on whether Google would favour Motorola Mobility over handset manufacturers like HTC or Samsung - which also use Google's Android system.
But with Apple and Google's Android system grabbing the attention and market share in the mobile world, Microsoft appears to have an uphill battle.
While phones running Google's Android system represent the majority of the world's smartphones, no single phone has come anywhere near the popularity of Apple's iPhone.
Apple and Google have obviously squared off in the mobile space, with more smartphones now running Google's Android system, even though the iPhone remains the single most popular phone.
The policy spells out the fact that Google is assembling users' activity on all of its products -- from search to Gmail to phones running its Android system on smartphones.
The dispute coincides with Microsoft's efforts to force smartphone makers to pay it fees for the use of intellectual properties it claims ownership to, and which are used by Google's Android system.
On its mobile iOS operating system, Apple has created a "closed garden" environment in which everything from apps to accessories has to be approved by Apple, as opposed to Google's more wide-open Android system.
She says her firm's use of Google's open source Android system should change that, but adds that she wants to see more than just ports of games designed to run on tablets and phones.
In the meantime, Apple has just filed a further claim against the South Korean manufacturer based on the allegation that version 4.1 of the Android system, which is installed on several Samsung devices, infringes its own software patents.
Google has developed an Android-to-Android sharing system called Android Beam that allows two NFC-equipped Android phones to share files when the two devices are tapped together.
The agreement does not extend to other manufacturers' handsets that use the Android operating system.
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Android operating system, and the videogames might be available through an application, the person said.
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At the show there were a number of devices powered by Google's Android operating system.
Into all of those electronic items Google is actively embedding its Android operating system.
Google is now getting into the smart phone device-making business, already possessing the Android operating system.
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Many corporations won't support phones runningGoogle's Android operating system, for instance, partly because of security concerns.
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