The top five business benefits of Android

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They write, "With the 2.0 release newly available, perhaps you're wondering if the Android platform is right for your business or your project. Here are the top five benefits of Android from a business perspective." Those benefits range from lower costs to the best mobile platform inter-app integration. If you would build an iPhone app, would you port it to Android? Read full story Related News: From Google Subnet Android versioning, out of control? Mark Murphy: In late April 2009, Google released Android 1.5. In mid-September 2009, Google released Android 1.6. In late October 2009, Google released Android 2.0.That is three version releases in a span of six months. Google releases beta of Chrome for Windows 4.0 The Google Subnet blog: Google has released the 4.0 beta of its Chrome browser. Its claim to fame is a way to synch your bookmarks across multiple computers. The synch technology is based on the same XMPP-based servers that power Google Talk. . 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