Notebooks could be the next stop for Google’s Android system

Expect it on PCs by next year Google Inc.’s Android operating system, after making inroads into the mobile-phone market, may be running on portable computers within the next year, challenging the dominance of Microsoft Corp. Google could use its brand name and community of developers to get the software onto low-cost notebooks, said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Inc. One chip maker, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., is already working on designs for an Android computer. “Android could be a piece of a larger competitive battle between Google…

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