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James Martin/CNET During the kickoff to its annual I/O developers conference, Google boasted of the success of its Android mobile operating system. The Android platform has 1 billion active monthly users, up from the 538 million active monthly users logged last year, Google’s Sundar Pichai said at the Google I/O conference Wednesday. By topping that figure, Android is now the …

The Nexus 7 still awaits a successor. CNET Google spent more than two hours and forty minutes unveiling a bevy of products, software, and features at its annual developer conference. The Nexus 8, unfortunately, wasn’t in the mix. The tablet was among the more eagerly anticipated announcements at Google I/O, seen as a potential upgrade to Google’s Nexus 7 tablet, …