KitKat, the newest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, continues to make slow and_steady progress after reaching 8.5 percent adoption among Android smartphones and tablets that use the Google Play app store each month, according to the latest data from the search giant. Adoption of the seven-month-old software_among “active” Android devices — as Google refers to them — is up from 5.3 percent at the beginning of April, but KitKat_still sits in the shadow of Jelly Bean, its predecessor, which accounts for 60.8 percent across its three separate versions. The rate of Jelly Bean installations did drop slightly over...

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