Asus hopes its close partnership with Google will lead it to be the first company to offer devices running Android Jelly Bean - version 5.0.

Asus prides itself on its Android upgrade efficiency, as it was the first to provide tablets running Honeycomb and the first to push the Ice Cream Sandwich update to its tablets.

The Google tablet rumor will not die. Supposedly, ASUS is working with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on a Nexus tablet, possibly branded Google Play. The 7-inch Android ICS slate will retail for just $199, we're told. InIT Blogwatch, bloggers get ready for a fight with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN).

BARCELONA—HTC is simplifying. The smartphone company last month announced a plan to radically cut down the number of models it releases, and today at Mobile World Congress it's rolling out its three major Android phones for 2012: the HTC One S, X and V. I spent some quality time with them and came away impressed, but powerful partners could still kill HTC's branding revolution.

If ever there was a week to make plain the writing on the proverbial wall of the personal computing world, this week has been it.

That writing, it's becoming increasingly clear, spells out the word "convergence."

First, on Tuesday, there was the news that Canonical is bringing its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution to Android phones, delivering a full desktop experience when the smartphone is docked with a monitor and keyboard.

Online storage and collaboration company Box has upgraded its apps for Android phones and tablets. They have new features such as multiple-file uploads, threaded comments on any file and the ability to invite other people into a folder. And to celebrate, it’s giving Android users 50GB of free space in the cloud–for free, forever.