Android 2.2 Froyo source code released

Amazon, Microsoft and Nokia all considered announcing takeover bids for struggling smartphone maker, Research in Motion. Online retail giant Amazon hired an investment bank to conduct a review of a possible takeover bid for RIM,...

Google has revealed that the company is activating 700,000 Android devices every single day. The head of Google's Android division, Andy Rubin, announced this milestone in a post on Google +, the company's social network...

If we are to believe the words from head of Google Android division, the company is slowly and gradually strengthening its foothold over the uni-polar global tablet market dominated by Apple Inc.'s massively popular...

If we are to believe the words from head of Google Android division, the company is slowly and gradually strengthening its foothold over the uni-polar global tablet market dominated by Apple Inc.'s massively popular...

Search engine giant Google has been fighting hard to keep Oracle from using an internal email as evidence in its on-going legal battle over the use of Java in Android.The email, which was already leaked to the public, suggests...

Google has announced that it will release the source code for the next Android platform, also known as “Ice Cream Sandwich” by the end of 2011. Google will open up Honeycomb around the same time.Honeycomb made its...

Google's vice president of engineering and head of the Android project, Andy Rubin, has trashed the recent press speculations that Google is deviating from its open Android philosophy. In a blog post on the Android Developers...

Google is keen on taking a tougher stand on the hardware and software requirements for manufacturing handsets and developing custom software based on its Android OS, a report has suggested. According to a report on Business Week,...

Google is not planning to release Android 3.0 Honeycomb to third party developers for a while, claiming the OS needs more work before being ready to run on devices other than tablets. The company's move has raised questions about...

Google Android platform head Andy Rubin has declared that the company is making money from the popular mobile OS.Speaking to during Wall Street Journal's D:Mobilized event, Android founder Rubin said that Google is now making...

Top Google executive David Lawee has claimed that acquiring the Android platform was Google's best deal ever. Speaking during the 16th annual Stanford Accel Symposium, Lawee said that at first he was sceptical of Google...

Google has quietly stopped selling its Google Nexus One handset on its own website and stressed that it would be flogging them instead through retail outlets and high street stores. The search giant reluctantly admitted that...

Google has confirmed that its soon-to-be-released Android 2.2 mobile phone operating system will come with full support for Adobe's Flash Player software, which has been labelled "old and buggy" by Apple, maker of the rival...

The trifecta that was Apple's iPhone introduction in January 2007 was on account of the successful introduction of a software platform and a truly revolutionary device, coupled with a massive surge in the functionality of iTunes...

As expected, Google has unveiled its first smartphone, the Nexus One which it calls a super smartphone, during a press event held in Mountain View, at Google's Headquarters. The phone is already available for sale on Google's...