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Android Shipped on 43% of U.S. Smartphones: Nielsen

Google's Android operating system continued to be the hit of the U.S. smartphone world, accounting for 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July 2010...

Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ Is the Most Important Version Yet: 10 Reasons Why

With the first month of 2011 down, consumers and even some enterprise customers are undoubtedly becoming more and more excited to find out how...

Android Overtakes Symbian as Top Smartphone OS: 10 Reasons Why

After slowly marching its way toward the top of the smartphone OS market, Google's Android platform is now the most-popular smartphone operating system in...

Android Ships 33M Smartphones to Lead World: Canalys

Google's Android operating system became the world's leading smartphone platform, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth...

Apple iPad Faces Risks from Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously (or infamously, depending on your point of view) lashed out against Google Android tablets during his company's October earnings...

Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb Demo Slated at the Googleplex

Google Feb. 2 is taking the unusual step of offering a media preview of its new Android 3.0 operating system, the next-generation build of...

Google Tests Gmail Display Ads, Boost for Android, iPhone

Google stepped up its desktop and mobile advertising efforts this week, testing display ads in Gmail and launching its Boost small business ads for...

Google Android 3.0 Preview SDK Ships for Tablets

Google Jan. 26 released a preview version of the software-development kit for Android 3.0, a new version of the company's operating system that is...

Researcher Finds Google Android Data Stealing Vulnerability

A security researcher has uncovered a way to exploit a data-leak issue affecting Google Android users.Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North Carolina State...

Google Dissatisfied with Android Paid App Purchases

It's rare to catch any actual Android developers other than the operating system creator Andy Rubin speaking in public. It's even more rare that...