Google gives Play store a facelift, as Android tweaks continue
Google today rolled out a redesign of its Play store for Android, changing the interface for smartphone and tablet users looking for apps and media content.
Stories by Jon Gold
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Open-Xchange takes aim at no less than Microsoft Office, Google Docs
As his interviewer stumbles for an appropriately careful term to describe the state of open-source office software development, Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, offers to help.
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Google-led group warns of 'patent privateers'
Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for Google, Red Hat, BlackBerry and EarthLink.
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Will Android users feel welcome in Facebook's Home?
Unless you're a huge Facebook fanatic, will this really be something you use every day? Time will tell.
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Privacy flap prompts CyanogenMod developers to back down on mandatory info collection
The lead developer of CyanogenMod, one of the most popular third-party versions of Android, has reversed a change that would have removed the ability for users to opt out of data collection, after a determined protest from some CyanogenMod users.
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Apache Foundation promotes development framework Bloodhound to the top
The Apache Foundation announced Tuesday that the software development and project management framework Bloodhound is now an official top-level project, having graduated from the organization's product incubator.
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Open-source video recorder adds full HD support
If you're an enthusiastic home PC builder and a fan of Star Trek - and, to be fair, if you're the first, you're probably the second as well - it's an exciting day, as developer Klaus Schmidinger has released a new version of his open-source video disk recorder software.
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In Pictures: 8 things you might not know about Android
Some lesser-known facts about Google's mobile OS
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Analyst: iPhone price pressure means smartphone profits have peaked
The overall profitability of the smartphone market hit its apex in 2012, according to a prominent equity analyst.
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Is Android in the business world to stay?
It's official, and it's been official for a while -- Android is far and away the most popular smartphone OS in America. Ever since January 2011, when the platform surpassed RIM to take the top spot for the first time in comScore's monthly market share rankings, Google's operating system has continued to grow its user base, which accounts for 52% of the market as of this January.
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Do's and don'ts for using Android in business
While it's important to remember that the use of Google Android software in the enterprise is still a comparatively young phenomenon, there are a few general guidelines that businesses looking to use the platform would do well to remember.
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Report: Samsung grabs about one-third of market with 70M-plus Q1 smartphone sales
Samsung's total worldwide smartphone sales have likely totaled more than 70 million units in the first quarter of 2013, or roughly a third of the overall market, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research.
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Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication
Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware.
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Official Twitter app for Ubuntu Touch canceled
A Canonical software engineer told a public mailing list on Friday that there would be no official Twitter app released with Ubuntu Touch.
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HTC One's US smartphone launch delayed until 'end of April'
HTC announced Friday that its well-received HTC One smartphone won't go on sale in the U.S. until sometime "before the end of April," according to an emailed statement.
