Rory Cellan-Jones has blogged about Google’s Android catching up with Apple in the year 2011, and the projection that it’s going to surpass the iOS app store’s 18 billion downloads in the next few years. Android is already controlling around half of the smartphone market. There are mixed feelings from developers about the economics of [...]

Many people who work in large organizations where they are subject to the rule of two-fisted IT departments are already very familiar with being restricted from using Android phones and devices. Lots of IT administrators remain convinced that Android–and applications for the platform–aren’t secure. And there is a lot of data to support that view, [...]

Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” is now available for x86 platforms. Android 4.0.1 was announced for x86 by the Android x86 community in source and ISO form. It was announced in this mailing list message. Android 4.0.1 for x86 can handle WiFi, multi-touch, and OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for Radeon hardware. The OpenGL ES graphics [...]

Android malware has increased 472 percent since July, a new report from Juniper Networks warned earlier this week, with the months of October and November shaping up to see the fastest jump in Android malware ever discovered, the company stated. The number of Android malware samples identified in September increased by 28 percent over the [...]

Speaking at this week’s AsiaD conference in Hong Kong, Andy Rubin, Google Senior VP of Mobile and the man in charge of Android development, confirmed that the source code for the next major update to Android, version 4.0, will be available as open source “a couple of weeks” after the recently announced Galaxy Nexus smartphone [...]

The latest version of Android, 4.0, will offer a brand new design, better gesture control and a number of minor improvements, many of which were inspired by iOS, WebOS and especially by Windows Phone 7. A few Windows Phone 7 design ideas, a few WebOS gestures and some iOS for the user interface: for the [...]

According to market analyst Nielsen’s August market data, more than half (56 percent) of the smartphones acquired over the most recent three months ran Android. Perhaps the market analyst’s most interesting observation, though, is that innovators prefer Android to iOS by a margin of 40 to 32 percent. In terms of competition among the top [...]

Not only is the smartphone market itself surging, but one market research firm shows Android at nearly 50 percent of the global smartphone market. The data from Canalys also shows that Android is handily leading Apple’s iOS in market share, and that the worldwide smartphone market grew 73 percent year-on-year, with more than 107.7 million [...]