The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 17 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.  17.0.963.46 contains a number of new features including: New Extensions APIs Updated Omnibox Prerendering Download Scanning Protection Many other small changes Security fixes and rewards: Please see the Chromium security page for [...]

Google Earth is an application that provides a virtual globe, map and geographical information which you can use to travel the wold virtually, see images, 3D buildings, maps and more. Google Earth 6.2 was released a few days ago and the most important change is a new way of rendering imagery which fixes an old [...]

Google has released version 15 of the Chrome browser, and it arrives in conjunction with a revamped Chrome Web Store. According to a Google blog post: “From sharing photos, to collaborating on documents, to enjoying online games, web apps make the web fun, useful and entertaining. Since the beginning, Chrome has been designed to allow [...]

There have been many reports that Google wants to “supercharge” its Android efforts through its purchase of Motorola Mobility, which puts Google squarely in the handset and hardware mobile business. That has caused some concern among some of the hardware manufacturers who rely on getting the latest and greatest version of Android to deliver on [...]

Google’s recent plan to buy Motorola Mobility has the potential for reshaping the entire Android landscape. If it wins regulatory approval for the purchase, Google may only have a short time span to connect its marketing strategy. When and if this happens, it could further fracture the open source Android operating system. Depending on how [...]

The initial response to Google’s surprise announcement on Monday that it had inked a deal to acquire Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion was that it was a move largely to protect itself from the increasing patent attacks against Android. That could be why all five major manufacturers of Android devices appear to be thrilled with [...]

Google has announced it is acquiring Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone company and “dedicated Android partner”, for $12.5 billion. Google CEO Larry Page says the acquisition will allow it to “create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem.” As well as the mobile phone design and manufacturing capability, Google will also be acquiring [...]

Google’s Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President, David Drummond, took to the company’s official blog yesterday to accuse Microsoft, Apple and Oracle of “a hostile, organized campaign against Android” which was being “waged through bogus patents”. Although there are numerous patent cases surrounding Google’s mostly open source mobile operating system Android, only one of [...]

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last evening, August 2nd, the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 13 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms. The new Google Chrome 13 web browser includes various exciting new features, such as the highly anticipated Instant Pages prerendering [...]

To say Android’s popular among consumers is like saying Godzilla’s a lizard. It’s a question of degree. More than 500,000 new Android devices were being activated daily, and the number was growing at 4.4 percent week over week, Google’s Andy Rubin tweeted in late June. comScore’s figures show that for the three-month period ending in [...]

Linux User & Developer is proud to announce the birth of a new sister publication that’s 100% dedicated to Android! Android Magazine is the world’s first monthly Android magazine and includes masses of Phone, Tablet and app reviews as well as essential tutorials for everyone from humble beginner to advanced hacker… Every issue readers can [...]

Google+ may still be in its invitation-only early days, but with all the wild excitement and skyrocketing numbers of users, it’s awfully hard to tell. Quibbles about real-name policies notwithstanding, eager users from virtually every walk of life seem to be flocking to the new social network — even those of us who are perhaps [...]

No one likes the idea that $500 tablet or smartphone they just purchased will be obsolete in just under a year’s time. Still, I’m starting to detect a trend in the Google Android device world. Unlike their Apple counterparts, it looks like Android devices are seemingly disposable and become outdated pretty darn quickly. Does that [...]

Android Honeycomb tablets are now on store shelves and vendor websites. Six months from Honeycomb’s release, tablet makers have finally optimized their hardware to fit the new made-for-tablets OS version to their larger-than-smartphone screens. But where are the apps? Buyers of shiny new 8- and 10-inch touchscreen Android tablets suffer from a glaring lack of [...]

Android SDK tech lead Xavier Ducrohet has announced that the Android Platform 3.2 mobile operating system has been released. The developers have made the corresponding SDK (Software Development Kit), including an emulator, available to download. Like its series 3 predecessors, the operating system that is mainly developed by Google has been optimised for tablet PCs. [...]

Several AV vendors report that, after targeting Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices, a variant of the ZeuS online banking trojan now also infects Android smartphones and will upload any TANs that arrive via SMS text message to a server. If they have control of victims’ PCs as well as their smartphones, criminals are then [...]