Stories by Jon Gold

With the fifth anniversary of the Google Android operating system’s release quickly approaching, we look back on the platform’s rise from also-ran to market leader.

A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices, as part of a phishing scheme.

Although Google had to call off its formal Android event due to a historic hurricane slamming into the Eastern Seaboard, all of the major announcements it had been planning were nonetheless made online.

Despite a substantial decline in Riverbed's stock price after the news of its $1 billion acquisition of Opnet this week, industry experts say that the buyout leaves Riverbed in a uniquely strong position in the network management arena.

The Samsung-designed device is the first in the Nexus line to directly challenge the iPad.

Googles LG-made Nexus is a powerhouse. Here's a first look at the latest entry in the company's Nexus line.

It's been a big week for tablet news, though most of that was due to non-Android stuff like Microsoft Surface and that other thing ... what was it ... oh yeah, the iPad mini.

The discovery of a somewhat alarming bug in the Linux ext4 filesystem provoked a minor wave of panic this week, but project maintainer Theodore Ts'o says it has since become clear that the problem can likely only affect a small number of users.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced Wednesday that the Broadcom display hardware used in its flagship Raspberry Pi system board is now the first ARM-based system-on-a-chip to use open-source drivers provided entirely by the vendor.

AMD has announced that processors based on its much-anticipated Piledriver architecture are now available to the public, in a move that marks the company's competitive return to the world of high-end desktop PCs.

A team of researchers from two German universities has released a study asserting that many of the most popular free apps available through the Google Play store may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks -- seriously threatening user privacy.

It's always fun when you have a good idea of how the weekly Android roundup is going to look, and then Google throws something at you late and you get to completely restructure it.

F5 Networks this week debuted the 4200v version of its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers -- specialized hardware designed to help lessen the load imposed on network-based services -- significantly bolstering the transaction handling and capacity over its current high-end box.

Google releases new information on its enormous computing infrastructure

Best Buy is getting ready to release a 9.7-inch Android tablet under its Insignia store brand in less than a month - and a report from Reuters indicates that the device could sell for considerably less than most other products in its size class.