A new partnership between virtual Android specialist BlueStacks and microchip maker AMD will see much of the Google Play store's stock of apps made available to Windows users running AMD hardware, the company announced Thursday.
Google's Play Store, the official source for Android software, has served up 25 billion downloads, the company announced Wednesday, further closing the gap on Apple's App Store.
Dell announced the latest product in its line of KACE management appliances Tuesday, highlighting the new KACE K1000's support for multiple new platforms, new APIs, and streamlining of common tasks.
While the recent addition of VMware to the OpenStack Foundation as a gold member troubled some in the community - including a new member of the board of directors - Canonical cloud vice president Kyle MacDonald says that his company was an enthusiastic backer of the move.
There are a ton of Android apps out there -- 600,000 in the Google Play store alone, the company said at this summer's Google I/O conference -- but there are only a few that rise to the status of being a critical, everyday app for a lot of people. Without further ado, here are some of those that we defy you not to get hooked on.
News that Ubuntu 12.10, currently in beta, will integrate Amazon search results into some queries by default app quickly created a tidal wave of recrimination in the open-source community, with commenters on Slashdot, Reddit and elsewhere decrying the new system as intrusive and potentially harmful to user privacy.
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony has honored a wide array of strange research and advancement over the years, from exploding pants to woodpecker headaches to aggressive parking enforcement, and Thursday night’s ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., was no exception.
Thursday night, Harvard University will host a ceremony to honor some of those who have made key contributions to science in 2012. Kind of.
Microsoft has announced a deal with troubled BlackBerry smartphone manufacturer, Research In Motion (RIM), that will see RIM gain access to the larger company's proprietary Extended File Allocation Table format.
I'll admit it upfront - comparing the Apple iPhone 5 to the current RIM BlackBerry lineup seems a bit unfair, like putting an F-22 up against a World War I-vintage Sopwith Camel.
Yahoo will provide all of its employees with a brand-new smartphone of their choice, according to a recent corporate memo by recently hired CEO Marissa Mayer.
Google Chrome will soon provide users with the option to use the do-not-track setting when browsing the Web, effectively allowing them to opt out of many website ad targeting systems.
Google has released a set of online tools for educators under an open-source license, allowing for experimentation and collaborative development of the Course Builder system.
We look back at some of the online pranksters’ highest-profile victims
Our look back on the Google smartphone and tablet platform’s progress from experiment to market leader.