The rumors heading into this year's Google I/O conference forewarned a lack of new hardware, and they turned out to be right. There was no new Nexus phone or tablet or even a new version of Android an...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Your search is about to get even friendlier. At Google I/O, Amit Singhal announced several key enhancements to the company's search tool including conversational search for the desk...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's easy enough to provide kindergarteners with their own tablets, but it's much harder to make sure they're using the right education apps. New app store Google Play for Educati...

SAN FRANCISCO -- With quad-core phones commonplace and dedicated gaming systems like Nvidia Shield on the way, Android is already a serious gaming platform. Today Google kicked it up a notch, announci...

The One Touch Idol from Alcatel is a lightweight and capable contract-free Android phone, but its short battery life and lack of LTE disappoint.

The Zealz GK802 Android Mini PC offers quad-core processing punch and lets you run Android or Ubuntu, but it needs more polish.

If you want to run an Android emulator in Windows, you have a few choices. You can configure the incredibly slow and difficult-to-use Android SDK. Or you could try the BlueStacks emulator, which is in...

Android may be the most popular mobile platform on the planet, but it's not without flaws. Android phones and tablets frequently suffer from mediocre battery life, performance that slows down over tim...

The latest flagship phones from Samsung, HTC and LG are crammed with all sorts of whiz-bang features. And there's a good chance you'll ignore most of them..