Google wants an open source silicon community for chip design
As evidenced by Android and Chromium, Google has long been committed to open source software. The company now wants to…
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Android Experiments is a gallery of apps that make the best of Android
Yesterday we wrote about three new Android apps to come out of Google’s Creative Lab, which at the time we had…
HP webOS Enyo team is going Google
The Verge: The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS’s HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving…
Chromium contributors developing a ‘Sidebar API,’ could be used to resurrect Side Tabs feature
Longtime users of Google Chrome may remember a period when it was possible to display tabs vertically, in a bar on the…
Google releases Games In Motion, a game to inspire developers with the potential of Android Wear
Google has today released an open source exercise “game sample” to GitHub which utilizes a handful of Android technologies to demonstrate to…
Controversial Adblock Plus just launched its own mobile browser for Android
“Adblockers,” browser tools which work to hide ads from the web browsing experience, are a controversial topic of discussion among…
Chrome for Android goes almost ‘entirely open source’
Launched in September 2008, Google’s Chrome browser is now dominant in its share of the desktop web browser market, with…
Google Chrome’s reading mode is making another appearance in mobile browser
While other competing browsers have long had special modes that strip all extraneous content from the pages of articles so…
Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra talks Apple copycat ‘melodrama,’ Android, U.S. expansion plans [Video]
As smartphones grow in popularity in emerging markets, Hugo Barra has very publicly spoken for Xiaomi, the Chinese-based technology company that…
Google is now a Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation
Open source is a very important principle at Google, considering how many of its projects are developed that way. Google is…
Andy Rubin gets the Danger Band back together for Android hardware
Over at Fortune, I profiled the the two new guys presenting at Google I/O on Android yesterday. It turns out…
Google increases commitment to defending open-source software projects from patent trolls
Google’s Open Source Blog advises that Google has moved from an associate to a full board member of the Open Invention Network,…