ANDROID

After being pushed into a corner by the Rockstar consortium which acquired a portfolio of 6,000 patents from Nortel Networks, Google has upped the ante in the smartphone arena by acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12 billion.

Android operating system has been targeted time and again by experts, claiming it to be not secure enough. The latest announcement comes from the security expert, Riley Hassel.

Google said the purchase of Motorola Mobility will bolster the popularity of its Android mobile operating system.

Huawei Technologies Co. is all set to sell in the UK its own mobile handsets, which will run on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system.

The smartphone industry's most recent rumor comes via leaked snapshots of the rumored giant from the HTC camp, the HTC Holiday.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) said it agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) for $40 per share in cash or a total of about $12.5 billion. This might create more heat for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), as Google is trying to improve its Android ecosystem with this acquisition.

The first official screenshots of Ice Cream Sandwich has been revealed after a long period of silence.

Dell's confusion over tablet format has ended, as it retired its part-tablet and part-smartphone, the 5-inch Dell Streak, in favor of bigger tablets.

Google's Android operating system has serious security flaws, says a mobile security expert.

Leaked images of HTC's new Holiday phone.

With the increasing craze for Near Field Communication (NFC)- the latest contactless payment type, Gartner research firm expects the mobile payment users to surpass 141.1 million in 2011, up from 102.1 million in 2010.

Samsung?s monster, the strongest rival to iPhone 5, which had hit sales of 3 million within 55 day in UK is on its way to appear in U.S at the end of the month.

Analysis: Here are a few features that we'd like to see on the iPhone 5.

Apple?s anticipated iPhone 5 is expected to arrive in September but new rumors suggest that the Cupertino-based company may delay the launch even further up to October.

A mobile security expert says he has found new ways for hackers to attack phones running Google Inc's Android operating system.

A mobile security expert says he has discovered serious security flaws in Google Inc's Android operating system.

A few blogs have found leaked shots of Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

Finally, the wait is over! The 7" Acer Iconia Tab A100, built on Android 3.2, is now available on the shelves.

SMS what? Facebook stole the show this week with the launch of its free Facebook Messenger app, available for iPhone and Android users.

Google Inc.?s Android powered tablets have collectively taken 20 percent of the market share away from iPad in the last 12 months.

The latest buzz around the next rendition of Android comes via leaked screenshots of the upcoming Android OS, the Ice Cream Sandwich.