Most Android smartphones, tablets, and other devices have ARM-based processors. But an open source port of the operating system called Android-x86 has been making it easy to install Google’s software ...

Google Android is an operating system designed to run on smartphones, not netbooks. But much of the source code is available, which means that folks have been able to port the operating system to run ...

A recent announcement by the Android x86 Project revealed that an x86-compatible version of Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich is ready for download. The announcement also carried the snippet about how ...

Android was once a big part of Intel’s plans in mobile devices, but the company is now paying much less attention to the OS. Intel is moving away from developing Android for x86 processors used in ...