Android has for long been restricted to smartphones and tablets, and is rightly considered as the mobile operating system. However, the advent of unofficial builds of Android designed exclusively for ...

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 ...

Intel has been hard at work porting Android from ARM over to x86, and they're getting really close! Take a look at the video and I'll show you how to setup a bootable thumbdrive if you've got a ...

There is no shortage of ways you can run Android apps on a PC, be it a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. But, as we've learned recently, not all of them are that trustworthy after all. Ensure that ...

Remix OS is a desktop-optimized port of Android-x86 that can be installed on a flash drive and booted on almost any computer. Taylor Martin CNET Contributor Taylor Martin has covered technology online ...

Google's open source Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" operating system for smartphones and tablets has been ported to work with x86 processors, says Android-x86.org, a group of volunteer developers ...

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Google's Android dev team have just released Android 4.0.1/Ice Cream Sandwich for x86 chipsets, which has been a promise of theirs to open Android up to both Intel and AMD-based systems. Of course, ...

For the past few years, as Intel has struggled to gain market share for its Android-x86 project, it's been hampered by software compatibility issues and associated performance degradation. Now, some ...