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 ...

Server maker and Canonical have nearly completed work to certify Linux version of Ubuntu runs smoothly on Sun's x86 servers. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Canonical has unveiled software that will give Android smartphones the ability to run full desktop computer sessions on computer monitors and television sets. “The processors at the heart of ...

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 ...