Amazon has recently introduced the Fire TV Stick 4K Select media streamer with a MediaTek MT8698 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, HDMI 2.1 video output, and WiFi 5 and ...

After years of rumors and reports, Amazon has officially announced Vega OS, its replacement for Android on Fire TV hardware, and it’s going to make some big changes. Fire TV has always been based on ...

Amazon launched Vega OS, replacing Android on Fire TV devices for better performance and efficiency. The new OS, debuting on the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, is remarkably fast but comes with a major ...

After the posting—and apparent editing—of a job opening spotted this week, it’s expected that Amazon will bring its homegrown operating system to Fire TV devices this year. A new job listing, as seen ...

Up until now, Google’s Android operating system has been limited to smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and smartwatches/wearables (as Wear OS). There’s also Android Auto, which is used in car ...

The case could rewrite the rules on how businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington Google has asked the Supreme Court to block a lower ...

Google is officially merging Android and ChromeOS to create a new operating system for laptops and PCs. At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui, the spotlight wasn’t just on Qualcomm’s new ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

Google’s upcoming developer verification system for Android may prevent users from sideloading apps without an internet connection. This change, discovered in a recent beta, raises concerns that a ...

China is ending its antitrust probe into Google, which had centered around Android’s ubiquity in the mobile world and what impact, if any, it was having on Chinese phone makers like Oppo and Xiaomi ...

Next year, Google will prohibit sideloading on Android—one of the few prominent things differentiating the Android operating system from Apple's iOS. Per the forthcoming policy, Google will ask all ...

US Federal Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday that Google did not have to sell off its signature Chrome internet browser or its Android operating system. This follows a previous ruling that the company ...