Google Android boss Andy Rubin just let the world know that more than half a million Android devices are activated every day. That number includes smartphones and tablets and comes just about 2 months after Google announced that more than 100 million devices have been activated over the last few years. The activation number is a little tricky, because it doesn’t tell you how many… Read more »

Google Android boss Andy Rubin has finally made it clear: Google Android 3.x Honeycomb source code will not be released to the public. The company has been making the source code available to some tablet manufacturers, but while source code for all earlier versions of Android were eventually added to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Google has no plans to the same with Honeycomb…. Read more »

If it seems like every few months Google launches a new version of Android, thus rendering your 6-month old phone at least partially obsolete, that’s because that’s exactly what’s been happening since Android first hit the scene in late 2008. In less than 2 years, we’ve gone from Android 1.5 to 1.6 to 2.1, and Android 2.2 is just around the corner. Of course, we’ve… Read more »

Google Vice President Andy Rubin sat down with Brad Stone from the New York Times recently for an in-depth talk about Google Android. There’s not a lot of news in the resulting article, but it does make for an interesting read if you want to know how Rubin responds to Apple boss Steve Jobs’ comments that if you want porn on your phone, you should… Read more »