Motorola blames hardware for slow ICS upgrades

In New York the other day, a stroller rolled onto the train tracks, passing directly in front of a man that could easily have grabbed the wayward carriage. It used to ben’t until the sound of the stroller hitting the tracks, and a swarm of alert adults ran past him that he discovered the gravity […]

Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on Android

Google today released a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android, a momentous step that marries two of Google’s most important programming projects. The new browser, unlike the stock Android browser, is available in the Android Market so that people don’t have to wait for handset makers to offer it through an operating system […]

Intel smartphone chip No. 1 in some benchmarks, says report

Intel’s new chip for smartphones handily beats some of the fastest phones on the market, according to chip review site Anandtech. Intel’s Atom Z2460 “Medfield” delivers “tablet-like scores” on the BrowserMark benchmark, wrote Anand Shimpi. “The Galaxy Nexus running ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) comes close, but once again Intel expects that on the same OS […]