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Mobile technology company Myriad has updated its Dalvik virtual machine for Android with Dalvik Turbo, which it says offers three times the performance for the same memory requirements. Substantial ...

Throughout the rapid and tumultuous history of Android, which is now five years old, almost every aspect of the OS has been changed, updated, or overhauled in some way. Everything, that is, except for ...

With the new Android OS 2.2 release gaining plenty of kudos from Nexus One owners, Google has been unpicking some of the low level smarts that make it so much faster. One key component is the Dalvik ...

Fuchsia is an open-source operating system developed by Google that’s designed to be simple and secure. The company previously released versions of Fuchsia that can run on Pixel-branded Chromebooks ...

Google could be heading for a showdown with Sun over the way Android, Google’s new mobile phone software platform, handles Java. Instead of using the standards-based Java Micro Edition (JME) as an ...

Rather than using Sun's Java Micro Edition and paying licensing fees for it, Google built its own alternative called Dalvik for use in its Android mobile platform Google could be heading for a ...

Google is rolling out a beta version of PC Connect, a free first-party virtual desktop app for Android XR. With the app, users can stream content from their Windows PC. Desktop apps work, of course, ...

Capable of running entire operating systems in isolated environments, virtual machines have a lot of utility for tinkerers. If you’re a fan of distro-hopping, you can spin up VMs to try out some fun ...