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Hulu Plus brings movies and television shows the small screen of Android smartphones, but only six models are compatible for now. Sony Ericsson is leveraging HDTV technology for it's new Android phones while the iPhone appears to be chipping away at Android's popularity in the U.S.

Google on Wednesday began fixing a security flaw that affects some 97% of Android smartphones.

Android Open Accessory creates platform APIs for standard devices, such as phones and lightbulbs. With this, Android joins the ever-growing list of protocols (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Insteon, X10) competing for attention in the connected home.

The search-engine giant is facing complaints in South Korea as mobile phones using its Android software gain dominance.

A new report released Thursday by Nielsen, a market research firm, said that the Google Android platform had become the most popular operating system among United States smartphone users.

It's official — there are only two mobile operating systems that matter right now. Even though their competitors are trumpeting enthusiastic comeback strategies, the big money is on Apple's iOS and Google's Android, the Mac and PC of the 21st century.

The next generation of Android is coming in a few weeks, and that update to the mobile operating system "could replace credit cards," according to Google ...

Originally announced at Google I/O back in May, Android 2.2 was Google's answer to iPhone OS 4, now known as iOS 4. Along with expected tweaks and updates, it also delivers a slew of cutting-edge new features that no other mobile OS has ever delivered users.

Today is day two of Google I/O, Google’s developers conference. Yesterday, Google used its keynote.

Android's rise is remarkable for a young OS; here's how it happened and what's next for Google's smartphone entry.