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Google announced this morning that its Android Wear computing platform is now compatible with Apple's iPhone, a genius and desperate cross-platform play.

This week, Amazon has launched a new shopping app for Android called Underground, offering what it says is over $10,000 in free apps and games.

After delivering a limited, invite-only version of Cortana for Android last month, Microsoft is now offering the mobile app in public beta form in the US.

This year, Google needs to get Nexus right, avoiding the double-whammy of disappointment it offered last year. Early indications are that it will do so.

Google’s Android One initiative was a disaster, so the search giant is starting over and will address the issues, which include halving the cost of phones.

Microsoft's Cortana app for Android--currently in private beta--now lets you replace Android’s ubiquitous Google Now feature with Cortana. Huzzah!

Microsoft today announced that it has delivered the first beta version of Cortana—its digital personal assistant software—in mobile app form on Android.

The first non-preview versions of Microsoft's Office apps for Android handsets—Word, Excel and PowerPoint—are now available from the Google Play Store.

Looking at this week's Google I/O announcements, it's hard to miss the ways in which Google is undercutting Microsoft's mobile efforts.

At its Google I/O 2015 keynote address on Wednesday, Google announced a preview release of the next version of Android, the dominant mobile platform. It's called Android M.