Google’s Android software ‘stack’ for mobile devices appears to be underpinned by a more substantially game-changing technology than at first thought in the form of the Google Dalvik virtual machine.

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 ...

One of the key components of Google’s Android operating system is the Dalvik virtual machine which is required to run Android applications. But now there’s a new open source project called In-The-Box ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myriad, Europe’s largest mobile software company, aims to radically transform Android and the way applications run on the OS. Today it announces Dalvik Turbo, a virtual machine that replaces the ...