For years, Amazon’s Fire TV platform has secretly relied on Google‘s Android operating system. While the interface looked completely different—a heavily customized version designed solely for Amazon‘s ...

Black, unassuming, about the size of a pack of chewing gum: On the surface, the Fire TV 4K Select stick released in mid-October looks just like any other streaming device made by Amazon. Plug it into ...

Amazon is intensifying its efforts to combat piracy on Fire TV devices.

Amazon is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company's homegrown operating system. As part of a project ...

Amazon has officially announced Vega OS. Vega is the new operating system the company developed to replace Android. The Fire TV Stick 4K Select is the first Fire TV device to use the software. Last ...

Amazon’s Fire TV devices have been running a fork of Android since the company began offering these products in 2014, but it’s now ready to move to its own operating system, at least according to a ...

Amazon is reportedly set to replace its Android-based Fire TV OS with Vega OS, a new Linux-based system. The upcoming operating system, which has been in development for years, could be officially ...

Amazon has confirmed that it’s not giving up on Android for its Fire TV lineup just yet, implying that its new Vega OS might focus mainly on low-end or low-power devices. Vega OS launched about a ...

Select Echo Show models can now be jailbroken, allowing you to ditch Fire OS for Android and install any app under the sun.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the ...

Amazon is reportedly planning a major overhaul of its Fire tablets, potentially abandoning its custom Fire OS for a standard version of Android. This shift, a response to years of user and developer ...