Protect Android OS by buying IBM Patents

Mutual launched a patent lawsuit against mobile technology intensified during the period of 2011. As Apple are repeatedly attacked and products smartphone Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is powered by Android, and Samsung is back with a lawsuit against Apple 3G on.

Even Amazon has to face a lawsuit from Apple because Amazon Android AppStore has a name similar to Apple's App Store.

Google Android is the creator of the company, buying more than 1,000 patents as a protection against him, because so many lawsuits launched recently. 

According to Bloomberg, Jim Prosser, Google spokeswoman confirmed this week, Google bought the patent from the 1023 International Business Machines Corp (IBM) on August 17. But Prosser did not specify how much money they spend to acquire a number of patents.

In July, 1030 gogle also buy patents from IBM and will probably get over 17 000 patents through acquisitions worth U.S. $ 12.5 billion to Motorola Mobility. In the last month Google transferring the purchase of nine patents from Motorola Mobility and Openwave Systems, the handset is manufactured by HTC Andorid to help fight the lawsuit.

According to Google, they have to buy the patent rights in order to protect himself from the feud, and waged a campaign organized by technology giants like Microsoft and Apple.

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Google Opens Androidland To Rival Apple Store

Giant search engine company "Google" has opened a store in the world's first offline retail Android in partnership with wireless operators namely Telstra Australia.

Offline store that was named Androidland which opened in Melbourne Australia. This store is offering smartphones and tablet-based Android operating system. This store is very unique, which can make customers / penggunjung Android experience in the world. This store was designed with the collaboration of Google, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

This step is an effort to counter Apple's dominance in terms of retail technology. However, there are differences in layout or design on Androidland with the Apple store, if the Apple Stores tend to be plain minimalist design that was adopted from the design of Apple products, while Androidland very "green" and striking, and gives the appearance like a carnival "green robots".

This store is filled with the Green Robot Icon Android OS, there are collections of Zone Play Games and display almost any gadget that runs on the operating system "collapsed Green" Android. Staff there have been trained by Google to help visitors in providing experience using Android.

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Android AppStore from Amazon

Amazon, an online webstore that is quite famous, on Tuesday has made the latest breakthrough in its bid to remove a business is a direct application for Android. With one purchase, consumers will get free a direct application for Android.

Amazon profitable for the buyers by providing facilities, where when the buyer will download the software, the buyer can try the trial version to try compatibility on their gadgets. And also give full refunds if the facility is not suitable software within 15 minutes after downloading. In comparison, Apple does not provide this facility on any software purchased through itunes.

Even Amazon has its own web page, to try out the free trial is using a PC. Where the buyer can control the application as the application was already installed on their gadgets, it's just controlled with the keyboard and mouse. But unfortunately, the trial page only for a few well-known applications only.

This free application will run it every day, for example, on Tuesday, a free application that we can is Angry birds Rio, which is an application of the most popular games today, with the title that inspired Rio Angry birds from a new animated film that is Rio, with there are so many applications its benefits for users of Android so real applications offered, and its application is usually sold for android amounted 99sen.

AppStore Amazon also provides applications that can be downloaded with a fast way, which will be a widget that can be selected on Android gadget. Widget will guide the buyer to enter your email and phone number to use when going to download the application from Amazon. So its performance, the buyer choose the desired application software through the web, then proceed by selecting the Amazon widget that is installed on Androidgadgets and download it directly into the gadget Android.

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Activation of Android, Google Reach 350 Thousand each day

Google's Android platform is no longer denied experiencing growing quite rapidly. Even one analyst said, Google is now activates 350,000 Android devices every day.

According to Brian Pitz, an executive director and senior analyst at UBS Investment Bank said that Android users increased from a few months ago to 16 percent when the vice president of Google's Andy Rubin said at the Tweeter in which companies do the activation at that time more than 300,000 Android phone every day.

The announcement came just two months after the head of Google Eric Schmidt said that Google's Android device activates 200,000 per day. However, a Google spokesman confirmed only calculations with Rubin in December, said that currently more than 300,000 Android Smartphone activated every day.

When Pitz analysis is correct, means that according to figures released by Gartner earlier this week stating, Android in a position to overtake Symbian as the most popular smartphone operating system in the world at the end of the year. Where Gartner also predicts that Apple will maintain its position in second place with IOS mobile platform until the year 2014. Apple's strong position with about 20 percent market share.

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