{"id":36056,"date":"2011-10-14T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=36056"},"modified":"2011-10-14T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:19:09","slug":"android-sales-not-hurt-by-patent-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/36056-android-sales-not-hurt-by-patent-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Android sales not hurt by patent attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Larry Page\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/366022-Larry-Page\">Larry Page<\/a>, chief executive of <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> has told analysts that he sees no signs that looming patent infringement accusations from companies such as <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> and <a title=\"Oracle\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/286693-Oracle\">Oracle<\/a> are hurting growth of the Android operating system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing no signs that that&#8217;s effective,&#8221; Page told an analyst in response to a question. &#8220;If anything, our position is getting stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Page also noted that Microsoft is pushing its partners such as <a title=\"HTC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp.\">HTC<\/a>, who make use the Windows mobile\u00a0operating system as well as the Android operating system on various handsets, to sign licensing deals allowing them to make use of <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> on their devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve continued resorting to legal measures to hassle their partners. It&#8217;s odd,&#8221; Page said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20120137-93\/googles-page-says-android-attacks-have-no-impact\/\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO says patent infringement attacks have not hurt sales of Android devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,167,403,2802,123,3372],"class_list":["post-36056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-google","tag-htc","tag-larry-page","tag-microsoft","tag-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36058,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36056\/revisions\/36058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}