{"id":77934,"date":"2013-05-15T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=77934"},"modified":"2013-05-15T19:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:03:17","slug":"900-million-android-devices-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77934-900-million-android-devices-activated.html","title":{"rendered":"900 million Android devices activated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 900 million smartphones and tablets running Google Inc&#8217;s Android software have been activated since the platform&#8217;s inception in 2010, executives said at the company&#8217;s annual developers&#8217; conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Google said revenue from Android, the software used by Samsung and other mobile device makers that competes with Apple Inc, is also gaining momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Google executives said revenue per user for Android applications developers is now 2-1\/2 times its year-earlier level.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 5,500 software developers are attending this year&#8217;s &#8220;Google I\/O&#8221; convention at San Francisco&#8217;s Moscone Center from Wednesday through Friday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Android articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Google Play bolsters gaming features\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/77936-google-play-bolsters-gaming-features.html\"><strong>Google Play bolsters gaming features<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"One billion Android phones in use by 2014: Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/75769-one-billion-android-phones-in-use-by-2014-google.html\"><strong>One billion Android phones in use by 2014: Google<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/74777-facebook-home-for-android.html\">Facebook Home for Android<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 900 million smartphones and tablets running Google Inc&#8217;s Android software have been activated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":73232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,167],"class_list":["post-77934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934"}],"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\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77938,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934\/revisions\/77938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}