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Half a million Android activations per day is impressive, however you look at it

According to Google’s Android boss Andy Rubin, half a million new Android devices are being activated daily. Not only that, the the numbers are growing by over four percent every week. Those numbers are frankly astonishing.

Back in January, Apple announced (in a roundabout way) over 360,000 daily iOS activations, and at that time Google was seeing 300,000 activations. It’s certain that Apple’s numbers have jumped significantly since then, especially considering the launches of both the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2 in the meantime, but have they yet reached the 500,000 mark?

It’s impossible to know. Surely Rubin’s announcement via Twitter will set “analysts” a-shaking their magic 8-balls to help them pluck another made-up number from the air (possible answer: “Reply hazy, try again”), but until Apple makes an official announcement, we won’t know.

My own guess is that either Apple hasn’t reached 500,000 yet, or has already jumped so far past it that it is waiting to hit the magic million mark before saying anything. I’m no analyst, though, so what could I possibly know?

Also, Steve Jobs has in the past accused Google of juicing the Android activation numbers by including updates and reinstalls. Given that Rubin’s last Tweet before today’s announcement was 82 days ago, I don’t expect clarification soon, at least not via that channel.

However you slice it, though, those are big — and very impressive — numbers.

Andy Rubin’s Tweet [Twitter]

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A Google Health service has been talked about for months now and once in awhile you will hear little whispers about it. Well, the whispering is back and this time we have login screens. Tony Ruscoe has managed to find a login screen for a service codenamed Weaver. This is also known as M Scrapbook but you won’t be able to login until the service is launched.

• Login: (OK)
  https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=weaver
• Service Login: (OK)
  https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=weaver
• New Account: (“The page you requested is invalid.”)
  https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=weaver

Google Blogoscoped also scooped up some more information on what we can expect to see from the Google’s Medical service:

Users will be able to log in with their own account information and do things such as add a new medical provider, check their medical records or pay their bills.

The product would also provide information about hospitals such as the frequency that a hospital performs a specific type of procedure or which hospitals perform which procedures most often.

I have to admit that is more than I ever expected them to do. I thought it was going to be a type of medical dictionary but I guess I was a little off. Let’s just hope for a launch sometime in the near future.

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We’ve already noted our slip into Bizarro World, a strange and topsy-turvy land where — thanks to patent-infringement claims — Microsoft strikes licensing deals with Android device makers. Redmond has used a carrot-and-stick strategy thus far, suing competing manufacturers (Barnes and Noble, Motorola) while reaching a protective royalty agreement with HTC, which, not coincidentally, also makes Windows Phones. Today, another company joins the licensee list: General Dynamics Itronix, known for its rugged computers, some of which do run Windows. Neither company offered much in the way of details, other than declaring that Itronix will pay royalties, but we’ve no reason to believe it’s too different from HTC’s arrangement. See the press release after the break for an excellent example of terse, unrevealing business-speak.

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Google actually made an interesting move yesterday in terms of how people can collaborate on the spreadsheets they create. If you take a look at the Share tab in one of your Google Spreadsheets you’ll notice a new option towards the bottom that’s new. With it you can share a spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone and everyone which, as Google OS points out, essentially makes this a wiki.

A feature like this is nice because users don’t need an account to collaborate on a spreadsheet. Unfortunately that also means that the URL for the document can easily be shared, and you could quickly start finding unwanted information popping up. I guess it’s fortunate that Google provides a rather extensive revision history so that in a single click you can go back to before the unwanted changes were made.

What I would really like to see from Google is a way to password protect a document without needing a username. That way you could distribute a password to, for example coworkers, without having to worry about the public stumbling across the document. And then you could also change the password at your own leisure. Now that would be perfect for some of the things that I’m working on.

Recent events make it seem as though Google has been showing some love to the Spreadsheets, because in the last few months they added offline support, introduced gadgets, and developed a sweet form system. I can’t wait to see what else they have in store for us!

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Remember that Withings blood pressure monitor for iOS that we went hands-on with last week? It integrated with Google Health. The search giant’s health management portal also paired with dozens of other services (a heaping handful can be seen in the image above) to aggregate and track all of your data, and share it with family members, friends, and doctors. The service didn’t have the widespread impact that Google expected, however, so it’s taking Health offline after the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2012. You’ll have another year to download your info, or send it directly to competing services.

Also on the chopping block is PowerMeter, a free energy monitoring tool that pairs with smart power meters and other energy monitoring devices to help users better understand consumption habits and ultimately reduce costs. That project will get the boot from Mountain View on September 16th, but you’ll be able to log in to your account to download a CSV file. We imagine Health and PowerMeter are already plotting their trip down south, to get in a few thousand rounds of golf with Video Store at Pebble Beach. Perhaps to be joined by Buzz and Wave, in the not-so-distant future?

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