Microsoft to buy Danger | Small News:: Microsoft has agreed to buy software firm Danger Inc, maker of T-Mobiles SideKick web phone.In a statement,Microsoft said that the Danger team has a deep http://www.small-news.com/smallnews/technology/microsoft-to-buy-danger.htm/HOME | Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valleybased Danger, maker of the software that drives T-Mobile's Sidekick Web phone and runs Google's new mobile venture.
Microsoft did not disclose the purchase price on Monday for privately held Danger.
The company, co-founded by Andy Rubin, specializes in software and services designed for the mobile Internet and is best known for the Sidekick, also known as the Hiptop.
Microsoft to unveil software for PDAs / OS designed to rival Palm:: Palm in enterprise, said Ken Dulaney, a mobile computing analyst at Gartner Inc., a market research firm. When you can buy into the whole story, its http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/0U91088.DTL&type=printableHOME | Microsoft : Mobile Industry Review:: Microsoft has added another firm to its mobile arsenal, announcing this week Tags: danger • interface • Microsoft • windows mobile http://www.smstextnews.com/tag/microsoftHOME | "With all the excitement about what's going on in the company right now, this is critical to our future and decisive for our future," said Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of entertainment and devices.
"It completes the picture for us in terms of making the transition from just being on the business side of things to being on the consumer side of things," he told a news conference at the Mobile World Congress wireless fair in Barcelona.
Oracle Buys Dutch Software Firm Moniforce:: DNS Flaw Underscores Danger of Taking Web Se - Opengear Console Server Revamps KVM Gear Learn about the software-based VoIP solution from Microsoft. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/Oracle-Buys-Dutch-Software-Firm-Moniforce/HOME | Microsoft did not take questions on Yahoo's rejection of its cash-and-shares takeover bid, now valued at $42 billion.
Yahoo lags behind Google in desktop computer Web search but is making strides in mobile search and other mobile services.
Google also created waves at Mobile World Congress on Monday, as several of its partners demonstrated prototypes of its mobile phone software platform, Android.
The Android project is being led by Rubin and is beginning to have a disruptive influence on traditional relationships among telecom carriers, handset makers, software developers and consumers.
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