Google is adding a new User Experience Director for Android and it’s none other than Matias Duarte, the designer behind Palm’s beautiful webOS interface. But this isn’t the first time Duarte has worked with Andy Rubin — before Google, these two collaborated on the Danger Sidekick. Read More »
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Old-fashioned folks would call it closing the barn after the horse has bolted. Young people are going to call it “whatever.” I just call it too little, too late. Microsoft says it has restored recovered most, if not all, of the data of… Read More »
If you’ve ever been curious about what would happen when a cloud service fails, then you don’t have to wonder any longer. Earlier today, customers of T-Mobile and Sidekick data services provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, lost access to all their data. Some believe… Read More »
The booming sales of smartphones such as the iPhone and the growing popularity of mobile app stores has prompted a renaissance in the mobile industry and of course a big surge in startup activity. It’s reflected in the growing investments in mobile companies based… Read More »
Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry might have all the developer attention, but there are still a lot of people who love their Sidekicks. T-Mobile is going to introduce their new Sidekick LX on May 13. I like what this device has to offer: It integrates… Read More »
Update: Microsoft is in some of kind of spending mood. First they offered up $45 billion for Yahoo (not enough for some!). And then there was that Danger acquisition. But how much did they spend on the Palo Alto-based company started by Android leader… Read More »
Update: That Yahoo thing is going to take some time, but acquisition-hungry Microsoft isn’t sitting idle. They have snapped up Palo Alto, Calif.-based Danger Inc. for an undisclosed amount of money. While they are not giving reasons as to why they are buying Danger,… Read More »
T-Mobile launched the new Sidekick Slide earlier this month amid much fanfare, only to discover some major design flaws that got the device to reset itself. That really charged up the customers. The Motorola-made device from Danger Inc. was quickly pulled from the market.… Read More »
