Microsoft buys Danger, the maker of Sidekick

February 12, 2008 at 3:44 pm | In tech | 1 Comment
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…for $500 million. I guess this was an impulse buy while waiting in line to purchase Yahoo.

Sidekick Blue Screen

M$ scores an existing wireless platform that does more than make phone calls and a company that knows how to make a functional and useful product. Will M$ take the Sidekick and boost it as an iPhone competitor? Beats the Zune method, I suppose.

Gigaom has details here and here.

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  1. ha, that windows crap better not go on future sidekicks. Danger OS is the way to go

    Comment by uh yeah — February 12, 2008 #

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