Tag archive: Danger

T-Mobile has announced that it will be shutting off the Danger Services for T-Mobile Sidekick phones on May 31 of this year. At that point, anyone still using a Sidekick phone will be left twisting in the breeze, although T-Mobile says it plans to roll out unspecified “offers” to existing SideKick customers in the next few weeks to get them to transition to a new device. Without the Danger service, nearly all functions of the… Read More

There's no doubt that it's been a bad couple weeks for T-Mobile Sidekick users, with Microsoft and T-Mobile announcing earlier this week, after days of spotty service, that personal data stored on the service had “almost certainly” been lost. But now there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel: Microsoft's Roz Ho—formerly head of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and now corporate VP for… Read More

Microsoft is leaning more heavily into the mobile industry, announcing today it is acquiring mobile phone maker Danger Inc. In addition to developing the fad-creating Sidekick phone for T-Mobile, the Palo Alto-based Danger develops a mobile platform that combines mobile messaging, Web browsing, social networking, entertainment, and personal information management; Microsoft will work to integrate these services with its existing mobile… Read More

Based upon the license of Danger's hardware reference design and client software, Sharp will manufacture, market and distribute jointly-developed products that connect to Danger's serviceinfrastructure — Danger's hosted client-server technology which optimizes the transfer of data over wireless networks, resulting in a compelling user experience and efficient use of networkresources. The business collaboration between… Read More

The Danger Hiptop smartphone is now available on opposite sides of the globe, thanks to new carrier deals recently announced by the company. In addition, they will now support Instant Messaging via the Yahoo IM protocol. In a new deal with ONE, a network operator in Austria, the Danger Hiptop will be available to Austrian customers starting on 25 May. ONE is the second European carrier to offer the hybrid phone/data Hiptop, after… Read More