Erik Silk in Mobile on March 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
While T-Mobile is moving ahead with plans to kill off the last vestiges of the Danger-based Sidekick, it is also going forward with a new Sidekick, this one a 4G Android-based phone from Samsung.
Though it’s new under the hood, T-Mobile took pains to retain as much of the old Sidekick feel as possible, and built in a few new tricks.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 28, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
After May 31, owners of the once-hip smartphones will find themselves proud owners of a cloud-based device without benefit of said cloud. T-Mobile said it will offer tools to allow users to export all of their data and will make various offers to transition Sidekick owners to a new device.
The closure marks an unceremonious end to one of the first smartphones and also means the end to the last product on the market from Danger, a company that Microsoft spent $500 million to acquire back in 2008.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 10:52 am PT
Okay, call it a comeback. The perennial fourth-place U.S. carrier says it hopes to start growing again soon, possibly this year, and hopes to boost its revenue by $3 billion by 2014.
At an investor event in New York on Thursday, T-Mobile said it also hopes to cut costs and reduce subscriber churn, while at the same time offering the best deal on wireless data costs.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on October 25, 2010 at 5:42 am PT
And the hit reporters/bloggers keep on coming at
All Things Digital.
Today, we are honored to add Tricia Duryee to the staff of our site, where she will be covering commerce, online payments, gaming and more.
In other words: She’ll show us the money.
Or
not, in some cases.
Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 5:42 am PT
And the hit reporters/bloggers keep on coming at
All Things Digital.
Today, we are honored to add Tricia Duryee to the staff of our site, where she will be covering commerce, online payments, gaming and more.
In other words: She’ll show us the money.
Or
not, in some cases.
Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2010 at 9:06 am PT
Next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft is likely to unveil Windows Mobile 7, the new version of its mobile operating system, trying to create some excitement around its foundering mobile strategy.
“Foundering” is probably kind, given the innovative strides both Google and Apple have made in the smartphone arena in recent years by comparison.
So is a new mobile OS–along with “Project Pink,” to create a new Microsoft-made device–going to cut it? Or should the tech giant buy its way back into the game?
Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2009 at 6:30 pm PT
Microsoft’s feisty little search service, Bing, has finally made an iPhone app, which is now up at the Apple iTunes app store.
It’s a sweet little irony, since Microsoft and Apple have been frenemies over the years.
But bowing to the power of the iPhone as the premier smartphone out there, Bing has to be on its platform if it wants to compete with Google and others in the mobile arena.
Click in for more screenshots.
John Paczkowski in News on October 20, 2009 at 12:07 pm PT
T-Mobile Sidekick users who lost their personal data in a humiliating server failure at Microsoft subsidiary Danger last week are today restoring their contact lists–but not much else at this point.
John Paczkowski in News on October 20, 2009 at 12:07 pm PT
T-Mobile Sidekick users who lost their personal data in a humiliating server failure at Microsoft subsidiary Danger last week are today restoring their contact lists–but not much else at this point.
