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Paranoid Android?

By Georgina Prodhan
February 11, 2008

sidekickdanger.jpgAndy Rubin, the head of Google’s Android mobile phone platform, vanished from the Mobile World Congress wireless fair just before Microsoft announced it was buying his old company, Danger.

When Reuters showed up to interview him on Monday morning, a spokesman said Rubin had turned around and flown back to the U.S. just 24 hours after his arrival in Barcelona and before the world’s biggest mobile fair kicked off.

The spokesman said he did not know the reason for Rubin’s disappearing act. Later on Monday, Microsoft announced it had agreed to buy Danger, co-founded by Rubin and best know for the Sidekick mobile Web browsing device/phone. The T-Mobile Sidekick, based on Danger’s software and also known as the hiptop, offers elegant mobile versions of Web functions. Sounds a lot like what the Gphone would be, if it existed.

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Feb 12, 2008
6:05 am EST

Can’t believe that – everything is going in circle for M’Soft and Google – this contest is getting very intriguing day-by-day.

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