It’s been a very eventful week for mobile industry. The entire saga of Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo! is primarily about eyeballs, advertising and getting a (bigger) foothold in the mobile world.

Microsoft buys Danger

Microsoft isn’t betting everything on Yahoo, though. It announced that it is acquiring Danger, maker of the Hiptop (known as the Danger Sidekick). Microsoft is quite strong in the business sector with Windows Mobile, but is relatively weak in the consumer side. Danger has always been able to come up with “hip” hardware, but have suffered several high-profile system failures.

Android SDK
Google has released the latest version of the Android Software Development Kit, m5-rc14. There are lots of new features including an updated user interface, geo-coding and extended support for multimedia formats. The following video shows some of the new user interface.

Android is definitely a work in progress, but it’s already shaping up nicely. The user interface is still very reminiscent of the iPhone, though.

Apple iPhone in Austria

Speaking of the iPhone, Apple’s next destination is Austria. T-Mobile will be offering the device in Austria, which is just the fifth country that the iPhone will be released in. The iPhone not surprisingly came up first in cellphone satisfaction, as reported by ChangeWave Research. Where does Palm rank in that survey? It came up last, even after counting LG and Sanyo.

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