Though refusal in its $44.6-billion offer to purchase Yahoo!, Microsoft’s fresh announcement that it is purchasing Palo Alto-based mobile phone maker Danger is appearing to challenge Google’s open-source Android mobile stand, says analyst Ovum. Danger is the company following the T-Mobile Sidekick, a well-liked device in the United States, which could manage e-mail, surfing Internet and IM like the Blackberry, even though it is geared up more towards clients rather than business users.

Tony Cripps, senior Ovum analyst, believes Microsoft has its view on the wireless consumer market and the Danger buyout raises questions on how it plans to use the latter are knowledge alongside with its Windows Mobile platform.

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