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T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data
engadget.com - 10/11/2009
T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data
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Well, this is shaping up to be one of the biggest disasters in the history of cloud computing, and certainly the largest blow to Danger and the Sidekick platform: T-Mobile's now reporting that personal data stored on Sidekicks has "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server ...
forums.t-mobile.com - 10/12/2009
Mobile Forums
— forums.t-mobile.com — Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow... it to lose power. Updated: 10/10/2009 12:35 PM PDT T-MOBILE AND MICROSOFT/DANGER STATUS UPDATE ON SIDEKICK DATA DISRUPTION Dear valued ... (more) Mobile Forums

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microsoft.com - 10/15/2009
Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users: Data Restoration to Begin as Soon as ...
— microsoft.com — Dear T-Mobile Sidekick customers, On behalf of Microsoft, I want to apologize for the recent problems with... the Sidekick service and give you an update on the steps we have taken to resolve these problems. We are pleased to report that we have ... (more) Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users: ...

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Legal Fallout Begins in Microsoft Sidekick Screwup
maximumpc.com - 10/15/2009
Legal Fallout Begins in Microsoft Sidekick Screwup
— maximumpc.com — Like we didn’t know this was going to happen. Last week Microsoft’s Danger unit experienced an outage,... the result of which cost a lot of T-Mobile Sidekick users their email, contacts, calendars and other data. At first it was feared that the information was gone for good--a victim to the ... (more) Legal Fallout Begins in Microsoft Sidekick Screwup

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T-Mobile - All your Sidekick data are belong to ... well, no one ... it's gone!
Hardware 2.0 — October 11th, 2009 T-Mobile - All your Sidekick data are belong to ... well, no one ... it's gone! Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 3:15 am Categories: Mobile Technology Tags: T-Mobile , T-Mobile Sidekick , vCard , Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Cellphone service provider T-Mobile is owning up to what could be one of the biggest cloud-computing disasters so far . [image] According to T-Mobile , a server failure at Microsoft/Danger has meant that personal data stored on the Sidekick cellphone has “ almost certainly has been ...

Sunday Shortbread
The Tech Report: News — Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 7:00 AM on October 11, 2009 Sunday T-Mobile: We probably lost all your Sidekick data Acer's voluntary safety recall of certain Aspire notebooks A 1998 Forrester Research prediction about HDTVs wasn't even close PC Perspective discusses Nvidia's chipset business Toshiba 43nm MLC NAND-based SSDs spotted in retail The skinny on Samsung's new SH-B083 Blu-ray combo drive Engadget HD reports upgrading a Win 7 Media Center with CableCARD from RC to RTM is painless Conan O'Brien talks to ...

Microsoft/Danger: It's a Sidekick disaster, data gone?
TechSpot — ... owners of the Sidekick smartphone that user data, which is stored in Microsoft/Danger's servers could have been lost for good. By design, the T-Mobile Sidekick doesn't store much of its user data on the device itself, but uses the cloud for storing address book information, photos, calendar and application downloads. And while service outages are still commonplace in today's cloud-based services, this could be one of the most high-profile data loss occurrences in recent history. Reportedly, the data loss was caused by a failed upgrade to Danger's storage area network, only ...

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