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JasonEvans
10-12-2009, 12:37 PM
This is (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/t-mobile-sidekick-disaster-microsofts-servers-crashed-and-they-dont-have-a-backup/) a mobile-device user's nightmare!


T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone.

--Jason "my wife's Palm Treo sucks and AT&T charges an arm and a leg for iPhone service. I loved my old Blackberry. I think I will go that way with my next mobile device" Evans

hurleyfor3
10-12-2009, 02:22 PM
...and if you want to trust all your innermost personal information to Microsoft, there's an app for that...