<b style="color:#900;">roundup</b> A prolonged outage for users of T-Mobile's Sidekick device gets even worse as Microsoft's Danger unit says that their lost Sidekick data may be gone forever.
A prolonged outage for users of T-Mobile's Sidekick device gets even worse as Microsoft's Danger unit says that their lost Sidekick data may be gone forever.
Recent problems with the smartphone, long popular in the deaf community, leave many users frustrated and sizing up alternatives.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 15, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
In a letter to customers, the software maker said that it thinks only a minority of customers will end up losing any data.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 15, 2009 1:00 AM PDT
Various legal actions claim negligence on the part of Microsoft and T-Mobile led to the recent cell phone woes.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 14, 2009 4:04 PM PDT
The Sidekick outage shows that management hasn't caught up with the cloud, not that network storage is unreliable.
(Posted in Rafe's Radar by Rafe Needleman) October 12, 2009 10:32 PM PDT
Microsoft and Danger remain largely silent as to both what led to a massive data loss as well as what it plans to do to try to make things right, not to mention what this will all mean for the future of the device.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 12, 2009 4:39 PM PDT
The wireless carrier says "recent efforts indicate the prospects of recovering some lost content may now be possible." Those who suffer permanent data loss will get $100.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 12, 2009 6:01 PM PDT
Amid a massive failure that led to data loss for owners of the the gadgets, the wireless carrier stops selling new devices online and at its stores.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 12, 2009 10:11 AM PDT
In the wake of a massive data loss, tales of woe are coming in from those whose devices have suffered a wicked case of amnesia.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 12, 2009 9:29 AM PDT
Although Microsoft inherited Danger's service, this week's massive failure could call into question the broader reliability of depending on keeping data in Redmond's cloud.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 10, 2009 3:26 PM PDT
T-Mobile issues apology to users, saying whatever contacts, calendar info, and other data that are currently missing from their Sidekicks are likely to be lost forever.
(Posted in Crave by Matt Hickey) October 10, 2009 1:40 PM PDT
Outage that began Friday knocked out data service. Microsoft, whose Danger subsidiary powers the Sidekick service, says it has restored service for "critical applications."
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 6, 2009 11:57 AM PDT
