[This is going to put a crimp in the efforts to convince people that
"computing in the cloud" is a good idea. MS]
Posted: Monday, 12 October 2009 9:47AM
T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever
NEW YORK (AP) -- Owners of Sidekick phones, made by a Microsoft
subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, may have lost all the personal data
they stored on the phone, including contact numbers.
The companies say the data is ``almost certainly'' gone after a failure
of servers operated by Microsoft wiped out the data. The companies said
they hoped to update customers on recovery efforts Monday.
The phones have been troubled by data outages for more than a week. Some
users attempted to restart their phones by removing the battery, which
erases data on the device. Normally, the data is then restored from
servers, but with the server data gone, the device is left empty.
Because of that, customers are being advised not to let the battery
completely run down either.
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