T-Mobile and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said on Saturday that personal information that had disappeared from some customers' Sidekick mobile devices was almost certainly lost and apologized for the incident. Read More
The amount of data and number of users affected wasn't disclosed by Microsoft or T-Mobile, but the Sidekick support forums are buzzing with pleas from users looking for tips on how to restore their devices or get their data back.Read More
There’s a been a trend recently in which every outage of a web-enabled service is interpreted by the tech media as a reflection of the reliability (or lack thereof) of cloud computing. This in turn has prompted defensive reactions from some cloud technologists and bloggers, who counter that these incidents aren’t “cloud failures” at all and have nothing to do with whether cloud computing is safe.Read More
T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger have told Sidekick users who have been suffering for a data outage this week that their data is gone for good. So far, tech punditry's read on this massive, high-profile data loss is that it's a black eye for "the cloud." For once, the consensus is spot-on.Read More
