T-Mobile Equinox Makes the 'Dumb Phone' Fun Again
T-Mobile is launching a new phone-- the Sony Ericsson Equinox. Unlike most headline-making mobile phones, the Equinox is not trying to be the next iPhone-killer. The Equinox isn't even trying to be a smart phone.
Microsoft issues Sidekick data recovery tool
Microsoft Tuesday posted a link to a data recovery tool for T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone users, the latest step in the company's effort to clean up the mobile device service outage mess.
Top 10: Sidekick data loss, Cisco buying spree
There was a little bit of everything this week -- Sidekick users got a nasty surprise, Cisco made another acquisition, Oracle had its big user conference while questions lingered regarding the effect its plan to buy Sun will have, Biz Stone insisted he doesn't want to sell Twitter, and the world prepared for the launch of Windows 7 next week even as administrators grumbled their way through a monster patch Tuesday.
Sidekick Data Returns, Users' Time Is Gone For Good
While Microsoft is recovering Sidekick users' lost data, many are wishing Redmond could also give them back their time. What about the days people spent recreating their T-Mobile contact list and calendar?
Microsoft apologizes, recovers most Sidekick data
Microsoft Thursday issued the following letter to T-Mobile Sidekick customers in the wake of the recent outage that looked as if it would result in the loss of many customers' data.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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