Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Sidekick fiasco highlights need for mobile backups; Cisco ISR G2 Router

What does the Sidekick backup failure mean for enterprise mobility?; T-Mobile, Microsoft tell Sidekick users: we "continue to do all we can" to restore data
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Sidekick fiasco highlights need for mobile backups

The loss of personal data that Sidekick users in the U.S. have suffered is a shame, but it also shows how important data stored on mobile phones has become. Read full story

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After waiting for 51 hours for T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger to bring clarity, Sidekick users at 8:15 pm EDT Monday were treated to 254 words that boiled down to "we're doing the best we can, and we're willing to pay you $100 to be happy about it." It's not going over well.

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October 13, 2009

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. Developer ups iPhone app to $40 after complaints about price
  2. Microsoft loses Sidekick users' personal data
  3. House decommissions last mainframe, saves $730k
  4. Sidekick users livid
  5. One by one, carriers succumb to Google Voice
  6. Engineers fix shortcoming of firewalls
  7. 7 tools to ease your Windows 7 rollout
  8. Cisco releases pricing for rack servers
  9. From Sidekick to Gmail: A history of cloud computing outages
  10. 'A bear ate my iPhone!'

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