T-Mobile resumes sale of Sidekicks after data loss

T-Mobile USA resumed selling Sidekick phones Tuesday, more than a month after a server meltdown at Microsoft Corp. caused contact numbers, pictures and other personal information to disappear from many of the phones.

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Not all is lost on the Sidekick: contacts recouped

T-Mobile Sidekick phones that lost the information stored on them now can at least get the contact lists back.

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Data and contacts vanish from Sidekick phones

Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.

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"On the iPhone, you sync your data with your PC/Mac via iTunes, and MobileMe in parallel syncs both the iPhone and the PC/Mac with 'the cloud" [at MobileMe].

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There are about one million Sidekick users, but not all of them have lost data.

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T-Mobile's now reporting that personal data stored on Sidekicks has "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."

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Excerpt: Author, comedian and Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange will be the subject of a special on Howard TV On Demand service, beginning next week.

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McCain's versus Obama's Tax Plan

Taxes have been an issue of both candidates to speak about at rallies. Everyone understands that taxes are necessary and we need tax reform more now than ever. CNN did some fact checking on what Senator Obama has been saying about the McCain tax plan.

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Maverick or Sidekick?

Senator John McCain has tried to distance himself from President George Bush by saying he's a Maverick! This has been a recurring theme in his speeches. Well if you believe he's a political Maverick I have some beach front property to sell you in Arizona.

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Indict President Bush

This country was originally founded on government for the people and by the people. Our forefathers had high ideals when founding this country they were fed up with what they had under English rule. Great care was taken in creating a constitution.

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Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey harshly criticized John McCain during his address to the Democratic Convention. Casey noted that while McCain casts himself as a "maverick," he has voted with Bush 90 percent of the time. Casey then said, " That's not a maverick, that's a sidekick."

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IGN has ideas of how to bring Robin into Christopher Nolan's adaption of the Batman mythology. What does everyone else think of this?

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Attention all technology companies: you have three months to get your act together. Start pedaling now because in June Apple may steal your business.

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Microsoft today revealed that it was acquiring Danger Inc., triggering a shift in the mobile phone business.

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These are the top cell phone-PDAs today, but ratings and rankings can change quickly due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.

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Sometimes you need a sidekick to have a successful hero. But, what kind of sidekick that would be?

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Video Footage of a young womans trumatic kidnapping and escape. You have to see it to believe it.

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The dangers of sending text messagtes while driving. Take the poll. How often do you text while driving?

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Justice by internet. Interesting phenomenon.

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An upcoming beta product that integrates web content management and mobile devices. Now taking signups for private beta.

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At the end of 2005, T-Mobile USA had 1,091,000 converged device users, consisting of 724,000 BlackBerry and 367,000 T-Mobile Sidekick users. This represents a net increase of 62,000 BlackBerry and 61,000 Sidekick users compared to the end of the third quarter of 2005.

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