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T-Mobile, Microsoft: Sidekick Data Gone for Good

By Michelle Megna
October 13, 2009

After a week of service outages for some users of the Sidekick mobile device, U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile is confirming that data that vanished during the downtime is now permanently lost.

It's a blow not just for T-Mobile, which markets the Sidekick smartphone, but also for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which owns the Sidekick's maker, Danger -- which also operates its online services and user data.

As a result, some unlucky users' data, including contacts and stored photos, is now likely to be irretrievable, due to what T-Mobile described as a technical glitch with Microsoft's servers.

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