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T-Mobile announced it will no longer sell the Sidekick LX or Sidekick 2008, though it will continue to support customers who use these phones. The Sidekick is made by a subsidiary of Microsoft which is focusing its energies on Windows Phone 7. – T-Mobile will no longer sell the Sidekick LX or Sidekick 2008 not at... 

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, stating the obvious for emphasis, called the Sidekick outage ‘not good,’ but said he thinks all data will be recovered and that Microsoft will need to repair confidence as it ramps up its hosted services. Original post: Ballmer: Sidekick outage ‘not good’  Read More →

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. See original here:  Microsoft apologizes, recovers most Sidekick data  Read More →

How much is your time worth? See the original post here: T-Mobile’s $100 Apology Angers Sidekick Victims  Read More →

A blogger quotes inside sources who say the Sidekick meltdown was the result of sabotage given the improbability that anyone would attempt a system update without backing up data. See the rest here:  Sidekick implosion: Was it sabotage?  Read More →

Things are looking a bit brighter for some T-Mobile Sidekick owners, as some people are reporting the return of lost data. See the original post: T-Mobile Will Compensate Sidekick Users  Read More →

AVG Technologies is offering a free tool to protect Twitter users from malicious sites that lurk behind shortened URLs. Go here to see the original: Free tool protects Twitter users from malware hiding behind tiny URLs  Read More →

What was essentially a typo last night resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden — every address with a .se top-level down name. See the rest here:  Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet  Read More →