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Not all is lost on the Sidekick: contacts recouped
Quick ReadMicrosoft says it is restoring lost contacts from Sidekick phones
Photo credit: AP | FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2009 file photo, students use their T-Mobile Sidekicks at Boston Arts Academy in Boston. Microsoft Corp., whose Danger Inc. subsidiary makes the Sidekick phones that are sold through T-Mobile USA, on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 said it recovered "most, if not all" of the missing data and will restore it as soon as it validates the information. Microsoft also apologized for the glitch. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, file)
NEW YORK (AP) — T-Mobile Sidekick phones that lost the information stored on them now can at least get the contact lists back.
Phone numbers, photos and other personal data started disappearing from Sidekick phones a week and half ago, because of a breakdown of servers run by Microsoft Corp., which owns the Sidekick maker and runs its data services.
Now Microsoft has a partial save in...
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