In the United States the Sidekick mobile phone has been withdrawn from sale by T-Mobile because a server fault led to customers losing personal data, reports BBC News Online. Danger, who designed the software for the Sidekick, is a subsidiary of Microsoft and industry experts say the data loss is the biggest failing for cloud computing in the past few years. The editor of Technologizer.com said this was the “most spectacular loss of data on the web to date.”
The failure is seen as damaging to Microsoft because they have been encouraging online services as a cheaper way to store data. Experts say that while data has been lost before this is more significant because it involves Microsoft. It’s regarded as very embarrassing for them and to a worry to their consumers.
Microsoft has said that some users will have lost personal data permanently which could involve contacts, photos, calendar appointments and other personal data stored on their mobile phone.
Source and further details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8303952.stm
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