Last week we told you that due to server problems, T-Mobile had lost almost all of the personal data stored on Sidekicks everywhere. Today, we have some brighter news whih Microsoft’s Roz Ho tells us about below:

We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those  Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage.  We plan to begin restoring users’ personal data as soon as possible, starting with personal contacts, after we have validated the data and our restoration plan. We will then continue to work around the clock to restore data to all affected users, including calendar, notes, tasks, photographs and high scores, as quickly as possible.

We now believe that data loss affected a minority of Sidekick users.  If your Sidekick account was among those affected, please continue to log into these forums for the latest updates about when data restoration will begin, and any steps you may need to take. We will work with T-Mobile to post the next update on data restoration timing no later than Saturday.

So folks, if your Sidekick was affected, did you get your data back? Let us know in the comments.

via t-mobile

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iPhones as data center servers? Well thanks to this new app over at the Apple app store, it can happen. Thanks to the development team of FreeBit Co., Ltd., ServersMan@iPhone is the world’s first product that lets users build their own “Personal Data Center” in just 5 minutes.

First released in Japan on Feb. 4, ServersMan was soon in the spotlight in over 10 countries, including the U.S., widely featured in the media and on blogs, even though at that time it has been distributed only in Japan. Requests for overseas service continue to flow in, and FreeBit is pleased to announce that the internationalized version, 1.1b, is now available at the Apple App Store in the U.S.

Installing ServersMan transforms a mobile phone from a client device into a powerful server system that can draw on vast amounts of computing resources all over the world, since mobile phones are today the most widespread internet access devices on the earth.

FreeBit utilizes its original technology, “Emotion Link (*1)”, to build a entirely new cloud environment that crystallizes the company’s driving vision of “Smart Infrastructure”: the creation of future infrastructures with the power to solve serious problems confronting the IT industry today, including growing demand for electricity and a lack of IPv4 addresses.

(Source) Press

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