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After a catastrophic server failure, T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, have announced that they were unable to recover the stored Sidekick data -  meaning that some users will have lost all their personal data stored in the ‘cloud’.

A cautionary tale of the downside of cloud computing, Sidekick users stand to have lost all their contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists and photos that weren’t stored locally, with Microsoft/Danger describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as “extremely low”.

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