Microsoft Mobile's Worst Week Ever
If you are a fan of the BBC, then odds are that you have seen the dark and comical series, “The Worst Week Ever of My Life.” It is the story of Sam Briggs, a man who wants to impress his bride-to-be’s...
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The industry is still buzzing about the weekend’s news that T-Mobile USA and Microsoft managed to lose the data of T-Mo’s Sidekick users. The Sidekick’s automatic-syncing function is one of the...
View ArticleIs It Time to Update Your Operating System?
I spent the weekend updating my Mac (s aapl) to OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard. It went well, thanks to a little planning and a lot of patience. Windows (s msft) users are facing the decision as to whether...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Most Lost Sidekick Data Almost Restored
Old-fashioned folks would call it closing the barn after the horse has bolted. Young people are going to call it “whatever.” I just call it too little, too late. Microsoft (s MSFT) says it has restored...
View ArticleHeroku Growth Tells Cloud Story, Not Sidekick Data Losses
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View ArticleMicrosoft Pink Coming Soon?
Microsoft (s msft) is throwing a party for the media, and it is widely speculated the guest of honor will be the two “Pink” phones the company has been rumored to be working on for a good while. The...
View ArticleT-Mobile USA To Resurrect Sidekick Brand On Android?
T-Mobile USA will stop selling the Sidekick tomorrow, ceremoniously ending the era in which celebrities and teenagers alike feverishly sought after one of the first consumer devices built for texting....
View ArticleT-Mobile Sunsets Danger Service as Android-Based Sidekicks Beckon
In a move that signals an end of an era and carries a hint of irony, T-Mobile and Microsoft (s msft) today said they will end the Danger Service for existing Sidekick devices on May 31 as the carrier...
View ArticleMobile Lowdown: Google NFC; Sidekick; iPad Jailbreak; Neomobile, Moko Buys
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) picks up the pace with NFC; T-Mobile’s Sidekick; jailbreak for the iPad; Moko and Neomobile make acquisitions. — Google: Hot on...
View ArticleMobileTechRoundup Podcast 237
CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. MoTR 237 is 59:37 minutes long and is a 49.5 MB file in MP3 format. HOSTS: Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: What...
View ArticleIn Q4, Data Centers, Not the Cloud, Were the Big Story
Of all the infrastructure trends during the fourth quarter, the biggest might be the changing shape of the data center market. An area once comprising separate vendors for separate functions now is...
View ArticleMicrosoft Mobile's Worst Week Ever
If you are a fan of the BBC, then odds are that you have seen the dark and comical series, “The Worst Week Ever of My Life.” It is the story of Sam Briggs, a man who wants to impress his bride-to-be’s...
View ArticleToday in Mobile
The industry is still buzzing about the weekend’s news that T-Mobile USA and Microsoft managed to lose the data of T-Mo’s Sidekick users. The Sidekick’s automatic-syncing function is one of the...
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