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Microsoft Says It Can Recover ‘Most’ Sidekick Data

October 15, 2009

The hundreds of thousands of users of T-Mobile’s Sidekick phones may yet recover the contacts, calendars, notes and other personal data that a server meltdown had apparently vaporized last weekend.

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