Tag Archive 'T-mobile'

Using technology can put your life — not just your data — at risk

dan tynan on Oct 16 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, National insecurity

Microsoft may have recovered most of Sidekick users’ missing data, but the bigger point remains: We’re deeply dependent on tech. When it screws up, lives can be lost.

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The Year of Data Living Dangerously

dan tynan on Oct 14 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft

For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed and all the rest may have to move over. This is rapidly becoming the Year the Data Died.
Exhibit A, of course, is the T-Mobile Sidekick Debacle, with Microsoft subsidiary Danger [...]

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