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Latest horror of cloud computing: T-Mobile Sidekick customers lose data

I feel very sorry for T-Mobile customers who use the Sidekick. The company informed them today that all of the data stored on the servers of Sidekick’s services provider, Danger (which is a subsidiary of Microsoft), have been lost (what a name – Danger! Seems so appropriate now). T-Mobile has not told us exactly what [...]

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The horrors of cloud computing, Nokia style

A few weeks after posting about the horrors of cloud computing, guess what happens: Nokia’s OVI service, a mobile social blog/networking service, loses three weeks worth of user data. No backups. Ooops. The Nokia blog says: Words can’t explain how incredibly sorry we are for the inconvenience. We’re sorry for the lost contacts in your [...]

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What terrifies me about cloud computing, aka online applications

Cloud computing — online services like Mint, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet, and other online applications that replace local desktop applications — is the hype of the day. Last year, they called it SaaS (software as a service). I guess they got bored with that. I have nothing against SaaS. I use Google Docs. I like [...]

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