• eWeek, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:45 PM

In the wake of a server outage at Microsoft subsidiary Danger, which erased the personal data of some 800,000 T-Mobile Sidekick users, the two companies are engaged in a little damage control. Yep, T-Mobile has momentarily suspended Sidekick sales, and they're now swearing that some data may be recoverable.

The personal data lost in the meltdown included personal contacts, calendar entries, lists and photos. The bigger issue is whether consumers will now question the security of cloud computing, which turns data storage into a service delivered over the Internet from remote data centers.

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