Published October 13, 2009, 08:09 AM

Contacts vanish from Sidekick phones

Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.

NEW YORK (AP) — Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.

The phones are made by a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, which says many Sidekick owners’ information is “almost certainly” gone. T-Mobile is offering customers $20 to refund the cost of one month of data usage on the phone.

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