Last Updated Oct 12, 2009

Well we have yet another fail in the world of mobile phones and technology this week. On the heels of news that Google's Android may have issues, we now learn that T-Mobile has a huge fail whale on their hands.

T-Mobile announced this week that it was unable to recover Sidekick data after a server failed at 'Danger', a Microsoft subsidiary. Basically this means anything that you didn't store on your Sidekick, but kept in the "cloud" is lost forever.

"Based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger," in a statement from T-Mobile.

All of this "cloud computing" and "cloud storage" is becoming a huge thing now and with this kind of blow, it weakens the whole picture a bit. Millions of people rely on these types of servers to keep our data safe, this will definitely make me think twice about what I store where.

"We appreciate your patience as Microsoft/Danger continues to work on maintaining platform stability, and restoring all services for our Sidekick customers." Really?