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Microsoft recovered “most” Sidekick users’ data

It looks like we’re finally at the end of the great Sidekick disaster. Well, we thought we were already at the end when T-Mobile said that the data was lost and offered users gift cards and free data for a month. Now it looks like we’ll be able to put a bit of a happier more »

No progress made on Magnolia data recovery

Last week, the social bookmarking site Magnolia had a file system corruption that caused the site’s server to go down. The company relied on only a single backup server to house the data stored on the site. Unfortunately, the backup server was corrupted as well and the company’s founder fears that the data may be permanently lost.

Magnolia founder Larry Halff explained in a post found on the homepage of the site that he is working with a data recovery company in hopes of getting a working version of the database up and running. Halff is unsure at this point of the outlook and hopes to have a status update by next week.

BounceBack Ultimate Debuts

Today at CES, CMS Products introduced its latest data recovery software, BounceBack Ultimate. Billed as an “instant PC recovery” product, the company claims that the software will allow users to instantly recover their PC in the event of a hard drive crash and with no data loss. Users can continue working from an external hard more »