Michelle Megna

Microsoft today reports it recovered the majority of lost customer data for Sidekick owners amid a flurry of lawsuits filed yesterday over the recent server failure caused a service outage and data loss. The software giant, which owns Danger, the company that provides online services for Sidekick on T-Mobile’s network, will begin restoring personal data […]

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today reported a wide operating loss from anemic smartphone sales and swallowed a massive writedown from its joint venture. The world’s largest mobile phone maker reported a third-quarter operating loss of 426 million euros, compared with an operating profit of 1.5 billion euros in the same period a year earlier. Before charges, […]

Online previews of e-books and digital texts lead to more sales — with romance novels topping the list of the genres most perused online — according to the wireless periodical delivery firm LibreDigital. LibreDigital, a digital publishing company that also works with publishers, authors, retailers and social networking sites to offer sample book chapters online, […]

Acer today unveiled details of its first Android-powered handset as the Taiwan-based hardware vendor jumps into the explosive smartphone market. After months of speculation, Acer confirmed in early June that it would introduce an Android handset this year. Now today, the computer manufacturer has formally unwrapped some details of the Acer Liquid. Though pricing, release […]

Social media buzz abounds, but there’s another role it can play: counterfeit watchdog. By monitoring popular business-to-consumer (B2C) auctions, business-to-business (B2B) trade boards, blogs and forums, significant intelligence can be culled about the emergence of counterfeit markets that spring up when a new product enters the global marketplace, according to a study out today by […]

Apple’s iPhone beat out Research In Motion’s BlackBerry in terms of customer satisfaction in the enterprise, according to a recent survey. Among customers who use their smartphones primarily for business purposes, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone ranked highest with a score of 803, followed by RIM’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry with 724, on a 1,000-point scale, according […]

The Internet giant today said it will start allowing more people to use its Google Voice call management app. “As a token of appreciation for all of the feedback our users have been sharing over the past few months, today we’re going to start giving Google Voice users invitations to share with friends and family. […]

Nokia’s efforts to parlays its expertise as the world’s largest phone maker into an even greater hold on mobile computing continues, today revealing some tantalizing details on its upcoming Booklet 3G netbook PC. The company today said that it’s partnered with U.S. carrier AT&T and retail giant Best Buy for the launch of its netbook. […]

Vodafone has teamed with EMC-subsidiary Decho to allow consumers to back up mobile data through the cloud-services firm’s Mozy online storage hub. The new service, called Vodafone PC Backup, is available to consumers and businesses who want to back up documents and files from computers and netbooks, though it does not currently include mobile devices. […]

Mobile rumor alert: the BlackBerry Storm 2 is coming out Oct. 28 on Verizon. Research In Motion’s Storm 2, its answer to the iPhone 3GS and sporty Android handsets debuting this month, has been suspiciously absent from the mobile hoopla. That could change before Halloween, as [blogs are citing promotional posters](http://erictric.com/) of the Storm 2 […]

All may not be lost for T-Mobile Sidekick users. After saying yesterday that some unfortunate Sidekick owners’ data, including contacts and stored photos, had been lost permanently during a server failure, T-Mobile today said it may “now be possible” to recover some of the content. “T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger continue to do all we can to […]

Microsoft and T-Mobile aren’t the only mobile vendors moving to cope with some unexpected headaches: Google has patched two bugs in version 1.5 of its mobile open source platform, Android. The software version, codenamed Cupcake, faced two vulnerabilities that could have led to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, according to researchers at the Open Source Computer Emergency […]