http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/22/ms.chief.talks.win.mo.7.sidekick.courier/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/zunehd-review1sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today provided a handful of minor revelations for his company's strategy in an interview today. In his discussion with Engadget, the executive has now all but confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will "come hard" with elements of the Zune interface; previously, the company had only made indirect allusions to the software appearing in a future update. Most anticipate the ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/22/ms.chief.talks.win.mo.7.sidekick.courier/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/15/ms.may.pay.multi.million.fine.over.sidekick/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/t-mobilesidekicklx2009-sm2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft may owe T-Mobile millions of dollars for its just-concluding Sidekick outage, an inside tip may have revealed today. Like most carriers, T-Mobile is believed to have a service level agreement (SLA) with Microsoft and Danger to guarantee uptime but may have a particularly costly deal with Microsoft. The MobileCrunch source claims that Microsoft will likely pay a rate roughly equal to $7... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/15/ms.may.pay.multi.million.fine.over.sidekick/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/12/microsoft.mistake.may.have.cost.sidekick.service/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/t-mobilesidekicklx2009-sm2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A major, avoidable error by Microsoft caused the permanent Sidekick data loss from over a week ago, sources said this weekend. Multiple tips to Hiptop3 claim that Microsoft had no backup of the Storage Area Network (SAN) used to hold Sidekick information and lost the data when Hitachi encountered a failure during an upgrade. The company may now have little choice but to start fresh and have user... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/12/microsoft.mistake.may.have.cost.sidekick.service/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/10/t.mobile.warns.sidekick.loss.permanent/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/t-mobilesidekicklx2009-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />T-Mobile this Saturday has issued a warning to all Sidekick owners that their online data may have been permanently lost by Danger and its parent company Microsoft. In a note to customers, the carrier says the likelihood of recovering contacts, calendars and other information taken offline by a more than week-long outage is "extremely low" due to an assessment of the server failure. Customers ma... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/10/t.mobile.warns.sidekick.loss.permanent/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/ms.pink.and.danger.team.at.risk/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/microsoftturtle-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft's Pink phone project may be on the verge of falling apart even before its first product ships, according to a controversial set of leaks supposedly confirmed today. Backing a scoop from earlier in the week, a source for AppleInsider says Microsoft has poorly managed the project and squandered the acquisition of Sidekick creator Danger from 2008. Rather than implement Danger's advice, t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/ms.pink.and.danger.team.at.risk/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/microsoft.pure.and.turtle.images/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/microsoftpure-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A handful of images have leaked of what are widely believed to be the first Microsoft-branded phones. The renderings slipped out by Gizmodo appear to confirm the Turtle, a vertical QWERTY slider that also appears to have a touchscreen, as well as the Pure, a more conventional touchscreen with a side-sliding keyboard. Both have a very rounded design influenced by Sidekick creator Danger, which Mi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/microsoft.pure.and.turtle.images/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/28/t.mo.adds.sidekick.sync/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/t-mobilesidekicklx2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />T-Mobile on Tuesday announced it has made a new Sidekick Sync application for its Sidekick LX handset, which would now support real time push e-mail, let users view attachments in said e-mails. Now available via the Download Catalog, the application will also synchronize its phonebook with a corporate directory, as well as full sync support via an Exchange calendar and its meeting and event remind... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/28/t.mo.adds.sidekick.sync/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/ms.picks.ad.firm.for.pink/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/zunehd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft has picked the ad firm that will represent its "Pink" smartphone interface, sources said Wednesday. AdWeek hears that a contract bid has been won by McCann Erickson's TAG group, trumping others. The leak doesn't include any details of what "Pink" involves but adds that McCann already handles advertising for Windows Mobile, supporting the phone connection.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/ms.picks.ad.firm.for.pink/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/23/admob.mar.2009.phone.share/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/iphone3g-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The use of the iPhone online has accelerated to where it's now outranking Symbian in terms of sheer traffic, AdMob's March 2009 metrics report shows. Tracking access worldwide based on ad requests, the firm says OS X iPhone grew to represent 38 percent of smartphone traffic and just slightly edged out all Symbian phones, which have fallen to 37 percent. Both are sharp changes from February, when... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/23/admob.mar.2009.phone.share/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/17/t.mobile.sidekick.lx.2009/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/t-mobilesidekicklx2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />T-Mobile this morning finally confirmed the existence of its 2009 update to the Sidekick LX. The new model is the first ever to support 3G and draws on HSPA to allow both faster web browsing as well as to enable video streaming directly through the browser as well as Internet radio and video uploading. GPS is also new and exploits Danger's connection to Microsoft to let users search for nearby l... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/17/t.mobile.sidekick.lx.2009/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:20:00 GMT