Danger's server woes leave Sidekicks in the lurch

by Chris Ziegler Oct 4th 2009 @ 4:48PM

Look, Danger, we know that you're hard at work on... ahem, "other things" right now, but can you please just take five and figure out what's wrong with your servers? Sidekicks rely very, very heavily on the ability to phone home for even basic tasks -- looking up contacts, browsing the web, you name it -- and it seems that Danger's data center has been on the fritz for a solid two days now with symptoms ranging from text message weirdness to dead address books and everything in between, up to and including a completely unusable experience. Frantic calls to T-Mobile are resulting in comped bills for some subscribers, so if you're affected, you might want to give 'em a ring.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Software, T-Mobile, Danger

Tags: danger, hiptop, outage, sidekick, t-mobile

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