Outages plagued Danger yesterday as some Sidekick users reported no service to their email instant messaging, and other data services. The severity of the issues varied throughout a 24 hour span, however most customers reporting no issues.

Danger, creator of the Sidekick and Sidekick 2, maintains service for carrier T-Mobile USA.

Downplaying the glitches, a Danger representative wrote, "This morning, some users may experience degradation in service (e.g., connection and email delay) which is currently being resolved by Danger engineers."

So far the reason for the outage is unknown; whether it was part of an attack or the result of technical difficulties. Both Danger and T-Mobile have refused to comment.

The outages are the latest in a string of problems facing Danger and T-Mobile. Both companies have come under scrutiny after thieves managed to steal emails, addresses, and photos from Paris Hilton's Sidekick, and hackers broke into a Secret Service agent's account, obtaining sensitive information.

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1. Posted by Texan	Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:14 am
I "believe" it is close to being resolved, hopefully! But news is may be slow at first due to the backlog of emails, etc that will need to transmit thru the system..
2. Posted by lester83	Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:33 am
the worst is that the dumb smucks cant even access their address books, thats all saved on the danger sidekick server too! as of tues evening, there was a 2.5 day backlog of emails etc. that was making everything go wicked slow. im glad i got a v551 w/ cingular i guess...
3. Posted by anipirakis	Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:46 pm
OK, so I am freaking done with this crap. Anyone with me? If you want, I have started a petition to Danger, asking them for some stuff. Go to : http://www.elgrecocomputers.net or http://www.elgrecocomputers.net/complaint.html to sign my petition! Hope to see some of your names there
4. Posted by SuperFOB	Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:16 pm
supposedly t-mobile has given danger a deadline of july to fix these hacker and outage issues. not sure what the consquences are though.
5. Posted by Pogo	Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:41 pm
i heard all this news is actually helping t-mo sell sidekicks. with the paris hilton hack news, everyone wants the same phone as hers now... she may be dumb but shes got draw
6. Posted by brianl	Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:52 pm
After the announcement that Paris Hilton's phone was hacked into and the story hit all the newstands, sales of the Sidekick went up 400% in the week following.
7. Posted by DarkCreep	Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:09 am
After the announcement that Paris Hilton's phone was hacked into and the story hit all the newstands, sales of the Sidekick went up 400% in the week following. dead serious?!?!? thats amazing. -edited- thats massive advertisement for the SKII. as for the petition, anyone here sign it?
8. Posted by Samsung	Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:17 am
Not me, dont think anything would come out of doing it. T-Mobile already gave everyone a 20$ credit for the outage ontop of all those people who prob received 5$ NETOUT credits during the outage. I know its not the best compensation in the world, especially for customers that use their sidekick for business purposes but its more then they had to do. Wonder how many people left T-Mobile because of the outage and or during it??

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