Welcome back everyone, to another edition of “The Roundup”! And Happy 3^rd Birthday to The iLife!

This week I’m talking about Sidekick users having no data, Finland requiring internet, and Amazon giving you your products even faster.

This week I have three stories for you. Let’s get started.

1: From : Technologizer
Microsoft to Sidekick Users: We Seem to Have Lost Your Data
Sunday, October 11, 2009

If your one of the few people who still uses a Sidekick then, as you probably know, you’re having some issues. See, the Sidekick doesn’t actually save its data to the phone, it is stored in volatile (meaning if you turn the power off, it’s gone) flash memory and it’s synced it to a Danger (the company the makes the sidekick, now owned by Microsoft) server. This may sound cool, since theoretically if you ever lose your phone, you still have your data and you can access it via the internet. But that means you’re dependent on some server, somewhere. And this week, that server failed. Danger/Microsoft managed to lose all of their customers’ data. To make matters worse, there only advice was to “not turn your sidekick off” and that your data was almost certainly lost. Luckily, they were lying and managed to recover most of it. However, do you really trust them to keep your data safe? Plus, it’s time to move on from the side kick, I mean wouldn’t you want to switch to the much more open and interesting T-Mobile G1 or MyTouch?

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In a somewhat-unexpected-yet-not-entirely-surprising turn of events, Apple announced to developers today that in-app purchases are available to free applications.

At WWDC this year, Scott Forstall defended restricting In App Purchases to paid applications (costing a minimum of 99¢).

…to keep it simple, when a consumer sees a free application, free apps remain free. You won’t be asked ever to buy something inside that free application.

Because of that, developers who wanted to offer free, feature-limited lite versions of their applications had to publish it and the full version as separate apps, and some previously-free apps, including the hugely-successful Tap Tap Revenge, gained 99¢ price tags to support add-ons unlocked through In App Purchase.

All that’s missing now are paid updates.

Welcome back everyone, to another edition of “The Roundup”!

This week I’m talking about Android is expanding, Mac users (not) switching, and Facebook changing their layout. Take a look, after the jump.

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Happy October everyone! And welcome, to another edition of “The Roundup”!

This week I’m talking about Google Docs becoming more student friendly, new Mac Mini’s possibly on the way, and a Gmail user getting kicked out of their account (temporarily), for no good reason. Take a look, after the jump.

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