You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

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Oct 16, 20091 min

Microsoft gets (Side)kicked in the head, Twitter wants to sell you a nice red

It was a weird week all right. Bonehead moves by major companies caused massive data loss for their subscribers. Entire countries dropped off the Internet. Microsoft hired an animated pitchman. And that’s not all. This week’s news also included Twitter wine, unicorns, post-coital tweeting, social-media-induced crimes, and dangerous lapses in punctuation. (Hey, we said it was a weird week.) Can you rise above the strangeness and ace our quiz? Correct answers earn you 10 points. Ready? Have a swig of Twitter wine and get started.

1. Thousands of T-Mobile Sidekick users temporarily lost years’ worth of contacts, e-mail, photos, and more thanks to a major screwup by a Microsoft subsidiary. How did T-Mobile respond?

a. Offering a free month of data to all Sidekick users b. Offering $100 of free services to users who lost data c. Suspending sales of new Sidekicks d. All of the above

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