Danger's servers also keep the Sidekick in synch with a personal Web site that lets you import contacts and calendars from desktop programs like Outlook.

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Google is certainly hoping it will do better than Orkut has fared in the U.S. Users being able to import contacts from Facebook would help with that.

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You can also import all your contacts from your Google Gmail account.

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That's because a lot of core functionality is still missing from the OS, such as the ability to play music files or import real-life contacts, and there's a long way to go if it's to be signed off as "code complete" in October.

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Next, each of the girls asked their parents to export their email contacts to Excel, and, using the CRM import utility, imported them in no time.

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Once the initial import is done I setup my Google account on my Droid so that it triggered an automatic synchronization of calendar and contacts with Google.

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