Iphone 3g sync and lost address book, notes and all data

Have an iPhone 3G and synced with itunes yesterday and installed all updates. After the process wqas completed, my phone rebooted and I lost all my address book contents, all notes, and my calendar was wiped clean. Can I get some help in having these items restored?

This is the Mac OS X Technologies > iSync forum. You appear to be a Windows user - also, even on a Mac, iSync is not used for syncing the iPhone.
I'd suggest asking in the iPhone forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201

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