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Comment Re:When users complain (Score 1) 487

by sdbrown on Friday March 16, 2007 @04:31PM (#18380021) Attached to: Do You Allow Webmail Use on Your Network?

Right now, all of your users think you're an asshole and many of them are thinking of ways to get around your roadblocks, except for the people who are already doing stuff under your radar. I'm surprised nobody's given you 120V straight to the RJ45 already.

Google Answers Closing Up Shop 145

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 30, 2006 @04:10PM from the now-how-will-we-know-things dept.

EricTheGreen writes "It isn't often that Google completely kills a product, which makes the announcement of the end of Google Answers noteworthy. I find it particularly interesting, given that there's clearly a market for this service. Yahoo!'s offering continues to flourish, it seems ... so what made Yahoo's service more attractive than Google's?" From the blog post: "Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here. The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page, and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4 months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering what questions are on people's minds. Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn't drink water emitted by your air conditioner. Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire."

Apples Are For Grannies? 432

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 30, 2006 @03:32PM from the all-named-smith dept.

RoboJock writes "So much for Justin Long — the young, hip 'n' trendy face of the Apple Mac (as seen in the 'Mac vs. PC' ads) is even further removed from the average Mac owner than everyone suspected... By three or four decades. According to research discussed at Silicon.com, 'nearly half of Mac owners are 55 and older — that's almost double the share for average home-PC users.' It seems the young guns don't have the extra cash to stump up for smooth shiny aesthetics." From the article: "For the digital youth, high-street box shifter Gateway is the brand of choice, taking the number-one slot among PC buyers aged between 18 and 25. Dan Ness, principal at MetaFacts, said in a statement: 'Apple can claim long-time loyalists but its future among the young technoliterati is an interesting dynamic.'"

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