Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
"In order to keep things simple for our users,
we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of
Service) for many of our products. Sometimes, as in the case of Google
Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may
include terms that don't apply well to the use of that product."
Yep, you read that right. The problem occurred because lazy ass
bastards in the Google legal department have been cutting and pasting
terms and conditions between products.
Mind you, as Valleywag points out,
Google is not alone in the stupid terms and conditions hall of shame.
How about Facebook which still has this little beauty alive and running:
"By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant,
to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable,
fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use,
copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt
(in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose,
commercial, advertising, or otherwise..."
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.