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"Yahoo! says it can get the messages back in a few hours (presumably restoring them from backup tapes). But this is still pretty embarrassing for Yahoo!, and it's unfortunately all too common in the tech world. Companies love to advertise unlimited service when their systems aren't actually set up for "unlimited" usage. "
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iForem created an irrevocable trust funded by your purchase making you the service beneficiary. What does that mean? iForem, can not choose what to provide you! You buy the service, and you will keep it for life. We wont cancel you, change your service terms or use deceptive marketing to suggest it will be there for you.
Sure, some services are free. You expect them to do odd things. Do you keep your most personal information with free services? Would you keep your money in a bank where someone could choose what to do with your account? Without your approval? Sell your financial information for marketing income so you could have free checking? I don't think so.
You want a Safe Deposit Box that will be yours with no reoccurring fees. One that will provide you that Peace of Mind where your Important life memories are kept safe and secure. Trust iForem!
Ah, Microsoft. Always late to the game. Maybe it's a part of their strategy: wait until Google (Picasa Web Albums) and Yahoo (Flickr) establish solid market positions, and then develop or buy an (usually inferior) product of their own and try to corner those remaining 10% of users.
This time, they've acquired WebFives (previously Vizrea), a photo/video/audio sharing site primarily aimed at mobiles, specifically Nokia devices. In typical Microsoft fashion, they're promptly shutting down the service (current users have 30 days to download their content) which will probably reemerge later as a Microsoft branded product.
Here's an excerpt from the letter that Mike Toutonghi had recently sent to all Webfives users:
"In November of 2007, we reached an agreement with Microsoft, wherein Microsoft has acquired all rights to WebFives technology, patents pending, trademarks, and software to incorporate into its products and services over time. In order to make our wind down process as easy as possible for our users, Microsoft has agreed to provide us with a license to continue operating WebFives until the end of the year, giving you time to copy any information you would like to keep to your own PCs or another service prior to the end of the year."
Just what the users wanted to hear, I guess.
Because of this, it will be difficult for most healthcare professionals to take the service seriously. And without doctors using it, there will be little reason for patients to do so either. Google may be able to address these concerns in the coming months--perhaps by making the system accessible to doctors, while only granting patients read-only access, with the ability to request changes if they find something incorrect. If Google can solve the problems inherent in Microsoft's model, it could come out on top once again--despite having the late start.
Google to follow Microsoft to market with health records repository next year
By Jacqui Cheng5. LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTIONS - Competitor's SLA
*COMPANY* offers lifetime subscriptions, currently priced at $299.95. Terms of lifetime subscriptions are subject to additional conditions as outlined in this section.
A lifetime subscription runs for the life of the person subscribing. During that time, *COMPANY* will store and host your digital image and video data and allow you online access to manage that collection. Lifetime subscriptions are not transferable, although this may change in the future. If *COMPANY* is to go out of business the subscription ends. *COMPANY* may terminate a lifetime subscription at any time by returning the photos and videos to you and returning your original purchase price, currently $299.95.
In the event of an acquisition of *COMPANY*, change of control of *COMPANY*, significant merger, or other legal reorganization, *COMPANY* may terminate lifetime subscriptions by returning photos and videos and returning your purchase price. If *COMPANY* terminates your account because of a violation of our terms of service, *COMPANY* will not provide image or video data back to you, nor will we refund your subscription price. *COMPANY* may change the limits of lifetime accounts from time to time to reflect costs. Other additional services may be offered for additional cost.
As a lifetime subscriber, you are entitled to receive your photos and video back on DVD once at no cost (US Customers). *COMPANY* will provide this DVD backup for free only once, upon request. After that, a nominal charge will apply. Unlike annual and monthly subscriptions, you do not need to be a member for a year before we will return your data back to you on DVD. For customers outside the United States, a nominal shipping and handling charge will apply. For US-based customers, no shipping or handling charge will apply and the the first DVD is entirely free.
If your *COMPANY* lifetime subscription account has no activity for a period of 5 years we will consider that account dormant and will remove online access to the data. We will then keep the data for an additional 1 year, at which point we will delete your data. Activity is defined as the addition of new data or the access of old data via the web, excluding traffic generated by search engines and other automated crawlers.
You can cancel your lifetime subscription. If you cancel your subscription, we will remove your data from our servers within 90 days of your cancellation.
Another reason we created iForem! We don't use such clever lawyers tellings us what lifetime means.
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Dear Stephen,
Thank you so much for using Yahoo! Photos. Before we go, we can help you move your photos to a new home.
You must decide what to do by September 20, 2007, because any photos still here after that date will be deleted. Learn more.
