And when it comes to producing unbiased answers, what's good for Google is good for users, he insists.
This diversity is good for users, but the lack of interoperability serves as an excess friction that is holding back even greater growth.
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Android's data scrambling system was good for end users but a "nightmare" for law enforcement and forensics workers, the team at Erlangen's Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) wrote in a blogpost about their work.
But RealPlayer's new function is good news for users who prefer downloading video files to keep them well-organized and preloaded for quicker viewing.
Rather, it is offering a low-cost cloud service, with reliability that is not great but good enough for most users.
It's good news for BlackBerry users, who had been facing the threat of a shutdown of the service, but something of a bittersweet victory for RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie .
And by sharing their personal data with the websites they visit, they can receive content and product recommendations personalized to their own unique interests, which in principle is good for websites and users alike.
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Maybe we're a bit spoiled with our Treos and our HTCs, but when All About Symbian concludes that despite lacking a number of popular features Nokia's upcoming 9300i clamshell smartphone is a good device for business users on the go, it automatically gets knocked off of our short list.
"We are in the process of notifying impacted users and recommending that they scan their computers and run current anti-virus tools--good advice for all internet users, " they added.
Shadow energy secretary Meg Hillier said she wanted a new electricity market to be "greener and create certainty for industry" and called for "a good deal for consumers, both as users of energy and as taxpayers".
At the outset of any industry, the technology tends to be immature and not yet good enough for the majority of users.
Such capabilities will require good faith from users (for example, to keep public photos G-rated) and could push people to change their social behaviors.
"Facebook did a good job in preparing users for Timeline, but I believe they did a horrible job in developing it, " the 27-year-old said.
As the Apple iOS version has already been available, this new release is good news for the many business users that require a cross platform communications solution.
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Good news today for Sparrow iOS users.
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The good news for Amazon is that tablet users seem more inclined to splash out on stuff than web shoppers who use PCs, according to Forrester, another research firm.
What's most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services -- does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data?
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For the moment, that is good news for Facebook shareholders but it could quickly lose appeal for users and game developers that are locked into the self-serving paradigm.
The focus on design comes from a recognition that products that are beautiful and easy to use can make their users swoon and pay good money for them.
The other side of this equation is that for most users, this is a good thing.
That is a good fit for China's growing base on Internet users, many of whom still have limited disposable income.
For instance, Good Technology reported today that among users of its MDM software, the iPhone dominated Android, with 62% share vs.
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Along with added convenience for users, digital downloads are also good news for publishers and distributors as the margins involved with online sales are higher since manufacturing costs are not involved.
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There may be good reasons for these moves, but try telling it to users who feel like they are taking a step backwards.
As for credit card users, the results were not so good.
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Because for Microsoft, good customer service evidently doesn't stretch as far as letting registered users of its products know about such faults bugs and glitches.
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Office is the leading example of a mature product, one that has been "good enough" for many years, and thus not the sort of tech product for which users clamor for the latest-and-greatest upgrade (unlike, say, mobile phones).
This makes sense as growth in users and new monetization efforts are both yielding fruit and pointing toward a good 2013 for Twitter.
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