Search engine Ask.com is putting a new strategy with a reduction of its work force by 8%, about 40 jobs. Ask will focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
“The company found that about 65 percent of its user base are women, with a high concentration of users in their late 30s in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast,” Ask’s CEO Jim Safka said.
Ask.com was formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California. When it started out, Ask positioned itself as a search engine that could spit out answers to requests that were posed as natural-language questions instead of being entered as a string of loosely related words.
Kingston 4GB CompactFlash Memory Card
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products is upgrading its “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash memory cards by preloading the cards with Ontrack’s EasyRecovery Professional software version 6.1. Kingston’s “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash cards is targeted for professional and advanced amateur photographers. The Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional software provides data recovery capabilities for lost digital photos. In addition, Kingston will increase the sustained write speed on its 2/4GB CompactFlash Ultimate cards from 100x to 133x and will add a new 8GB capacity card with a write speed of 133x to the line.
EasyRecovery Professional version 6.1 provides a complete, easy-to-use interface to recover photos, providing photographers with added peace of mind and greater image protection.
