Q&A Site ChaCha Cancels UK Expansion After Poor User Take-Up
Can a reasonably successful, U.S.-based mobile content brand find equal success for its English-language service in the UK? It’s a question that could have been asked on the Q&A service ChaCha, and unfortunately it looks like the company has figured out the answer the hard way.
ChaCha, which launched in the UK in September 2011, has now quietly shut down operations in the country after failing to find enough people to use the service to make it cost-effective. Read more...
Another delay in domain name expansion
There's another delay in efforts to create hundreds of Internet address suffixes to join ".com" and others in use.
Last week, a technical glitch forced the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is in charge of domain names, to abruptly shut down a system for letting companies and organizations apply for new names. Read more...
Feds prep for e-gov shutdown
If the federal government is shut down by a budget impasse Friday night at midnight, the IRS will continue to accept tax returns filed electronically and it will still process refunds, but paper-based returns won't be processed.
Other U.S. government Web sites that offer electronic services unrelated to national security and the protection of life and property likely won't be updated -- and it's possible that some could go offline. Read more...