Google Voice Now Gives Priority to Students 66
theodp writes "Holy Logan's Run, Batman! Google on Friday began giving students priority access to its Google Voice service, which has remained in a closed beta since its transition from GrandCentral in March of last year. Typically, invites for the service can take anywhere from a few hours to several months to arrive after a user signs up. But Google is now promising students who cough up an .edu e-mail address access to the service within 24 hours. Good thing CMU closes e-mail accounts after graduation, or old fuddy-duddy alums like Brian Reid might try to sneak in!"
Re:World is not US of A (Score:2, Insightful)
the first one's always free (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess it's like Facebook: target the young crowds, who then grow up thinking privacy policies unimportant when they enter the workplace.
How is this not? (Score:3, Insightful)
One of the biggest IT companies in existance practically introduces a new service (Yeah, it existed before but was pretty unpractical due to those long registering times) for students (A huge amount of us students read this site, you know...)... How is this not exactly the type of news that SlashDot is for? Besides, it is not as if today would have been extraordinarily busy news day or anything. If you don't find it interesting, why waste your time with commenting? Not that you would have spent a lot of time for that as you didn't really write any arguments or such... Yeah. I'm getting pretty annoyed to people karmawhoring with the "How is this news worthy?" comment which you can find on practically every article on SlashDot. I would think of it as a running joke if those wouldn't get flagged +5 insightful pretty much every time.
Aaaaaanyways. Yeah, its nice that google does that. I would have hoped for something more sophisticated than just checking for .edu addresses, though. Not all students receive such (well, at least not outside USA. I don't know if all universities there use the .edu domain).
Re:the first one's always free (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually, I'd rather Google's privacy policy for Voice http://www.google.com/googlevoice/privacy-policy.html [google.com] over Facebook's privacy policy any day of the week.