Backpage.com and child sex trafficing

Advertising revenue is the main source of revenue for many of the tech giants, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google etc. While the companies are filling their coffers they have not paid enough attention to the ethical side of their business with their supposed strong belief in first amendment.

It is as well they put backpage.com out of business and sent its boss to the jail. Backpage.com made tons of money trafficking child sex and of course paid these advertising companies their cut.  It's not only backpage.com that is at fault but also the big tech giants.

Here is an excerpt from Change.org,

"Two special interest groups, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — funded by tech industry giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others — actually intervened to file briefs supporting Backpage.  These tech groups were actually defending Backpage’s right to host ads selling children.  Amazingly, the CDT and EFF have also jumped into other Backpage cases around the country filed by children.
Support of Backpage by the tech industry has not wavered, even though a 21-month Senate investigation revealed that Backpage facilitated the crimes by coaching pimps on how to post ads to evade law enforcement"

How much effort should it take for these companies with deep pockets to find out backpage.com's intentions?

Here is a video of his sentencing:



Backpage.com has universal converge

Backpage apps on major online advertising:

Amazon is going to sell a lot of this..

Amazon's ECHO appears to do a lot of things for its size, besides providing music. It is desk bound Cortana and Siri and other similar wonder woman voice assistants and probably fortified by AI (artificial intelligence based). Looking at the price ($179.99), it appears to be very affordable.

This is how Amazon describes,

·         Information, music, audiobooks, news, weather, traffic, sports, and more--instantly

·         Controlled by your voice for hands-free convenience

·         Far-field voice recognition hears you from across the room

·         Connected to the cloud so it's always getting smarter

·         360º omni-directional audio to fill the room with immersive sound

·         Compatible with Belkin WeMo and Philips Hue connected devices to control lights and switches with your voice

·         Plays music from Amazon Music, Prime Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more

 More here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2015/06/23/amazon-echo-available-to-all-customers/29149899/

 The device is not big and sit on your table or kitchen counter top. It has tweeters and woofers and perhaps the sound quality is reasonable.

Watch this video from this site:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2015/06/23/amazon-echo-available-to-all-customers/29149899/

 Looks like if you want it, you can buy it now.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X4WHP5E

Are you still using Google Search?

Why in the hell? Bing is so much more beautiful and matches search item-per-item search item, Goolge's search.

Just look at this interactive Bing page. You can just drag the picture with your mouse and get a great view of not only the item in focus but also the neighborhood. Virtual reality, my friends! Here are three view of a Delhi temple. These screen shots are for today at:
http://www.bing.com/

Look at this Google search page, drab and life-less.

 

It was a mixed year

2014 was a mixed year. I lost my brother Dr. Vijaya Raghavan Krishnaswamy, a neuro-surgeon by profession. He left a void that cannot be filled.

I did not complete the book I was writing.

Regarding the blogs I did quite well with a record number of posts.
                                                 Year   Posts
Hodentek.blogspot.com           2013   94
                                                 2014   246

HodentekHelp.blogspot.com.  2013.  17
                                                 2014   56

HodentekMsss.blogspot.com   2013   34
                                                  2014  48
 
HoentekMobile.blogspot.com  2013   13
                                                  2014   56

I started a new blog in 2014- http://hodentekPlus.blogspot.com.

I also found that a certain person was pilfering (http://hodentek.blogspot.in/2014/12/domain-name-service-dns-and-dns-changer.html) entire content from blog, my hardwork of about 10 years. I complained to Google without any success. I suppose this is not on Google's priority. Google wants every post that is stolen with proof of content stolen. There were over 900 posts in my blog and you can imagine the work involved.
 

Learn business visiting places in India

This is a nice opportunity to know India if you are planning to do business with India.
Jagriti Yatris is business school on wheels where you visit the businesses visiting the various places where businesses are located which includes most of the important locations. This coming year is the seventh time for this event with participants from many countries(around 40%) with ages in the range of 20 to 25. This is a nice event to get to know the realities on the ground. 

This is not exactly a complete Indian initiative. It is sponsored by the likes of Google, Coca Cola, etc. with support from Indian Railways. It costs around $1000 (approximate) with about $100 paid by the candidates. Candidates are sponsored based on their annual income.

Read more here:
http://www.jagritiyatra.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagriti_Yatra