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Microsoft's market capitalization exceeded that of Apple today.

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:

Apple shows off

Microsoft Edge was able to play the streaming video from Apple site. Watched with interest at this Apple's special event. There were lots of things Apple showed off. There was the phones, the watch, the iPads and the Apple TV.

I only watched couple of minutes. Here are some stills from the streaming video on my Windows 10.

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The Windows 10 Technical preview for Phones also runs Microsoft Edge. It still has lots of edges (no pun intended) like freezing up,  stopped videos etc but works most of the time OK. Needs switching off the phone the hard way and switch again to reset whatever that went wrong.

Here are some still captures on my Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones:

Nokia Lumia 735 is out, do you want it?

Verizon recently gave its Windows Phone users the option to swap their Nokia Lumia Icon to Nokia Lumia 735. It does not look like an upgrade to me at all. I went out to Microsoft Store in Ala Moana take a look at it. I was fairly disappointed and one of the store staff told me Nokia Icon is a much better smart phone than the 735.

The other piece of information (I do not know it is true or not) he gave me was it was a Verizon specific phone. If this is tru I would avoid it as Verizon does not provide proper support, like asnweering customer's questions. It took almost a year after talking to Verizon to ge the Windows Phone OS to upgrade to 8.1. Probably the upgrade of 735 from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 is less stressful.

I am not sure what features are important for you but there are 41 reasons why Nokia Icon is better than Nokia Lumia 735 but only 13 reasons why Nokia 735 is better than Nokia Icon.

Looks like the capability to replace battery and be able to use an external memory appears good reasons, but with cloud service available to store this capability is not compelling.
On the whole, I would rather stay with the Nokia Icon as it takes great pictures and videos with a view area much larger than the 735. 

Hey, Microsoft OS is so easy even a 5 year old can install

Well, not all five year olds but this kid Ayan Qureshi from UK apparently got his MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) certification scoring 700 out of 1000 at a conference in Birmingham.

MCP certification is qualified using these terms, "rigourous, industry-proved, and industry-recognized exams"

MCP is not an easy exam as I recall. It may be different now and may be more difficult as the OS has advanced in leaps and bounds and the exams might have gotten more interactive.It is  very commendable that Ayan can understand and respond to the complexities.

Here is a picture of Ayan with his toys as appeared on http://www.wired.com/2014/11/mcpkid/. The link also provides more details.