ND Technologies

I wrote this article, over at EnConnected, mainly in response to all of the hullaballoo surrounding the announcement of current Windows Phone devices not being upgraded to Windows Phone 8.

Many folks were very irritated and upset by this. In some ways, I really understand. However, in my opinion, there is no one but themselves to blame for it.

Head over to EnConnected to read why.

**EDIT** By reading the text of this post, you can safely assume that this is a rather dated post from one of my other blogs, but thought I would re-share it with you here, since it is more technology focused.

So apparently folks in the Nokia forums are all tore up over “missing features” from their devices, namely the 520, 620, and 720.

http://discussions.nokia.com/t5/Nokia-Lumia/quot-Missing-quot-new-features-in-Amber/td-p/2061872

It all started when the moderator posted a guide as to what features are on which phone, and how to get them. Now for this post, I think the moderator is a little bit inaccurate because Nokia had previously confirmed many of the features that are coming to Lumia devices, with the Amber update.

One example is that he states “double tap to wake” will not be coming to the Lumia 520, which is wholly inaccurate because my Lumia 520 had them right out of the box (it had Amber pre-installed). Considering this is an AT&T branded device, I was actually sort of shocked, because AT&T is notorious for shafting it’s customers on new features for existing phones.

So I’m not really sure what all the fuss is about because (and let’s be realistic here) the 520 and 620 are BUDGET devices, the 720…not so much.

My honest opinion, is that the Moderator was simply misinformed of the feature sets and the devices. Hopefully Nokia will clear all this up soon.

Wow, I expected this to eventually happen, but didn’t expect it today. MS has certainly taken an interesting turn over the last decade.

I personally have felt that Ballmer needed to exit back when they hired Ray Ozzie. MS is a tech company, and they need someone, that knows and loves tech, to lead them. Ballmer is a salesman. He can be a cheer leader for the software that they sell, but at the end of the day, that’s not what MS needs, IMO.

Despite that, Ballmer has kept MS profitable and built new products, and generated a lot of revenue. In short, he’s been a good CEO, by MBA standards.

Best wishes to you Steve 🙂

Anyone noticed that Google has an encrypted search service? The URL is https://encrypted.google.com

Of course, let’s be realistic here. Google is an advertising company, that is good with technology. So how secure is this search, REALLY?

ND Technologies has been approved for Microsoft’s BizSpark program! This is a huge boon for our operation and allows us access to important development tools, as well as access to Investors and potential employees!

Our apologies, but we’re experiencing DNS issues as we transfer to a new provider.

We hope to have these issues resolved within the next 24 hours.

*UPDATE*

The DNS issues have been resolved.