Archive | February, 2012

Minnov8 Gang 158 – Aloha Smartphones & Tablets

25. February 2012

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“Aloha” is an Hawaiian word used both for greeting, or leaving, someone. Aloha is thus a metaphor for both the opportunity and the angst about how to capitalize upon it. That angst many people feel comes when we examine how to publish or develop apps for smartphones and tablets. The Gang discusses the market, tools, and how [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 157 – More Donuts!

18. February 2012

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Once again there is SO much going on in technology that we had to do two key things: have on Julio Ojeda-Zapata as our guest host and fortify ourselves with the (possible, but unlikely) Mobile March TC special gimmee for Minnov8 Gang Podcast listeners, donuts! Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata [...]

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Improving Data Integrity for Analysis

14. February 2012

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The Minneapolis firm Colectica recently completed a project resulting from their third SBIR grant through the National Institute of Health (NIH). Focused on corralling the endless supply of unstructured data through Open Standards like those standards developed by the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), they have found their niche with research organizations responsible for securely analyzing [...]

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My Experience with the Minnesota R&D Tax Credit

14. February 2012

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In 2011, as part of our tax filings for fiscal year 2010, we evaluated the federal and Minnesota R&D Tax Credit. In 2010 the State of Minnesota significantly enhanced the state R&D tax credit, effectively doubling the size of the credit while also providing coverage for more types of businesses, including S corps and LLC’s. [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 156 – Pathgate, Privacy & Phones

11. February 2012

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Imagine what sort of mischief Richard Nixon would have been able to get in to as president, if he’d had the sort of technologies available to him today. The Watergate scandal would have been child’s play compared to the sort of overt and covert tracking that could’ve been done on Nixon’s political opponents with today’s [...]

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Mobile March Grows to Two Days

9. February 2012

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Mobile, mobile, mobile. If you had to give advice to some kid you were mentoring regarding an industry they should focus on with their career, anything mobile would be great advice. We humans are not going to get less mobile (though our waistlines might state otherwise) and new mobile devices, apps, and ways to connect [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 155 – It’s the Data

4. February 2012

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Publisher and tech visionary, Tim O’Reilly, has repeatedly said that “Data is the Intel Inside“. O’Reilly was referring, of course, to Intel’s famous “Intel Inside” ad campaign touting the importance of their chips, mainly since chips are invisible inside a computer or device and it’s easy for competitors to market their chips as being equal [...]

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MN Attorney General on Cramming Scamming

3. February 2012

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Here is a followup to the post, “Mobile Text Message “Cramming” Scam” since I’ve received a response, embedded below, from an assistant with the State of Minnesota Attorney General’s office. The AG’s letter below had four key responses: Yes, I was a “victim” of cramming and it is an old scam, with players in the game [...]

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