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Best Buy’s mIQ Beats Microsoft’s MyPhone At It’s Own Game

Friday, October 16, 2009

As mobile phones have become more powerful the need to access and backup information on them has increased. One way to do this is to mesh your phone’s operating system on a central server as pioneered by Danger’s Sidekick and emulated by Google’s Android and Palm’s WebOS. If something happens on the phone, it’s automatically [...]

mIQ: Best Buy’s Cloud-based Sync & Backup

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Vendors like Apple and Google recognize that the cloud is central to the mobile experience. Without the ability to access ones data, sync to the desktop, laptop netbook (and soon, a tablet?) with our mobile smartphones whether we’re stationary or mobile, our digital life is fraught with nothing but frustration. The center of the action [...]

Minnov8 Gang #43: Tech Stuff & Mobile Trends

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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For half of the show, the Gang discusses several tech topics and then welcomes Lisa Foote, CEO/cofounder of Kwingo.net, the mobile solutions company here in the Twin Cities, to talk about “Mobile Trends to Watch“, a key trend since the I.T. consulting and analyst firm, Gartner, predicts that in 2012, smartphone sales will reach over [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast from Savage Depot

Friday, July 10, 2009

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We talk Google Chrome OS, Best Buy’s Sr. Director of Emerging Media job posting now on their IdeaX site, and much more. Recorded at the Savage Depot coffee shop, a fabulous coffee, wine and food spot (with *really* fast wifi, fun historical photos and an aesthetically pleasing spot) alongside Hwy 13 in Savage, MN (Note: [...]

Minnov8 Gang 41: What if George had an iPhone?

Friday, July 3, 2009

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On this week’s show — done one day before our usual Saturday recording due to the 4th of July — we talk about the Social Media Breakfast event and a host of other interesting tech topics. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Discussed during the show notes: + Social Media [...]

Best Buy at Google I/O

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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Best Buy’s Ben Hedrington and Curtis Thompson were out at Google I/O (Google’s developer conference held May 27 – 28, 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco) and were grabbed on the floor at “The Developer Sandbox” to briefly describe how Best Buy is leveraging the Google App Engine. Google describes the Sandbox: “The Developer [...]

Best Buy CMO on the Cluetrain

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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Interesting to see how Best Buy CMO, Barry Judge, tells the story of how Best Buy’s marketing capability talks (and listens) to its customers. Can you say, “Barry’s on the Cluetrain?” Check out his blog too.

Best Buy Challenges You to Remix

Saturday, April 25, 2009

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Anyone born in 1978, and now in their early thirties, never knew a time when there weren’t mainstream personal computers. For the most part, those who entered this world in the late 1980′s (and are in their twenties like my daughter), haven’t lived in a time when PC’s weren’t in their school or at home, [...]

It Was Cloud Week in Minneapolis, and All the Cool Kids (and Old Guys!) Were There

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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[Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the CloudAve blog.] What a gorgeous spring week it was in Minnesota last week: clear, sunny, even sneaking into the ’70s. The only “clouds” in sight were the proponents and would-be adopters of the latest, new hotness in enterprise computing. Two events, on Wednesday and Saturday, attracted [...]

Minneapolis Phizzpop Winners & Best Buy Remix at SXSW

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Minnov8′s Phil Wilson grabbed a couple of interviews this evening at South by Southwest (SXSW) with Phizzpop winners Tom O’Neill of SierraBravo and Dave Annis of Zeus Jones…and later with Kevin Matheny, Senior E-business Architect on the Best Buy’s Remix initiative:

Tag Archive | "Best Buy"

Best Buy’s mIQ Beats Microsoft’s MyPhone At It’s Own Game

mIQ: Best Buy’s Cloud-based Sync & Backup

Minnov8 Gang #43: Tech Stuff & Mobile Trends

Minnov8 Gang Podcast from Savage Depot

Minnov8 Gang 41: What if George had an iPhone?

Best Buy at Google I/O

Best Buy CMO on the Cluetrain

Best Buy Challenges You to Remix

It Was Cloud Week in Minneapolis, and All the Cool Kids (and Old Guys!) Were There

Minneapolis Phizzpop Winners & Best Buy Remix at SXSW

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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